young adult
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‘Spotless’: Vibha Batra’s young adult novel reinforces the idea that beauty is always skin-deep
Shibani Phukan
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‘Swimming Lessons’: A coming-of-age novel tackles the immense familial pressures on Asian children
Sayari Debnath
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A new heroine emerges on Earth after a catastrophic comet strike as two empires prepare to go to war
Sophia Khan
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Three teenaged lives start to unravel in this Young Adult novel about love, loss and mental illness
Himanjali Sankar
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Reading list: In search of the Great Indian Young Adult book (written in English)
Bijal Vachharajani
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Why a journalist wrote about the Niyamgiri agitation in the form of a Young Adult novel
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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The teenagers who star in Paro Anand’s new YA book are all ‘othered’ by their friends
Paro Anand
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Mysteries, Mumbai and monsters: This Young Adult novel has all the makings of a pageturner
Shabnam Minwalla
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Make your characters relatable, even if they aren’t human: Advice to YA writers from a 14-year-old
Sahar Beg
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‘Children can read about the Holocaust, but not about the violence in Kashmir’: Writer Paro Anand
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri