The memoir of a Gond artist brings out the cultural perversions of progress
The story of an Afghan woman hunted for the crime of taking control of her own life
When Marathi actress Vandana Mishra bids farewell to high heels in a different kind of Bombay
Alain de Botton returns to fiction and redeems love from romance. The philosopher novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair
The last of Tahmima Anam’s Bengal trilogy compresses the domestic and the global into an evocative narrative
An American master on mortality, a Nobel laureate on New Russia and more. Bibliotherapy for the summer
The Delhi-born, US-based writer's new novel captures the terror and tragedy of our time
What the struggle in a Tamil Nadu village says about the other side of development
The open borders of Bengali literature come alive in this collection of short stories