A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad

Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment

To create a Swacch Bharat, you need a broom, say the people of Delhi. What is the appeal of the broom about?

India Art Fair 2015 showed signs of fatigue but there was plenty to please the patient viewer

The eighth Jaipur Literature Festival featured fewer superstars but sustained its literary value. Also, a swansong for a great writer—and another way of festival life

Historian Tom Holland on the riddle of monotheism and the crisis within modern-day Islam

Three Chinese writers, exiled from their country’s imagination, implore India to preserve freedom of speech

The biggest bromance in contemporary literary history comes full circle at JLF, as VS Naipaul and Paul Theroux drive out together

Talking about women's writing and talking about sex may soon be passé, two of today’s sessions suggest

Jhumpa Lahiri wins the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for The Lowland

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…