fiction

Mothers and Daughters

Kaveree Bamzai

A journey into lost love and its lingering trauma

Through a Lens Lightly

Rati Girish

Young-adult fiction that shines a light on the contemporary world

Searching for Orwell

Fehmida Zakeer

Fantasy and reality tell of a struggling writer from Bihar

Intimate Watching

Shylashri Shankar

Detectives with cool, rational minds who need to see justice done

The Pleasure Principle

Shylashri Shankar

Dismantling the artificial boundaries between high and low fiction

The Demon in the Machine

Shylashri Shankar

The possibilities and limits of AI-authored thrillers

Parini Shroff: The Queen’s Gambit

Shreevatsa Nevatia

Parini Shroff’s debut novel is packed with useless husbands and spunky women. The author speaks about bringing comedy and tragedy together in an Indian village

Monkey Business

Arunima Mazumdar

A dream-like sequence, set around two boys, of the history of Bangladesh

A Dragon in the Garden

Fehmida Zakeer

When people encounter the unknown

Anjana Appachana: Listening Again

Nandini Nair

Her first novel in more than two decades returns to homes filled with silences and secrets, disappointments and dreams. The novelist in conversation with