novels
The Wages of War
Nandini Nair
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
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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
JK Rowling: Woke Target
The Harry Potter author is being accused of transphobia for not being sufficiently gender neutral
Ritual and Catharsis
Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman
Being Cyrus
Cyrus Mistry moves away from the Parsi settings of his earlier works to a quiet cardamom farm in Kerala for his new novel
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