fiction
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Mythological fiction: This tale of love and revenge tells how Ramabhadra became Parashurama
Ranjith Radhakrishnan
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Fiction: Meena leaves behind her home in India for a new life in Nepal after marriage
Smriti Ravindra
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‘Fear and Lovely’: Anjana Appachana’s novel treats mental illness with incisive humour and realism
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘Chittacobra’ is a novel about desire and the complications of its pushes and pulls
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Fiction: How did brothers Hakka and Bukka Raya establish the Vijayanagara empire?
Buchi Ramagopal
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A new novel depicts the indignities and stranglehold of caste over Sikhs immigrants in Britain
Ujjal Dosanjh
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Children’s classic: Sirdar leads the elephant herd. Can he save them from their only enemy, man?
Dhan Gopal Mukherji
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Crime fiction: British India, 1936. Can two friends track down a killer and absolve themselves?
Sonia Bhatnagar
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Fiction: Indenture as seen by a woman in a British-owned sugarcane plantation in 19th-century India
Joanne Joseph
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‘Industrial Roots’: Penury, paucity, and pain of working-class women are unmissable in these stories
Ipshita Mitra
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Young Nikhil is the voice actor for a hit cartoon show. He soon realises how different real life is
Maulik Pancholy
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Based on true events, a new novel unflinchingly depicts the life of a woman living with psychosis
Sanya Rushdi Arunava Sinha
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Brahma is fed up with humans and wants them gone. But Hemanga the swan has a plan to save mankind
Anand Neelakantan
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‘Moms in the Wild’: This non-murder-mystery and its characters occupy a completely unreal place
Debasmita Bhowmik
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May fiction: Stories set in newly independent India, dystopian near-future India, and more
Sayari Debnath
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Remembering writer Ajay Khullar, whose last book of short stories has been published posthumously
DK Khullar
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Fiction: Inspector Ali returns to Lahore’s red-light area to cover up a young girl’s murder
Aamina Ahmad
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Fiction: A small town is shocked to see a middle-aged couple dating. Will they survive the stares?
Mitra Phukan
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Fiction: The state drives a poor but brilliant boy to destruction in newly-independent Bangladesh
Shahidul Zahir
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Romance fiction: Will the budding love between Ana and Luqman survive the double whammy of fate?
Andaleeb Wajid