Granta’s second India issue brings together a new crop of writers who don’t quite up the ante
Pakistan’s unlikely Urdu literary star, a former mason, makes his English debut with striking if simple short stories
This biography of trail-blazing Princess Sophia Duleep Singh offers a parallel narrative of 20th century feminism
A spunky collection of essays takes an acclaimed novelist through India and the world in search of her many homes
In the first of a trilogy which is part history and part memoir, Pranab Mukherjee misses the big picture of history
A slow-burning novel vivifies the life and loves of young gay men, moving between the Northeast, Delhi and London
Two women writers turn an unflinching eye to the lasting fallout of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict
Faiza Sultan Khan, Tunku Varadarajan, Burhan Wazir, MJ Akbar, Mini Kapoor, Jug Suraiya