By Zafar Anjum The Aryavarta Chronicles, Book 1: GOVINDA, by Krishna Udayasankar, New Delhi: Hachette India, 472 pp, paperback. $25....
Jeet Thayil’s novel Narcopolis, set in the Bombay of the 1970s and ’80s, has made it to the shortlist of...
In the south of Pakistan, where Hindus have lately been kidnapped for ransom and their daughters forcibly converted to Islam,...
1989. Afterward, when the world was exploding around him, he felt annoyed with himself for having forgotten the name of...
Two years ago, I was invited to a dinner party in New York. It took place on the Upper East...
Biman Nath brings stories from lesser known parts of the country to us, urban dwellers. His latest novel The Tattooed...
Four years after Aravind Adiga’s famous "Guildhall triumph", another Indian writer is in the race for the £50,000 Man Booker...
EDITED EXCERPTS FROM AN INTERVIEW What was the motivation for writing this book? I am twice divorced now with two...
This week, Taslima Nasreen created controversy not by writing but by tweeting. In a Twitter post, the exiled Bangladeshi feminist...
We sat at that part of the river turned lake for some time. In that some time, four girls went...
