Karthika Nair retells the epic in verse with a feminist and subaltern perspective
Anand Ranganathan’s latest novel is a gripping tale of love and war set in the backdrop of the Mizo insurgency
This book on the year of liberalisation misses the secrets of Narasimha Rao’s agenda
Sunjeev Sahota’s Booker-shortlisted novel tells the story of illegal immigrants in Britain
Stieg Larsson gets a competent inheritor but the twice-told tale of the sequel should not lead to The Girl Who Created a Storm in a Teacup
What is it that makes him an enduring literary icon of compassion and empathy?
The amazing story of a man and his publishing house that reshaped Hindu nationalism
This 1930s chronicle of a lower middle class youth brings out the genius of novelist and playwright Upendranath Ashk, known as the Proust of Hindi literature
An ambitious historical novel takes on the 20th century’s two great wars, with some hiccups