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
Two Delhi debuts take on questions of ownership and identity in the city that is never fully awake. One does better than the other
The charming story of a family of Indians who went to Jerusalem to mind an Indian hospice and stayed
A newly translated selection of stories finds irony, poetry and wasted opportunity in the troubled history of the Subcontinent
A study of Indian cinema post-liberalisation uses Bollywood’s subtexts to examine the great Indian middle class
Mecca today is a microcosm of its own history replayed as tragedy
Amit Chaudhuri matches the glorious nothingness of Afternoon Raag at last with his beautiful new novel about a bookish young Bengali Everyman and his uncle in London