‘Whereabouts’: Jhumpa Lahiri is still asking what it means to belong, though not for immigrants

Harsimran Gill

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In this YA novel, the Rani of Jhansi’s adopted son Damodar has to stand by his mother as she fights

Devika Rangachari

· Apr 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This classic Urdu romance set during the 1857 war of independence can now be read in English

Khan Mahboob Tarzi

· Apr 20, 2021 · 08:30 am

A dead body from the past kindles an enquiry into death and rebirth within a family in Varanasi

Priyanka Champaneri

· Mar 25, 2021 · 08:30 am

Tragicomedies unfold in the lives of the tenants of a decrepit Mumbai building in this debut novel

Lindsay Pereira

· Mar 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

The peacock dances and then sheds its feathers. This novel links the plumage to publishing

Isa Ayidh

· Mar 21, 2021 · 08:30 am

What happens to the family of a man arrested for murder? This Shrilal Shukla novel asks the question

Shrilal Shukla

· Mar 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Unmarriageable Man’: How a successful builder in London is forced to cope with grief (and love)

Ashok Ferrey

· Mar 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How young boys become men: This novel takes an uncompromising look at urban Indian families

Anubha Yadav

· Mar 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This novel set in a small town in 1960s’ India is both a love story and a whodunnit

Anuradha Kumar

· Mar 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Sci-fi novel ‘Lagoon’ challenges long-held ideas of how sexual identities are considered in Africa

Gibson Ncube, The Conversation

· Feb 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Siddharth Chowdhury’s new novel goes cheekily into the world of book publishing in India

Siddharth Chowdhury

· Feb 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A millennial Indian woman is poised to succeed in the male-dominated world of business in this novel

Riva Razdan

· Feb 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel re-imagines Maharani Jind Kaur, scourge of the British

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

· Jan 26, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Avasthe’: UR Ananthamurthy’s novel interrogates politics for its relationship with love and life

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Jan 17, 2021 · 12:30 pm

This Kurukshetra war novel explores conflicted loyalties and erotic jealousies of complex characters

Keerthik Sasidharan

· Dec 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Hellfire’: From a bright morning full of possibilities to nightfall in a house shrouded in secrets

Harsimran Gill

· Dec 05, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Pandit or Kashmiri? That’s one of the many choices the protagonist of this novel is asked to make

Sandeep Raina

· Dec 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Prizewinning writer Anushka Jasraj’s literary debut brims with tenderness and tumult in love

Anushka Jasraj

· Nov 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

In this novel, a young Khasi woman comes of age in the politically charged city of Shillong

Daribha Lyndem

· Nov 11, 2020 · 08:30 am