An incendiary Urdu classic, banned in 1932, makes its way back to us in English
A hilarious yet serious look at the indefatigable Indian mother-in-law tells us why she is a national problem
Neel Mukherjee’s second novel gives us the Calcutta family in all its crumbling glory.
A new translation of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’s book takes us back to a time in history that is slowly fading away.
Ranjit Hoskote says anything can be good material for poetry if you can make it work
The rich and complex history of slang demonstrates how we have always felt the need to express all that is raw, emotive and visceral through a pontaneous counter-language
Gujarat isn’t Guangdong, but shows the rest of India what its model of governance can achieve
Charu Singh’s debut is about good versus evil, but with a Buddhist backdrop
Akhil Sharma’s new novel Family Life, 12 years in the making, is an immigrant saga partially gone wrong