‘The Legend of Meneka’: A fun and feminist retelling of a mythological heroine’s story

Jun 01, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Tales from the Dawn-lit Mountains’: Observant and deeply empathetic stories from Arunachal Pradesh

May 31, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Consent’: How does one define consent when systemic inequalities define gendered interactions?

May 25, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Tales from Qabristan’: A novel about a young man’s childhood memories is as vivid as a photograph

May 24, 2025 · 03:30 pm

‘Ideas, Thoughts and Memories’: A rich anthology of literary essays by Bengal’s foremost writers

May 17, 2025 · 05:30 pm

There’s something for every reader in ‘A Teashop in Kamalapura and Other Classic Kannada Stories’

May 17, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Men at Home’: Gyanendra Pandey’s book on South Asian masculinity leaves much to be desired

May 17, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘With Earth as My Witness’: Poetry as meditation on the profane and sacred, the human and the divine

May 11, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘The Ex-Daughters of Tolstoy House’: How much blood must be spilled before the cycle is broken?

May 11, 2025 · 03:30 pm

‘My Head For A Tree’: A moving account of the Bishnoi community’s reverence for all forms of life

May 10, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘The Phantom’s Howl’: A nifty little trove of emotionally complex, modern Bengali ghost stories

May 03, 2025 · 03:30 pm

‘Hot Water’: Bhavika Govil’s debut novel movingly constructs a child’s fragile yet resilient world

May 03, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Stroke of Death’: Murder mystery set in colonial Bengal shines in its portrayal of women’s lives

Apr 27, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Maguni’s Bullock Cart and Other Classic Odia Stories’: A glimpse into Odisha’s literary tradition

Apr 27, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘The Tiger’s Share’: In Keshava Guha’s second novel, a family man does the unthinkable

Apr 27, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Unmoored’: Translated Tamil novella about migration takes the reader on a journey of their own

Apr 26, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper’: A thrilling account of a persistent voice of dissent in India

Apr 26, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Shattered’: British-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi’s memoir is a testament to exemplary courage

Apr 20, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Mad About Cuba’: A Malayali journalist’s endearing travelogue about his trip to his dream country

Apr 20, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Tareekh Pe Justice’: A vital book to understand how the justice system works (or doesn’t) in India

Apr 20, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘The Book of Disappearance’: The dangerous ease with which colonial dispossession can become routine

Apr 19, 2025 · 04:00 pm

‘True Story of a Writer, A Philosopher and a Shape-shifter’: Truth is contentious in a ‘true story’

Apr 19, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Ananda’: An illuminating and diverse account of the deep roots of cannabis in Indian society

Apr 19, 2025 · 07:30 am

The short stories in ‘The Second Marriage Of Kunju Namboodiri’ give new life to Malayalam classics

Apr 13, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Careless People’: A searing tell-all about destructive structural incentives that embolden Facebook

Apr 13, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘The Day the Earth Bloomed’: An evocative tale of travel, poverty, beauty, and rhythms of language

Apr 12, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule

Apr 12, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘These Tongues that Grow Roots’: Poetic stories on memory and quiet resonances of human experience

Apr 06, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘Tripping Down The Ganga’: A son’s faith and scepticism, and the worship and neglect of the river

Apr 06, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Sita in Exile’: A novel about gender expectations of women in the Ramayana (and the modern world)

Apr 05, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘The Comeback’: Annie Zaidi’s short and sweet novel about second chances

Apr 05, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘The Owl, the River and the Valley’: Short stories with incisive knowledge of common Assamese woman

Mar 30, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Mouth’: A collection of speculative short fiction that breaks the binary of human and the other

Mar 30, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Mudritha’: This debut novel about a missing woman is hauntingly aware of its own making

Mar 29, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’ is every bit is as radical as you think

Mar 29, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Changing, Unchanging’: Anju Makhija’s poetry is a quest for the restful

Mar 23, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Lucy and the Djinn’: A djinn story based in Kerala could use a stronger dose of fantasy

Mar 23, 2025 · 03:30 pm

‘Broken Mirror’: Conversations with Bengal’s public intellectuals shine a light on their inner lives

Mar 23, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘The World With Its Mouth Open’: Ordinary experiences reflect the absurdity of Kashmir’s reality

Mar 22, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Life on Mars’: Namita Gokhale writes of the many images of love and heartbreak in new short stories

Mar 22, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘I Am on the Hit List’: A lament for Gauri Lankesh, and a country that lost its way

Mar 22, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Soumitra Chatterjee and His World’: A moving tribute to a beloved Bengali icon

Mar 22, 2025 · 07:00 am

‘Deviants’: A life-affirming, heartbreaking intergenerational novel about queer life in India

Mar 16, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Madhouse’: Gyan Chaturvedi’s biting satire about the discontents of consumer culture

Mar 16, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Hidden Treasure’: A novel that leaves the reader famished by what it reveals and for what it hides

Mar 15, 2025 · 03:30 pm

‘A Drop in the Ocean’: Syeda Hameed’s memoir reflects grief for the disappearing idea of India

Mar 15, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Unknown City’: Amitabha Bagchi is back with a bang with Arindam Chatterjee from ‘Above Average’

Mar 15, 2025 · 08:30 am

Bill Gates’s origin story: A life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of big tech’s problems

Mar 09, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Wild Fictions’ by Amitav Ghosh: An eloquent testament to the life of the mind

Mar 09, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Notes on Nothing’ by Anonymous: In hot pursuit of nothing (and nobody much)

Mar 08, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘You’: M Mukundan’s new novel weaves the tale of an unbidden beginning and determined departure

Mar 08, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan

Mar 02, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Video Culture in India’: A fascinating study of media democratisation before the internet age

Mar 01, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘I’ll Have It Here’: Jeet Thayil blends the instinctive and incomprehensible in his new poems

Mar 01, 2025 · 05:00 pm

‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision

Mar 01, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Heart Lamp’: Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-longlisted book is charged by women’s anger

Mar 01, 2025 · 07:35 am

‘Girls Who Stray’: Anisha Lalvani’s debut novel about a young woman’s missteps lands on unsure feet

Feb 23, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Loka’: SB Divya’s sci-fi novel makes a case for cutting off roots and taking off for a better place

Feb 23, 2025 · 03:30 pm

‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him

Feb 23, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Wonderland of Words’: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘seriously funny’ book on the quirks of the English language

Feb 22, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Burnings’: Himanjali Sankar deftly weaves women’s trials and tribulations into horror

Feb 22, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism

Feb 22, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘In the Light of Shiva’: HS Shivaprakash’s poetry from the last 50 years attests to his greatness

Feb 16, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘No Place To Call My Own’: A slow start makes way for a realistic portrayal of women’s relationships

Feb 16, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘The Other Mohan’: A gripping tale of not just the Empire but of lives buried in historical records

Feb 16, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Great Eastern Hotel’: A sprawling, precise novel about Calcutta’s people and big historical moments

Feb 15, 2025 · 11:30 am

‘Our Stories, Our Struggle’: Shocking tales of misogyny from South Asia show how dire the problem is

Feb 15, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Beggar’s Bedlam’: Nabarun Bhattacharya’s defiant, magic realist novel about class clashes in Bengal

Feb 09, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Hindi Hindu Histories’: Fascinating accounts of four 20th-century outliers who imagined new futures

Feb 09, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Girl’: The vitality of multispecies life is evident in Ruth Padel’s latest book of poems

Feb 08, 2025 · 06:30 pm

Fantasy novel ‘The Garden of Delights’: Kindness is the only antidote to hate and conflict

Feb 02, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Pope Francis’s autobiography: We’ve never known so much about the pontiff before

Feb 01, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Lola in Belfast’: Pallavi Padma-Uday’s poems connect her authentic roots with the new world

Jan 31, 2025 · 01:30 am

‘Night in Delhi’: An edgy novel about a working-class queer man’s fight to survive

Jan 26, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘A Fatal Distraction’: This Delhi society murder mystery is racy and engaging despite a few snags

Jan 26, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘The Other Sister’: An unconventional, brave novel about the unbearable emptiness of virtual living

Jan 25, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Disrupted City’: A rich and multilayered narration of Lahore’s long history

Jan 25, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘The Story of Eve’: Zehra Nigah’s poetry makes the reader feel heard and understood

Jan 25, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘The Amateurs’: Saikat Majumdar’s book argues that reading can be a route to claiming selfhood

Jan 19, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Our Evenings’: Alan Hollinghurst’s elegiac look at class, sexuality, race in the post-Brexit era

Jan 18, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Book of Exodus’: A rare novel about the meaning and meaninglessness of everyday living

Jan 18, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Ramayana’: A rebellious Sita and translating classical Assamese texts

Jan 12, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘The Grudges of Gajanan Godbole’: A crass protagonist, messy plot, and no clear convictions

Jan 11, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Bhagmati’ goes deeply into the legend at the heart of Hyderabad’s composite culture

Jan 11, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Speaking with Nature’: Ramachandra Guha studies Indian environmentalism through ten individuals

Jan 05, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘The New New Delhi Book Club’: A breezy read about the upper class’s struggles with the lockdown

Jan 04, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Missy’: Raghav Rao writes convincingly about the pushes and pulls of our closest relationships

Jan 04, 2025 · 11:30 am

‘The School for Bad Girls’: Rule-breakers who became trailblazers of Indian women’s liberation

Dec 29, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘One and Three Quarters’: A survival tale of a village boy told with wit, irony and a touch of magic

Dec 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘The Death of a Sarus Crane’: Ambai’s detective stories excavate the murky depth of human behaviour

Dec 28, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Shrink’ by Rachel M Thomas: A compelling graphic novel about navigating fatphobia as a young woman

Dec 25, 2024 · 08:30 pm

‘Modernity, Print and Sahitya’: A well-researched book about how Odia literature shaped its culture

Dec 22, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Yeonnam-dong’s Smiley Laundromat’: A comfort read that reminds us of the value of human connections

Dec 21, 2024 · 05:00 pm

‘Ecoceanic’: Speculative fiction anthology from the global South reveals climate change injustices

Dec 21, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘Bride in the Hills’: Kannada writer Kuvempu’s novel depicts life under the ruthless regime of caste

Dec 21, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘Aag Aur Pani’: Hindi writer Vyomesh Shukla draws an authentic portrait of eternal Banaras

Dec 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘My Palestine’: Mohammad Tarbush’s memoir is a heartbreaking read about the Palestinian plight

Dec 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The Lucky Ones’: Zara Chowdhary’s memoir dredges up one family’s memories of the Gujarat riots

Dec 14, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘Still Lives’: Reshma Ruia’s novel shows how the loss of home sometimes leads to a loss of self

Dec 08, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘Everyday Reading’: A richly informative book relives the glory days of Hindi magazine publishing

Dec 07, 2024 · 07:30 am