Mythological fiction in India is finally heading off the beaten path

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Nov 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

From Subhas Chandra Bose’s regiment to modern Singapore, this novel follows a mother and daughter

Fehmida Zakeer

· Nov 18, 2018 · 07:00 am

To understand modern China read this crime fiction series featuring a poetry-loving detective

Amish Raj Mulmi

· Nov 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

Kamila Shamsie and Jayant Kaikini on the shortlist of the 2018 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Scroll Staff

· Nov 15, 2018 · 11:49 am

What readers can expect from a new anthology of Asian speculative fiction

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Nov 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What does a 21st century feminist do when transported to King Vidyadhar’s 11th-century court?

Jai Arjun Singh

· Nov 10, 2018 · 08:30 am

Joe D’Cruz’s ‘Ocean Rimmed World’ sails with a community of fishermen in ways no novel has

RN Joe D’Cruz

· Nov 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Former markets analyst Udayan Mukherjee uncovers the explosive secrets of placid lives in his novel

Udayan Mukherjee

· Nov 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A reader’s guide to the fiction and translations shortlists of the Crossword Book Jury Awards

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

Is this collection of stories about death, destiny or Benares? Perhaps it’s all three

Siba Barkataki

· Nov 03, 2018 · 12:30 pm

A young Punjabi man sails to a new life in California in this historical novel about migration

Simrita Dhir

· Nov 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Farmers pour into cities across India to protest in this novel about the country’s agrarian crisis

Namita Waikar

· Nov 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A civil servant struggles to reconcile tribal rights with her duty to the state in this novel

Anita Agnihotri

· Oct 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The demonetisation novel: A finance expert in New York gets an urgent call from India

Ravi Subramanian

· Oct 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘The crux of my novel is one woman’s loneliness’: How a writer recreated the story of the poet Andal

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 21, 2018 · 12:30 pm

From Korea, a fairy tale for adults that makes readers happy with its violence and nightmares

Suhasini Patni

· Oct 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Man Booker Prize 2018: Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’, but big publishers are the real victors

Leigh Wilson, The Conversation

· Oct 20, 2018 · 12:30 pm

A novel about one woman’s life becomes a neat history of middle-class anxiety in India

Niyati Bhat

· Oct 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

A ‘rakshashi’ is released, triggering a crisis in this new fantasy novel from India

Achala Upendran

· Oct 19, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Three contrasting lives intersect in Fatima Bhutto’s new novel about identity and violence

Fatima Bhutto

· Oct 18, 2018 · 08:30 am