In a landscape of new literary awards, what can readers take away from the DSC Prize longlist?

Sana Goyal

· Oct 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Anita Nair’s ‘Eating Wasps’ is a strangely calming reminder of the complex lives of women

Suhasini Patni

· Oct 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

The 1971 Dhaka University massacre forms the backdrop for this novel about life in violent times

Nadeem Zaman

· Oct 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Arundhati Roy and Jeet Thayil on the longlist of the 2018 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Scroll Staff

· Oct 10, 2018 · 10:00 pm

‘The Salt Doll’: A new edition of a 1978 work brings us a novel that should not have been forgotten

Molly Daniels Ramanujan

· Oct 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Kirsty Gunn’s new novel is a clever tale of unrequited love in these diminished times

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Oct 07, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Red Birds’: Mohammed Hanif’s most sorrowful novel is swallowed up by its grief

Supriya Nair

· Oct 06, 2018 · 08:30 am

What was it like to be Andal? This novel imagines the life of the ninth century devotional poet

Sharanya Manivannan

· Oct 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

The JCB Prize for Literature shortlist: This is why each of the five novels deserves to win

Harsimran Gill

· Oct 03, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Two translations and a debut novel on the shortlist of the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature

Scroll Staff

· Oct 03, 2018 · 11:54 am

This Commonwealth Prize winner’s new novel is more than a cross-border love story

Siddhartha Gigoo

· Oct 03, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Increasingly, you can’t match the absurdist comedy going on around yourself’: Mohammed Hanif

Jai Arjun Singh

· Sep 29, 2018 · 08:30 am

In Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s debut novel, new tenants arrive at Paradise Towers

Shweta Bachchan-Nanda

· Sep 26, 2018 · 08:30 am

This unusual novel uses interviews, WhatsApp chats, emails and reports to piece together a thriller

Nikhil Pradhan

· Sep 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A mother-son duo escape to Paris from financial ruin and scandal in Patrick deWitt’s new novel

Patrick deWitt

· Sep 24, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Parismita Singh’s short stories question whether ‘Peace Has Come’ to North East India

Sayali Palekar

· Sep 22, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘Kama’s Last Sutra’: An archaeologist is sent back in time to 11th century Khajuraho in this novel

Trisha Das

· Sep 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

With just two novels, Sally Rooney is fast becoming the definitive chronicler of millennial love

Neha Bhatt

· Sep 16, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This Patna novel is not just about differences and disappointments, it’s a tribute to the ’90s

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Sep 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

Neelesh Misra’s universe of rural imagination does not travel well from radio to a book

Devapriya Roy

· Sep 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm