Upamanyu Chatterjee

The Normality of Evil

Nandini Nair

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s seventh novel opens with the discovery of a dead body in a park. He speaks to Nandini Nair about creating crafty characters and the villainy principle

The Garden of Forking Paths

Nandini Nair

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel. Upamanyu Chatterjee makes his debut as a crime writer. Booker-winning authors Julian Barnes and Douglas Stuart release their much awaited novels

Upamanyu Chatterjee: Oddball Savant

Nandini Nair

On the 30th anniversary of the book that launched him, Upamanyu Chatterjee seeks his own revenge by shooing away holy cows with a new novella

Three-Seven-Seven And the Blue Gay Gene

Upamanyu Chatterjee

"The case history of 377 is gripping; it reflects what we have thought about morality over the last 150 years.If you ask me, it really is time to move on, turn the page"

Novelist Upamanyu Chatterjee is the master of Indian cool. In his latest, Fairy Tales at Fifty, he pushes his limits in a bleak tale of modern Indian anguish. The writer in conversation with Open magazine