fiction
-
‘Glass Bottom’: An unexpected, wondrous, and brave new way to tell a story
Ila Manish
-
Fiction: This novel is a disturbing document of the ultra-left Maoist movement in central India
Avadhoot Dongare Nadeem Khan
-
Sunday book pick: In ‘Soldier Sailor’, the horrors of being a mother to your child (and husband)
Sayari Debnath
-
September global fiction: A new novel by Sally Rooney and five other titles to look forward to
Scroll Staff
-
Romance: Can Samara Mansingh get on Sharav Khanna’s ruggedly handsome good side?
Trisha Das
-
Fiction: A lustful boss, a cheating husband, an unsuitable lover make three women seek one another
Anuradha Marwah
-
Fiction: Vijaya and Krishna navigate differences in land ownership, class warfare in their village
Ruthvika Rao
-
‘Into the Forest’: An elegant novel about the obligations to humanity during troubled times
Sayari Debnath
-
Crime fiction: Retired cricket umpire Russi Batliwala investigates a high-profile murder
Madhav Nayak
-
Fantasy fiction: Amir, a ‘Spice Carrier’, unravels the power that keeps the world in balance
Prashanth Srivatsa
-
September fiction: Six new novels that bring stories from a city’s underbelly and beyond the planet
Sayari Debnath
-
Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Peelee Chhatri Wali Ladki’, by Uday Prakash
Uday Prakash
-
Fiction: A couple tries to start over in a new home after their son’s death upends their marriage
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
-
‘A Person is a Prayer’: A moving novel about the aches, regrets and longings each of us harbours
Divya Shankar
-
Translated fiction: Kunjootty is struggling to write the stories of the natives of his village
VJ James Ministhy S
-
Fiction: The streets descend into chaos, turning every person into both a victim and a perpetrator
Sanjay Bahadur
-
Translated fiction: Bengali couple Sudeep and Kamalika raise their children in 1960s’ America
Bani Basu Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
-
Fiction from Bangladesh: Kamal embarks on a boat journey to the floodplains until the war is over
Manzu Islam
-
Fiction: An Indian man and Afghani woman fall in love in 1920s’ Kabul, but a tragic fate awaits them
Syed Mujtaba Ali Nazes Afroz
-
Fiction: Esai stumbles across an ancient secret that threatens to dismantle her college to the bones
Megha Rao