July 13, 1905: A Namboodiri woman is convicted of adultery and made an outcaste. This is her story

Mini Krishnan

· Jul 13, 2019 · 08:30 am

Rewriting Jane Austen is an industry. But this version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in Pakistan shines

Rheea Mukherjee

· Jul 13, 2019 · 07:30 am

Bollywood radicals: This novel is a fictional chronicle of Mumbai’s independent filmmakers

Aditya Sudarshan

· Jul 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

What if Sita had never married Ram? This novel explores an alternative life for her

Aditya Iyengar

· Jul 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Women lead a rebellion of peasants against the Mughal Empire in this historical novel

Amita Kanekar

· Jul 11, 2019 · 07:30 am

Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Gun Island’ is fiction for a new world. It cannot be judged by old standards

Arunava Sinha

· Jul 08, 2019 · 07:30 am

Ian McEwan’s new novel on human rights for machines is entertaining but not original on ideas

Sayantan Ghosh

· Jul 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Neel Patel’s short stories featuring Indian immigrants in America win with their vivid characters

Sahana Hegde

· Jul 06, 2019 · 08:30 am

This novel follows the lives of Punjabi women through Partition, the Emergency, 1984, and 9/11

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Jul 04, 2019 · 07:30 am

A young widow returns to everyday life with the help of her body (and some philosophy) in this novel

Rheea Mukherjee

· Jul 03, 2019 · 07:30 am

This satirical work of fiction about Parliament might be the nearest thing to the truth

Meghnad S

· Jul 02, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel is a wicked study of love and affairs among the rich set of Mumbai

Shunali Khullar Shroff

· Jul 02, 2019 · 07:30 am

Fiction pick: What happened when Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose met Hitler? Read this re-creation

Vishwas Patil

· Jul 01, 2019 · 07:30 am

To admire Daphne du Maurier, the novel we must read is not ‘Rebecca’ but ‘My Cousin Rachel’

Radhika Oberoi

· Jun 30, 2019 · 12:30 pm

A gay Afghan’s search for his identity turns intensely political in this novel

Gokul S Prabhu

· Jun 29, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Drawing the line: This book of animal stories charms with its words as well as its illustrations

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· Jun 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

What is special about this novel of gay love? That it is set in Afghanistan, where this is a crime

Nemat Sadat

· Jun 27, 2019 · 07:30 am

In ‘Babu Bangladesh!’, South Asian literature gets a wildly imaginative novel that defies genres

Numair Atif Choudhury

· Jun 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

What can happen when old friends and lovers from college reunite two decades later? Ask this novel

Devapriya Roy

· Jun 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Tequila Leila is dead, but she keeps thinking. Elif Shafak’s new novel begins with this strangeness

Elif Shafak

· Jun 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm