novel

Prisoner of the Present

Bhavya Dore

Anjum Hasan’s new novel is about a middle-aged history teacher living in Delhi

Siddhartha Deb: Flying Mughals

Prathap Nair

He captures the real through the magical in his new novel

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

Ghost of the Past

Joseph Antony

A tale of how one horrific incident can echo through a life

The Opening Punch

Kinshuk Gupta

Chaos unfurls when vendetta is ill conceived, and a bag of riches is to be found

Lands without Justice

Sampad Patnaik

A novel built on the history of hate

The Many Tongues of the Forest

Antara Raghavan

Sheela Tomy’s novel tells the stories of the land and its people. She speaks to Open about bringing the Western Ghats alive in fiction

Kamila Shamsie: The Anatomy of a Friendship

Nandini Nair

In her new novel, Kamila Shamsie moves between Karachi of the late 1980s and London of today. She speaks to Open about how childhood bonds can fray and strengthen over time