‘Rising Heat’: Perumal Murugan’s first novel is now available to readers in an English translation

Perumal Murugan

· Jul 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel was published in 2018, but perhaps it is best read during the pandemic in 2020

Nishtha Jaiswal

· Jul 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This serialised thriller is the first novel to tackle the India-China face-off as well as Covid-19

Yamini Pustake Bhalerao

· Jul 04, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Kritika Pandey is the global winner of the £ 5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for this story

Kritika Pandey

· Jul 01, 2020 · 08:30 am

Who gets to make the choices that affect an individual’s life? This novel asks this crucial question

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

· Jun 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Jun 27, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A pandemic wipes out most of the male population in a recent novel from South Africa

Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation

· Jun 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Swamiji’: In a mining town, a boy wants to grow taller through yoga. Can the yogi help him?

Rohit Manchanda

· Jun 22, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What we talk about when we talk about writing a novel during the pandemic

Sayantan Ghosh

· Jun 20, 2020 · 08:30 am

Can a glitzy destination wedding in India offer an authentic experience of home to an American desi?

Diksha Basu

· Jun 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Chorashastra’: What if a petty thief is taught the science of opening locks with his eyes?

VJ James

· Jun 15, 2020 · 08:30 am

Jahnavi Barua’s ‘Undertow’ weaves threads of displacement, kinship and politics into a layered novel

Anodya Mishra

· Jun 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘A Burning’: An extraordinary debut novel explores justice and ambition in an unequal land

Harsimran Gill

· Jun 13, 2020 · 08:30 am

This frightening short story depicts what might happen to humans in a post-apocalyptic world

Shikhandin

· Jun 12, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Blood’: When the NRI is caught between a country he has left behind and one he cannot call home

Anu Kumar

· Jun 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

These surreal stories see Delhi’s rickshaw-drivers suddenly navigating an altered reality

Varsha Ramachandran

· Jun 06, 2020 · 12:30 pm

This thriller moves between historical and the modern worlds, linking them through chess

Nihshanka Debroy

· Jun 03, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘A Burning’: This is how the most talked about debut novel right now, by Megha Majumdar, begins

Megha Majumdar

· Jun 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

Indian writer Kritika Pandey wins regional award for Asia in 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Scroll Staff

· Jun 02, 2020 · 07:28 am

‘The Roshogolla Makers’: A sweet short story for the age of the pandemic

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jun 01, 2020 · 05:30 pm