These two novels by one writer, set in rural Rajasthan, venture into the darkness of personal spaces

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Aug 23, 2019 · 08:30 am

In this novel the British Chewing Gum company targets paan consumers (and needs a cow for a mascot)

Parashar Kulkarni

· Aug 22, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A daughter’s quest for her dead mother’s past lights up this novel that begins with her grief

Madhuri Vijay

· Aug 21, 2019 · 08:30 am

A bizarre double murder sparks the beginning of political mayhem in Pakistan in this novel

Sheheryar B Sheikh

· Aug 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This ambitious novel set in World War II Calcutta misses an opportunity despite its promise

Ibtisam Ahmed

· Aug 18, 2019 · 08:30 am

India’s last civil servant recollects the bitter fruits of the past in this speculative novel

Varun Thomas Mathew

· Aug 16, 2019 · 08:30 am

A Calcutta nightclub and its singers star in this World War II novel of love under colonialism

Sharbari Zohra Ahmed

· Aug 12, 2019 · 07:30 am

Raga Heartbreak: Singer Shubha Mudgal’s stories from the world of music are fine-tuned to loss

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Aug 11, 2019 · 07:30 am

Colson Whitehead returns with a novel uncovering a brutal, buried story of Black history

Paromita Patranobish

· Aug 10, 2019 · 12:30 pm

This fiction diptych uses Bollywood to capture the story of the Indian republic in turmoil

Jason Keith Fernandes

· Aug 10, 2019 · 08:30 am

Would Donald Trump have changed his mind about badmouthing Baltimore if he had read this novel?

Amitabha Bagchi

· Aug 04, 2019 · 12:30 pm

This fictional biography of a Sri Lankan woman architect is (also) a feminist view of the arts

Sharanya

· Aug 04, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘The Body Myth’: This novel interrogates notions of normalcy in love, life, longing – and loss

Rohan Parikh

· Aug 03, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Like its country of origin, ‘Babu Bangladesh’ is a polyphonous enigma, masquerading as a novel

Arnav Das Sharma

· Aug 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

A chef unearths troubling family secrets in a post-colonial romance harking back to the British Raj

Shashi Warrier

· Jul 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Before you read Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’, read her masterly ‘Eileen’

Rohan Parikh

· Jul 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

How 2019’s ‘The Scent of God’ can take readers back to two older novels, also from South Asia

Rituparna Roy

· Jul 21, 2019 · 07:00 am

Classical notes and hard rock jam together in this Kolkata romance built around music

Nandita Bose

· Jul 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Ginny Kalra, I loved you. Did I kill you?’ An air-hostess is found dead. Her neighbour is suspected

Pratyaksha

· Jul 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why is Sally Rooney’s prizewinning second novel ‘Normal People’ on everyone’s to-be-read list?

Nishant Kauntia

· Jul 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm