Lynching in India’s past: This book shows public violence is ingrained in the history of the land

Aparna Vaidik’s ‘My Son’s Inheritance’ is a reminder of a historical legitimisation of violence that is often denied.

Akshaj Awasthi

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This novel throws new light on the world of the living by showing us how a dead man might see it

Shehan Karunatilaka’s ‘Chats With The Dead’ is peopled with ghosts investigating political killings in Sri Lanka.

Harsimran Gill

· Mar 22, 2020 · 11:30 am

This book turns the history of the Battle of Plassey into a riveting drama in three acts

Everyone knows the details of the battle, but Sudeep Chakravarti’s ‘Plassey: The Battle That Changed the Course of Indian History’ builds the back story.

Rituparna Roy

· Mar 15, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Jaipur Journals’ is set in a literature festival to explore the writing life in all its complexity

What happens when writers confront truths about themselves – and others.

Pragya Tiwari

· Mar 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’ is a classic coming-of-age novel of present day India

In Deepa Anappara’s wonderfully paced debut novel, a little boy goes ‘detectiving’ when children from his basti mysteriously start to disappear.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Mar 14, 2020 · 07:30 am

This survey of Indian literatures seeks a mode of reflective and long-term response to suffering

Nikhil Govind’s ‘Inlays of Subjectivity’ offers a new way and intent to read the texts that constitute the literatures of India.

Nikhil R

· Mar 08, 2020 · 11:30 am

Kunal Basu’s latest novel in English depicts a search for motherhood as much as one for a mother

In ‘Sarojini’s Mother’, an adopted daughter returns to Kolkata in search of her biological mother.

Avik Chanda

· Mar 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel brings Burma to readers so authentically that it could have been non-fiction

The political is presented through the personal in Eugene Lawrence’s informative novel from, and of, Burma before it became Myanmar.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Mar 01, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Boyhood, friendship and the precarious state of democracy make the novel that is ‘The Cliffhangers’

Iqbal’s debut novel unlocks unnamed fears that have become the norm in a highly communalised society.

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Feb 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

Kashmir comes to the reader as a series of perceptions of reality in Siddhartha Gigoo’s new novel

How do those subjected to loss and trauma really remember it?

Manisha Gangahar

· Feb 16, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘Panjab’: Amandeep Sandhu’s journeys through the state reveal a land torn apart repeatedly

Reading this book allows us to go beyond the stereotypes of Punjab.

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Feb 15, 2020 · 07:30 am

This work of micro-history illustrates how laissez faire economics killed millions in British India

In 1876, a massive cyclone hit Bengal. New research reveals how the ideology of free markets led the British Raj to do nothing to help the victims.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Feb 09, 2020 · 07:30 am