MG Vassanji’s new novel places an inter-faith love story in the heart of a polarised Delhi. The Toronto-based, Indian-African writer in conversation with Shikha Kumar

Shubha Mudgal marks her fiction debut with a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek collection of stories set in the Hindustani classical music world

Kavita Puri chronicles the lives of migrants caught in double displacement

SG Vasudev’s retrospective reveals the joyous communion of man, woman and nature

How the Hungry Movement of Bengal in the 60s mirrored the Beat Generation

The Pakistani author Sabyn Javeri talks about the politics of the hijab and the role of writers in divided societies in a conversation with Shikha Kumar

The new novel by Fatima Bhutto returns to questions of identity and power. She talks to Shikha Kumar about the politics of imagination

India’s most beloved writer remembers

The Indian-American author Sharmila Sen presents a compelling portrait of the immigrant experience

Iranian activist-journalist Masih Alinejad reveals the importance of saying no to repressive regimes in her memoir

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…