Chintan Girish Modi
A queer-themed novel about immigrants, spanning Chennai to San Francisco
Anees Salim’s multi-narrator novel tells of children discovering their lineage
With her 20th book, Namita Gokhale does what she does best—write about lives like ours
The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist tells of the persistence of grief, the deceptions of online prattle, the call of the wild, racial inequality and the triumph of the human spirit