This many-layered novel, about a folk-hero and his fabulous moustache, examines the nature of story-telling— how people, animals and places can be kept alive through the narratives built around them

Parasite’s historic win may suggest a new inclusivity at the Oscars. But can these awards (or any award) be all things to all cinemas?

When the everyday seems like a hyper-real dream

Krishna Sobti’s novelised memoir is a testament to the great writer’s formal inventiveness

The localisation of the bard as a cultural study

A writer’s struggle with bipolarity

Fantasy and realism meet in this debut to mixed effect

A conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik

Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story

The redemptive power of storytelling sets this novel about religious terrorism apart

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…