fiction
Phantoms of the Mind
Sudha G. Tilak
A novel about ghosts that are as real as the evil in human hearts
Minute Made
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.
The Indian Art of Murder
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
Bedtime Stories
Writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi on the pleasures of ‘acceptable porn’, the joys of Savita Bhabhi and his new anthology of erotic stories
A Life Less Ordinary
This Orange Prize winner lays bare the fissures in seemingly perfect relationships.
The Power of Fiction
If the Jesus story is mostly a fabrication, it could yet let me outdo Dan Brown.
Oh, for a Book to Ban!
‘Satanic Verses’ was banned 20 years ago. In all the navel-gazing contemporary Indian fiction, where’s the book that has the power to offend?
In Conversation with Meghnad Desai
Economist Meghnad Desai on the fun he had—despite the many challenges—while writing his first work of fiction titled ‘Dead on Time’
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