An imaginative Mughal-inspired fantasy novel gives us a layered world and a terrifying antagonist

Ashwitha Jayakumar

· Mar 23, 2019 · 07:30 am

Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is a woman of our times

Sally O'Reilly, The Conversation

· Mar 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

In this novel, something big enough to bite a human head off at one go is on the loose in Mumbai

Krishna Udaysankar

· Mar 20, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘The Scent of God’: Saikat Majumdar’s new novel bursts with sensory beauty but refuses to go deeper

Imran Ali Khan

· Mar 16, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Outcaste’: This novel is based on a 1905 trial of a Namboodiri woman accused of adultery

Matampu Kunhukuttan

· Mar 15, 2019 · 08:30 am

Full of adult takeaways, this children’s book asks that young readers be treated as grown-ups

Anurima Chanda

· Mar 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This ‘story’ by Manoj Pandey is an example of a new form of fiction in the age of technology

Manoj Pandey

· Mar 06, 2019 · 08:30 am

Fantasy writer Samantha Shannon’s new novel places the world on the brink of a war with dragons

Samantha Shannon

· Mar 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Malayalam writer N Prabhakaran’s stories are a unique cocktail of madness, obsession and politics

N Prabhakaran

· Mar 05, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘The Last Salute’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s story of a battle in Kashmir asks again why wars are fought

Saadat Hasan Manto

· Mar 02, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Sophie Kinsella’s new novel shows all that is right (and all that is wrong) with modern chick lit

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Mar 02, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Tell Her Everything’: Mirza Waheed’s new novel affirms that we are all many shades of grey

Sanjay Sipahimalani

· Mar 02, 2019 · 07:00 am

Paul Zacharia’s mercurial new novel features – among others – god, Stalin, and Satan

Paul Zacharia

· Mar 01, 2019 · 08:30 am

Reading list: Seven pivotal texts by African American women writers that resisted ‘misogynoir’

Nancy Kang, The Conversation

· Feb 28, 2019 · 05:30 pm

An eerie walk in the hills comes to an unexpected end in this short story by actor Manav Kaul

Manav Kaul

· Feb 28, 2019 · 08:30 am

A violent crime reveals India’s flawed justice system in this novel about an unlikely friendship

Mukta Sathe

· Feb 27, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’: Krishna Sobti fictionalises her own encounter with the Partition

Krishna Sobti

· Feb 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

This novel about a Kashmiri-Pakistani love story occupies a space between illusion and reality

Manisha Gangahar

· Feb 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm

HM Naqvi’s ambitious new novel has much to relish but its rambling narrative voice makes that hard

Jai Arjun Singh

· Feb 23, 2019 · 12:30 pm

This novel ‘should not have been written, but had to be written’, according to Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· Feb 23, 2019 · 07:00 am