To Die in Benares

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 03:08 pm

When I Hid My Caste

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 03:07 pm

This novel traces Kodhai’s erotic journey to becoming the Alvar saint Andal

Tanuj Solanki

· Dec 30, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Bridge of Clay’: Markus Zusak’s new novel is rewarding but not compelling like ‘The Book Thief’

Neha Bhatt

· Dec 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Ten novels to help young people understand the modern world and its complexities

Fiona Shaw, The Conversation

· Dec 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The people of this fictional small town have more stories in their lives than big city dwellers

Adithi Rao

· Dec 27, 2018 · 08:30 am

Robert Clive reimagined: How to use the techniques of novel-writing for historical figures

Alex Rutherford

· Dec 22, 2018 · 10:30 am

This meditative novel about devadasis and the consumption of art is held back by its moralism

Supriya Nair

· Dec 22, 2018 · 06:00 am

One story, two endings: This is how Perumal Murugan’s dual sequels to ‘One Part Woman’ begin

Perumal Murugan

· Dec 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

This novel by a doctor is actually an encyclopaedia of impossible illnesses that people suffer from

Vikram Paralkar

· Dec 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Washington Black’: A novel that puts the oppressed in the world of oppressors and sees what happens

Veena Muthuraman

· Dec 16, 2018 · 12:30 pm

This novel, told by an assassin, is a parable about Pakistan (and a murdered Nobel Prize winner)

Zarar Said

· Dec 14, 2018 · 05:30 pm

An unexpected swayamvara: This novel recreates the story of Amba from the Mahabharata

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Dec 11, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Can the first page make or break a novelist’s career? An editor answers

Pooja Bhula

· Dec 09, 2018 · 07:00 am

Meet Su Venkatesan, whose serialised Tamil novel ‘Velpari’ has crossed 100 instalments

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Dec 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A reporter’s eye melds personal lives with the rhythms of the forest of Kaziranga in this novel

Suhasini Patni

· Dec 08, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Defiance was a strong part of it’: Why Alan Hollinghurst began writing about gay life and history

Supriya Nair

· Dec 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

Author James Frey beats Haruki Murakami to win the 2018 Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Scroll Staff

· Dec 05, 2018 · 01:10 pm

A young journalist tries to piece together the violence of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in this novel

Radhika Oberoi

· Dec 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

A woman in newly independent India struggles with her devadasi lineage in ‘The Undoing Dance’

Srividya Natarajan

· Dec 03, 2018 · 05:30 pm