To read this novel from 1940 is to read an elegy to love and longing in an older Delhi

Oindrila Mukherjee

· May 19, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A boat ride with Tagore: Anuradha Roy’s new novel features an unexpected cameo

Anuradha Roy

· May 19, 2018 · 10:30 am

Tom Wolfe (1930 - 2018) was known for his unique journalism, but he also wrote four iconic novels

Urvashi Bahuguna

· May 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

Tabish Khair’s unsettling new novel asks what secrets Ahmed is keeping from his boss Anil Mehrotra

Tabish Khair

· May 16, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Nikesh Shukla’s new novel captures the immigrant experience in the UK through three generations

Nikesh Shukla

· May 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This novel about the Hindu god Kartikeya tries bravely to twist old myths into untold new stories

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· May 13, 2018 · 07:00 am

The residents of an old age home in Goa band together to solve a mysterious death in this novel

Bulbul Sharma

· May 11, 2018 · 05:30 pm

An ancient Greek goddess faces (and solves) modern problems in this novel

Urvashi Bahuguna

· May 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A wry and evocative novel captures the history and spirit of Goa but struggles with stereotypes

Sarojesh Mukherjee

· May 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Light and darkness: KR Meera’s newly translated novel is much more than a woman’s disappearance

Apoorva Sripathi

· Apr 29, 2018 · 10:30 am

(Almost) everything you wanted to know about Kashmiri Pandits but didn’t know whom to ask

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 29, 2018 · 07:00 am

Mukul Kesavan’s time-travelling photographer tells an unorthodox story of the Partition

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Apr 28, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Meena Kandasamy and Kamila Shamsie on the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Scroll Staff

· Apr 23, 2018 · 06:29 pm

How similar was Neanderthal Man to Homo Sapiens? Novelist William Golding got there before science

Arnab Chakraborty

· Apr 22, 2018 · 07:00 am

Detective Arjun Arora returns in Ankush Saikia’s new book to find the murderer of a young Naga woman

Ankush Saikia

· Apr 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

Sumana Roy’s novel offers complex characters that show who we are as individuals and as a country

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Apr 15, 2018 · 08:30 am

Sean Penn, who just do stuff, has written a thesaurus masquerading as an unreadable debut novel

Nicholas Rixon

· Apr 15, 2018 · 07:00 am

On Baisakhi, two classic short stories that capture the spirit of Punjab

Nanak Singh Amrita Pritam Nirupama Dutt

· Apr 14, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Could ‘The Devils’ Dance’ be the ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ of Central Asian literature?

Peter Gordon

· Apr 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

Two cousins battle to save the soul of Goa against corruption and plunder in this evocative novel

Sudeep Chakravarti

· Apr 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm