fiction

Capital Noir

Chintan Girish Modi

Delhi stories where the boundaries between pleasure and violence are disturbingly blurred

The Future is Now

Prathap Nair

Samit Basu’s dystopian novel cleverly blurs the line between fact and fiction

Searching For Home

Vineetha Mokkil

Jahnavi Barua’s novel delves into the complexities of familial bonds in strife-ridden Assam

Ritual and Catharsis

Aditya Mani Jha

Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman

Knives Out

Shylashri Shankar

Mysteries for pandemic times—from a virus which is the weapon of mass destruction to a US Congressional intern caught in political intrigue

On the Beach

Rini Barman

A bittersweet tale of four young men and growing religious faultlines in Kerala

Search for Home

Ameya Nagarajan

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

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

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