Fikr Taunsvi’s journal of the Partition paints a surrealistic tableau that lingers in the memory

An eyewitness account provides a new way to remember the dehumanising atrocities.

Debjani Sengupta

· Dec 01, 2019 · 07:30 am

Few novels present oppression and suffering through hard stories the way Uzma Aslam Khan’s book does

Well researched and lyrically narrated, Uzma Aslam Khan’s ‘The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali’ is a fundamentally and unabashedly political novel.

Osama Siddique

· Nov 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends

Why does Ayoola kill her lovers? Is it self-defence, trauma or because she can? Oyinkan Braithwaite’s ‘My Sister The Serial Killer’ is a quickie done right.

Suhasini Patni

· Nov 24, 2019 · 08:30 am

Devdutt Pattanaik and Amruta Patil pick a minor myth for their graphic novel about forest mystique

Kitchens, appetites and the symbolic richness of the forest feature in this collaborative story starring the mythical figure of Katyayani.

Rituparna Sengupta

· Nov 23, 2019 · 07:30 am

History, myth, scholarship: This qissa-as-novel by Musharraf Ali Farooqi looks power in the eye

Farooqi’s qissa in English gives us the rich tapestry of a West Asian world with its flourishing knowledge systems that are often forgotten today.

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Nov 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This book reminds us why we cannot look away from the people of Kashmir anymore

Sahba Husain’s ‘Love, Loss, and Longing in Kashmir’ examines not only the death and destruction but also the resistance to the violence.

Suvir Kaul

· Nov 16, 2019 · 07:30 am

Against a certain idea of writing: What Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s book of essays tells us about him

Critic, poet, anthologist, scholar and translator. Mehrotra’s literary career is as multifaceted as it is difficult to write about.

Vineet Gill

· Nov 03, 2019 · 07:30 am

This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India

‘Nowhere People’, Sabitri Roy’s Bengali novel from 1972 now translated into English is an important fictional document of the influx into independent India.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Nov 02, 2019 · 07:30 am

Want to know more about ‘late stage capitalism’? Read this satirical novel from Australia

Heather Rose’s ‘Bruny’ explores what can happen when capital runs rampant globally and politicians are compromised. Come to think of it, that’s no satire.

Simon Ryan, The Conversation

· Oct 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel weaves together searing personal memories of the Partition and the anti-Sikh pogrom

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s novel ‘Radiance of a Thousand Suns’ imagines the outcomes of documenting trauma.

Gokul S Prabhu

· Oct 19, 2019 · 01:30 pm

‘Karmic Chanting’: Sonnet Mondal’s poetry uses rich metaphors and elegant anguish to depict a quest

These poems can be overwhelming for the senses, but they also take the reader on a rewarding journey.

Shikhandin

· Oct 06, 2019 · 06:42 pm

Beneath the veneer of a crime novel, ‘You Beneath Your Skin’ is a study of problematic relationships

In the fast-moving ‘You Beneath Your Skin’, Damyanti Biswas lays bare the world of misogyny and fraught relationships that informs a series of crimes.

Rituparna Roy

· Oct 05, 2019 · 12:30 pm