A wry and evocative novel captures the history and spirit of Goa but struggles with stereotypes

Sarojesh Mukherjee

· May 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Light and darkness: KR Meera’s newly translated novel is much more than a woman’s disappearance

Apoorva Sripathi

· Apr 29, 2018 · 10:30 am

(Almost) everything you wanted to know about Kashmiri Pandits but didn’t know whom to ask

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 29, 2018 · 07:00 am

Mukul Kesavan’s time-travelling photographer tells an unorthodox story of the Partition

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Apr 28, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Meena Kandasamy and Kamila Shamsie on the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Scroll Staff

· Apr 23, 2018 · 06:29 pm

How similar was Neanderthal Man to Homo Sapiens? Novelist William Golding got there before science

Arnab Chakraborty

· Apr 22, 2018 · 07:00 am

Detective Arjun Arora returns in Ankush Saikia’s new book to find the murderer of a young Naga woman

Ankush Saikia

· Apr 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

Sumana Roy’s novel offers complex characters that show who we are as individuals and as a country

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Apr 15, 2018 · 08:30 am

Sean Penn, who just do stuff, has written a thesaurus masquerading as an unreadable debut novel

Nicholas Rixon

· Apr 15, 2018 · 07:00 am

On Baisakhi, two classic short stories that capture the spirit of Punjab

Nanak Singh Amrita Pritam Nirupama Dutt

· Apr 14, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Could ‘The Devils’ Dance’ be the ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ of Central Asian literature?

Peter Gordon

· Apr 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

Two cousins battle to save the soul of Goa against corruption and plunder in this evocative novel

Sudeep Chakravarti

· Apr 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What happens when a wife goes missing? Sumana Roy’s debut novel is the study of a modern marriage

Sumana Roy

· Apr 10, 2018 · 08:30 am

Mumbai’s most loved gynaecologist is accused of female foeticide in this chilling crime novel

Deepanjana Pal

· Apr 09, 2018 · 08:30 am

Elizabeth Strout returns to her old characters to show us again what being human means

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Apr 07, 2018 · 10:30 am

KR Meera’s new novel returns to familiar themes of longing, loss and obsession

KR Meera

· Apr 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

Sorry, Will Self, your report on the death of the novel is (still) premature

Katy Shaw, The Conversation

· Apr 02, 2018 · 08:30 am

Chandrahas Choudhury’s second novel ‘Clouds’ might have been better off as two books instead of one

Devapriya Roy

· Apr 01, 2018 · 12:30 pm

The daily lives in Anjum Hasan’s new short stories belong to outliers. Dissonance meets discomfort

Harsimran Gill

· Apr 01, 2018 · 08:30 am

The author of a novel can only take you halfway. The reader has to solve the rest of the puzzle

Claire Fuller

· Mar 29, 2018 · 08:30 am