fiction

A Fictional Boom

Faiza S. Khan

Pakistan’s alleged literary boom is becoming a case of counting one’s novelists before they hatch.

Sweet World

If Hrishikesh Mukherjee had ever tired his hand at writing fiction, he would have read a lot like this Farahad Zama’s The Marriage Bureau for Rich People or its sequel, The Many Conditions of Love.

So, What Happened?

Madhavankutty Pillai

Lucid language, poignant moments and one hell of an ending. If only there was a plot to fill the 200-odd pages.

Where No Healing Is Ever Enough

Elizabeth Kuruvilla

Nominated for a children’s book prize, Anna Perera’s story of a Guantanamo inmate wrenches the heart with its stark realism.

Marked for Life

Sandipan Deb

Meet a girl with a tattoo who could haunt you for a long time to come.

Phantoms of the Mind

Sudha G. Tilak

A novel about ghosts that are as real as the evil in human hearts

Minute Made

Amitava Kumar

We bring you ‘Postmortem’, a short story by Amitava Kumar, which was a contender for the Three-Minute Fiction contest on US National Public Radio.

We know Sherlock ‘elementary’ Holmes, we know Hercule ‘little grey cells’ Poirot and we know Philip ‘I collect blondes and bottles’ Marlowe. Now, several writers are making a pitch for the next great detective—from India