What is love between millennials like? This novel might be India’s ‘Normal People’

Arjun Nath

· Feb 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What makes a building go up in flames in this short story? How is it related to a secret illness?

Ipshita Nath

· Feb 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

Kashmir comes to the reader as a series of perceptions of reality in Siddhartha Gigoo’s new novel

Manisha Gangahar

· Feb 16, 2020 · 07:30 am

Indian doctors in the US confront race, tradition and personal conflicts in this Kannada novel

Guruprasad Kaginele

· Feb 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm

In this novel, a British tourist is raped in Kerala, teens are suspected, communal fires are lit

Sabin Iqbal

· Feb 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Citizens of the world come together and move apart in this book of stories set in Dubai

Aditi Chakraborty

· Feb 10, 2020 · 07:30 am

The stir around Jeanine Cummins’ ‘American Dirt’ reminds us who still runs the publishing world

Christine Larson, The Conversation

· Feb 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When the upper caste fears a Dalit’s moustache: This Malayalam novel is a work of magic and realism

S Hareesh

· Feb 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This coming of age novel explores the outcome of gender confusion in an orthodox family and society

Angshu Dasgupta

· Feb 03, 2020 · 08:30 am

A war photographer has to solve his own murder in this novel. But there’s too much red tape

Shehan Karunatilaka

· Jan 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel explores what can happen when a virtual digital life replaces the real one

Jaithirth Rao

· Jan 25, 2020 · 11:30 am

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

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jan 25, 2020 · 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

A battle in Doklam between India and China is sparked by a centuries-old secret in this novel

Ashwin Sanghi

· Jan 23, 2020 · 03:30 pm

This book of short stories is designed to expand the idea of queer beyond desire and borders

Rahul Sen

· Jan 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

An adopted daughter comes back to India looking for her biological mother in this novel

Kunal Basu

· Jan 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Middle-class urban women confront critical moments in their lives in these short stories

Rituparna Roy

· Jan 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When students rise in protest, in the pages of novels: Six books to read

Anu Kumar

· Jan 11, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘I wrote my novel in real time’: Meena Kandasamy on her uniquely structured ‘Exquisite Cadavers’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why single, childless, contended, middle-aged women make excellent protagonists

Emily Bernhard Jackson, The Conversation

· Jan 10, 2020 · 05:30 pm