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The Independence movement and World War II rock a sleepy railway town in this historical novel
Daman Singh
· Jul 06, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Real estate woes, a midlife crisis and big, bad Delhi feature in this darkly comic debut novel
Chanchal Sanyal
· Jul 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm
A hidden arsenal from the ’93 Mumbai blasts resurfaces to deadly effect in Hussain Zaidi’s new novel
S Hussain Zaidi
· Jul 04, 2018 · 06:30 pm
The Indian exodus from Burma: An Assamese novel recreates a near-forgotten story from history
Debendranath Acharya
· Jul 04, 2018 · 08:30 am
Assymetry
Scroll
· Jul 02, 2018 · 02:53 pm
In this contemporary novel, Tulsidas’s Ramayana is a leitmotif
Amitabha Bagchi
· Jul 02, 2018 · 08:30 am
This debut novel captures family life in Karachi as well as Pakistan’s most tumultuous decade
Urvashi Bahuguna
· Jul 01, 2018 · 12:30 pm
How did the slave Aesop write his timeless fables? A fabulist travels to the past to find out
Suniti Namjoshi
· Jun 29, 2018 · 08:30 am
Indian writer Sagnik Datta wins regional award for Asia in 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Scroll Staff
· Jun 27, 2018 · 10:13 am
Sex, drugs and Freddie Mercury: A new novel goes beyond the stereotypes of life in urban Pakistan
Nadia Akbar
· Jun 26, 2018 · 05:34 pm
A mighty kingdom wages war on nomadic forest dwellers in this novel set in 120 CE
Usha Alexander
· Jun 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm
‘I didn’t want the tragedy to arrive as a kind of what-will-happen-next page-turner’: Anuradha Roy
Sana Goyal
· Jun 17, 2018 · 12:30 pm
Hundreds of schoolchildren were killed in the Soweto uprising in 1976. A YA novel retells the story
Arushi Raina
· Jun 16, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Ulysses
Scroll Staff
· Jun 16, 2018 · 02:43 pm
A Kashmiri rebel lingers in the home of the policeman who killed him in this unsettling short story
Feroz Rather
· Jun 11, 2018 · 08:30 am
Amish Tripathi’s new novel ‘Suheldev And The Battle of Bahraich’ releasing on July 16
Scroll Staff
· Jun 10, 2018 · 01:56 pm
A scary novel without ghosts in it: Jhumpa Lahiri’s translation of Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’
Sayali Palekar
· Jun 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain
Annie Zaidi
· Jun 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm
A painter struggles to adapt to a stifling marriage and a repressive regime in this Pakistani novel
Sadia Abbas
· Jun 08, 2018 · 08:30 am
A new novel based on the life of singer Janki Bai retells the story of Allahabad’s ‘Chhappan Churi’
Neelam Saran Gour
· Jun 06, 2018 · 05:30 pm
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