novels
From Bellary and Bangalore
Prathap Nair
Kannada author Vasudhendra’s short stories about city and village life are rife with cynicism and social satire
Anees Salim: The Heirs of the King
Anees Salim’s multi-narrator novel tells of children discovering their lineage
Anindita Ghose: Waiting for the Light
The political adds a darker edge to Anindita Ghose’s first novel
The Wages of War
The Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam, whose new book portrays the island after the civil war, speaks to Nandini Nair about the spectatorship of violence and the persistence of grief
‘All writers are outsiders,’ says Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam’s new novel moves away from her Bangladesh trilogy. She speaks to Antara Raghavan about chronicling the seductions and perils of the startup world
Celebrating Differences
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Red Pill | Vesper Flights
Premchand’s Partner
On the writer’s 140th birth anniversary, why it’s important to celebrate his wife Shivrani Devi, herself an author and freedom fighter
The Drawing Room Writer
Diksha Basu’s new novel is irreverent and glamorous. She tells Urvashi Bahuguna there is more to literature than tortured stories
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