A collection of translated short stories by the late Sunil Gangopadhyay reveals his preoccupation with man’s inhumanity
In their retellings of India’s ancient past, these writers fall somewhere between shallow revisionism and ponderous pontification
The return of a Latin American literary idol, a Holocaust morality tale, pre-WWI England, stories from the shadowlands, a Victorian saga of closeted lesbians and a gay parallel narrative in seventeenth-century Amsterdam
Acclaimed writer and critic Shamsur Rahman Faruqi on poetry, Indian literary theory and Urdu’s legacy in an exclusive preview of his new book
How spirituality and poetry mix in the peripatetic world of Arundhathi Subramaniam
Richard Flanagan has won the Man Booker for his epic around the Burma Death Railway
The rise of authors from the IIT/IIM milieu gives Chetan Bhagat’s audience the stories of the homes they adopted and the ones they left behind—in Devanagari
The Australian novelist won the world's big book prize for his war novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North
An art adventure; the American cynic; dystopian love; the Burma Death Railway; a very Bengali tale; and a monkey girl
A compelling treatise by a seer-savant studies what the ascendancy of Homo sapiens has made of our world