Shylashri Shankar
Lawrence Wright’s new thriller shows with chilling prescience how the world will reckon with a pandemic
A gripping reportage of love and the politics of hate
An anecdote-rich but incomplete account by Montek Singh Ahluwalia into India’s economic reforms
Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman
A bittersweet tale of four young men and growing religious faultlines in Kerala
In the final instalment of the Jesus trilogy, JM Coetzee shows that everything we do and desire culminates in loss
In a novel for young readers, Anita Roy takes one on a romp through Deadland
A dispassionate and scholarly depiction of the origins, ideology and politics of the RSS
A tapestry of two families, one upper-class and the other desperately poor, united by happenstance
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