books

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