Rajni George
Ambitious and earnest, Amitabha Bagchi’s new novel faces up to our times
The new Perumal Murugan in translation highlights the primordial kinship of the countryside
Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel is a meditation on an India that’s short on Nehruvian idealism
Jeet Thayil’s new novel is inhabited by troubled storytellers. The novelist talks about his art and life in a conversation with Nandini Nair