This novel explores what can happen when a virtual digital life replaces the real one

Guha gets together a variety of people who in earlier days would never have met, but who can ‘meet’ in the age of blogs and social media.

Jaithirth Rao

· Jan 25, 2020 · 11:30 am

In Jeet Thayil’s ‘Low’, a man goes on a drug-addled Bombay odyssey after his wife’s suicide

A funny, sad, achingly alive novel.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jan 25, 2020 · 08:30 am

This book of short stories is designed to expand the idea of queer beyond desire and borders

Vikram Kolmaanskog’s ‘Lord of the Senses’ refuses to consolidate identity and gyrates around the possibilities.

Rahul Sen

· Jan 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

Rana Safvi’s history of Shahjahanabad is as much about its inhabitants as about its grand buildings

The third book in the ‘Where Stones Speak’ trilogy is unique in that it speaks of a living city, for Shahjahanabad exists today too.

Akshaj Awasthi

· Jan 12, 2020 · 07:30 am

Aruni Kashyap’s gentle stories depict Assamese characters trying to make sense of their world

This collection of short fiction flows easily between the personal and the political.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jan 11, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘Find Me’: André Aciman’s sequel to ‘Call Me By Your Name’ is not here to mend anyone’s broken heart

This novel ends up as a DIY guide to making do with what you have.

Aratrika Sengupta

· Dec 28, 2019 · 12:30 pm

The enigmatic life and times of VK Krishna Menon are resurrected in this biography by Jairam Ramesh

Jairam Ramesh’s biography of one of India’s most colourful politicians.

Geeta Doctor

· Dec 28, 2019 · 07:30 am

Annie Zaidi’s novel paints a searing picture of how communal disharmony affects each of us

‘Prelude to a Riot’ graphically describes a situation where communal mobilisation in full swing in a south Indian town.

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Dec 21, 2019 · 07:30 am

Jaithirth ‘Jerry’ Rao places Indian conservative thought outside right wing extremism in this book

Finally, an attempt to trace the course of conservative ideas in India beyond political ideology.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Dec 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

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