Diksha Basu’s new novel is irreverent and glamorous. She tells Urvashi Bahuguna there is more to literature than tortured stories

Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna

Akhil Katyal tells Urvashi Bahuguna how he finds Delhi crazily unequal and maddeningly beautiful

Emily Hennessey brings together myths from across the world to spin a compelling yarn

Making sense of the parochial mind

Chronicling Chennai’s flood and the many failures of multiple stakeholders to mitigate and respond to the disaster

Arundhathi Subramaniam’s recent collection of poems revisits childhood, friendships and ageing

HM Naqvi captures the dilapidations of age and a city in his new novel

Literary journalism of a poet

A poet in his liminal world

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…