stories

Jeet Thayil: A Poet’s Fiction

Nandini Nair

Jeet Thayil’s new novel is inhabited by troubled storytellers. The novelist talks about his art and life in a conversation with Nandini Nair

The Ban That Must Not Be

Nandini Nair

The Adivasi Will Not Dance tells of a Santhal worldview that is all too often ignored

Anees Salim: The Solitary Reaper

Jai Arjun Singh

Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story

Speak, Memory

Diya Kohli

When half-remembered stories from the past become shadowy foundations of the present

Suketu Mehta: City Slicker

Nandini Nair

The chronicler of metropolises returns to fiction to tell the story of memory and displacement

Cop Land

Sharon Fernandes

Anita Nair’s second Inspector Gowda offering is on the horrors of child trafficking and sexual abuse

Deep Within

Nandini Nair

These stories reveal the fragility of the mind and the capacity of the heart

Books Do Matter. Or Do They?

Devika Bakshi

Reading into the Jaipur Literature Festival

The City, the Stroller and the Comic Strip

Janice Pariat

Three artists explore the joys of city strolling and mining its stories. On display under a single roof in a Bangalore gallery are the pleasures of flânerie