books

Book of Forgetting

Sanjay Sipahimalani

In the final instalment of the Jesus trilogy, JM Coetzee shows that everything we do and desire culminates in loss

My Reading Life

Arshia Sattar

Meeting a younger me through my bookcases

Search for Home

Ameya Nagarajan

In a novel for young readers, Anita Roy takes one on a romp through Deadland

Neither Polemical nor Prejudicial

Pralay Kanungo

A dispassionate and scholarly depiction of the origins, ideology and politics of the RSS

House of Spirits

Antara Datta

A tapestry of two families, one upper-class and the other desperately poor, united by happenstance

Amit Majmudar: ‘There Are No Atheists in the Trenches’

Urvashi Bahuguna

Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna

Future Present

Andaleeb Wajid

Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut work of fiction tells of a time when nations have fallen and corporations are running the world

An Outsider’s Gaze

Sharanya Manivannan

A contemporary ethnographic work on isolated tribes that trespasses too often

Mantel’s Genius

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

The final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy proves how the kingmaker can make for a more compelling story than the king

Tinker a Tale

Sophia Khan

The everyday ingenuity we see around us is at the heart of steampunk, a genre defined by its combination of modern technology and anachronistic settings