In Jeet Thayil’s ‘Low’, a man goes on a drug-addled Bombay odyssey after his wife’s suicide

Jai Arjun Singh

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

With ‘Low’, Jeet Thayil returns to novelising the most searing experiences in his own life

Jeet Thayil

· Jan 24, 2020 · 08:30 am

This novel is a breathless ride through love and sex, power and slavery, crime and trafficking

Nirmala Govindarajan

· Jan 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

MG Vassanji’s new novel: What a clash between romantic passion and menacing nationalism can be like

MG Vassanji

· Dec 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

In this novel: What happens when a boy from a good family defies his father to go to America?

Usha KR

· Dec 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Three women in Kolkata are endowed with superpowers in this novel. But they have a price to pay

Rajorshi Chakraborti

· Dec 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

In this novel, two sisters in their twenties are starving in their flat in a city. Why?

Vandana Singh-Lal

· Dec 15, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Menoka Has Hanged Herself’: A film historian writes a novel set in the early era of Bengali cinema

Sharmistha Gooptu

· Dec 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Romesh Gunesekera returns to Sri Lanka, the country of his birth, with this coming-of-age novel

Romesh Gunesekera

· Nov 28, 2019 · 05:30 pm

First read: Death, love, and madness all lie at the heart of Cyrus Mistry’s new novel

Cyrus Mistry

· Nov 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This not-romance between a daughter and her mother is a sensitive study in relationships

Esha Datanwala

· Sep 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi’s thriller: An international hi-tech conspiracy to murder ‘RaMo’

Meenakshi Lekhi Krishna Kumar

· Sep 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

Before you read Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’, read her masterly ‘Eileen’

Rohan Parikh

· Jul 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

This novel about women fighting the demolition of their slum is a story of friendship and resilience

Urvashi Bahuguna

· May 25, 2019 · 10:30 am

‘Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction’: A debut novel that turns into an endless search for purpose

Sayali Palekar

· May 04, 2019 · 12:30 pm

In Tishani Doshi's new novel, a woman discovers a sister who was kept a secret her whole life

Tishani Doshi

· Apr 16, 2019 · 08:30 am

Githa Hariharan’s new novel is a sensitive, discomfiting meditation on caste and resistance

Harsh Mander

· Apr 13, 2019 · 08:30 am

In her new novel, poet Tishani Doshi builds a miniature world that looks like a feminist utopia

Devapriya Roy

· Apr 07, 2019 · 10:30 am

‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’ needs no coherent plot – it is a memory of conflicted times

Soni Wadhwa

· Apr 01, 2019 · 08:30 am

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

N Prabhakaran

· Mar 05, 2019 · 08:30 am