A Japanese novel about an unambitious store clerk who refuses to change is earning praise. Why?

Rashmi Patel

· Aug 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A chronicle of mental illness or a new way of looking at life? This novel could be both

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 18, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘Sitai and Surpanakai’: This story turns a female rivalry from the Ramayana on its head

Anita Sivakumaran

· Aug 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

In this novel, a teenager tells the story of Independence and Partition as she sees them

Veera Hiranandani

· Aug 15, 2018 · 08:30 am

Manu Bhattathiri’s fictional town of Karuthupuzha returns. It’s still Malgudi for the 21st Century

Suneetha Balakrishnan

· Aug 11, 2018 · 08:30 am

This Assamese novel about Bengali Muslim settlers uprooted from their homes resonates sharply today

Rudrani Sarma

· Aug 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Trying To Grow

Scroll Staff

· Aug 08, 2018 · 02:54 pm

Read these excerpts from Malayalam writer S Hareesh’s novel ‘Meesha’, which some people want banned

S Hareesh

· Aug 08, 2018 · 08:30 am

Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ shows us how society used to view female criminals

Catherine Cox, The Conversation Hilary Marland, The Conversation

· Aug 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The age of autofiction is here: How do writers feel about writing novels from their own lives?

Shashank Bhargava

· Aug 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) was one of the few Bengali writers who preferred quality to quantity

Shamik Ghosh

· Aug 05, 2018 · 07:00 am

This book of gut-wrenching short stories is a testament to how military conflict has bled Kashmir

Akhil Katyal

· Aug 04, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Latitudes of Longing’: An exceptional debut novel that shows nothing (and nobody) is set in stone

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel is a minimalist study of revenge (and features Agastya Sen’s father)

Trisha Gupta

· Aug 04, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘India’: A short story by the Bengali writer Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) who died at 95

Ramapada Chowdhury

· Jul 31, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Rainy day reads: These sharply authentic thrillers place women firmly at their core

Neha Bhatt

· Jul 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Being young and very rich in urban Pakistan can be heartbreaking too, shows this debut novel

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 29, 2018 · 07:00 am

Lessons from Ghalib: A courtesan’s quest to forge an identity in the twilight of the Mughal empire

Sikeena Karmali

· Jul 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year

Ibne Safi

· Jul 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Opening lines: This is how (some of) the novels on the longlist of the 2018 Man Booker Prize begin

Scroll Staff

· Jul 25, 2018 · 08:30 am