Madhavankutty Pillai
A meditation on existence from the shadow of the Himalayas
Starcrossed lovers revive Allahabad’s glory days in this charming if dated translation—and the lingering gender debate
Novelist Kiran Nagarkar’s once-censored play is in print at last, with a fast-paced new screenplay
In his latest outing, Karl Ove Knausgaard portrays himself as a teenager with literary ambition
A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad
Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment
An Indologist from Italy reflects on the rapture that religion offers as an experience
A seething knot of a coming of age story shows how India’s 90s generation deals with drugs, sex, magic mushrooms and, of course, divorce
A journalist employs black comedy to highlight all that is wrong with India’s economy