First read: Why Shiva turned to writing fiction in his ancient temple in Madras

K Srilata

· Jul 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

First read: This passage shows why Neel Mukherjee’s ‘A State of Freedom’ takes a knife to your gut

Neel Mukherjee

· Jul 06, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why Mr Chopra of Gurgaon has an inferiority complex despite his wealth

Diksha Basu

· Jul 05, 2017 · 08:30 am

Finally, a breezy novel about a millennial who doesn’t take herself too seriously

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jul 02, 2017 · 07:30 am

Gandharvi

Scroll Staff

· Jun 29, 2017 · 01:58 pm

This tale of longing and infidelity in Lahore is not a straightforward social novel

Faiqa Mansab

· Jun 27, 2017 · 08:30 am

Orwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin: Who would win a dystopian fiction contest?

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Jun 25, 2017 · 05:30 am

The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea

Scroll Staff

· Jun 22, 2017 · 07:31 pm

‘Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel explains why fantasy must inhabit historical fiction

Michael Durrant, The Conversation

· Jun 18, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Dear Mr Bond, here’s what your ‘Confessions of a Book Lover’ told me about writing (and you)

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 18, 2017 · 08:30 am

What happens when age takes ability out of desire? Hanif Kureishi’s new novel tells us

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Jun 17, 2017 · 05:30 pm

The Idiot

Scroll Staff

· Jun 13, 2017 · 10:14 am

This novel shows a writer reclaiming herself from a violent, abusive husband (it’s not a memoir)

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jun 12, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘I have written standing up in buses, on the fourth seat of a Mumbai local’: Jerry Pinto

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jun 10, 2017 · 07:00 am

Sadness is devastatingly beautiful in Anees Salim’s new novel (or is it his imagined life?)

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Jun 10, 2017 · 06:00 am

Could Jainism have swept Gujarat? A historical saga asks this question (and several others)

KM Munshi

· Jun 08, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘The Havelburg Djinn’: A Pakistani stand-up comic and writer’s short story

Sami Shah

· Jun 07, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Arundhati Roy’s novel lays bare the horrors and hopes of our times. This is not holiday homework

Durba Chattaraj

· Jun 05, 2017 · 08:30 am

This novel reminds us we have chosen to ignore the darkness beneath the dazzle of modern India

Shireen Quadri

· Jun 04, 2017 · 05:30 pm

One more Mumbai novel? No, perhaps ‘the’ novel of modern Mumbai

Sayali Palekar

· May 27, 2017 · 06:00 am