April 6, 2026

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Book Review of Behind the Walls

A Plate of White Marble

Interpreting Cinema: Adaptation, Intertextualities, Art Movement

The Battle of Belonging

Across and Beyond

A Book of Simple Living

The Sharp Knife of Memory

The four colours

The Four Colors

India Dissents

Modernism By Other Means

The Poet as A Persevering Witness

Making Marriage Work

Mohini – The Enchantress

Displacement And Citizenship

The Legend of Himal and Nagrai

Musicophilia in Mumbai

The Flavours of Nationalism

Sita’s Sisters

Shadow City

The Machine is Learning

Blasphemy

Scream to the Shadows

Fall Baby

Return to Solitude

Witnessing Partition

Shadow Men

Flawed

Beast

One Foot on the Ground

Bhaunri and Daura

One drop of Blood

Off The Shelf

The Last Cherry Blossom

A Brief History of Silence

Earthquake Boy

Boys from Good Families

Suralakshmi Villa

Coming Back to the City

The War on Terror

My Mother’s Lover

The Mark

In Search of Heer

The Hindu Way

Rethinking Good Governance

The Best Asian Short Stories 2019

Paper Lions

The Prospect of Miracles

Loss Adjustment

Little Women

Angel’s Beauty Spot

The Doctor and Mrs. A.

Dust Under Her Feet

The Free Voice 

SARE Review of Best Asian Speculative Fiction

No Illusions in Xanadu

Reset: Regaining India’s Economic Legacy

Letters of Blood

The Delicate Balance of Little Lives

Out of Syllabus

Kiswah

Dara Shukoh

You Beneath Your Skin

Bulletproof

Not Native

The Mad Man and Other Stories

She Stoops to Kill

Sightlines

Till The Next Wave Comes

The Reluctant Editor

Indigo Girl

Animalia Indica

The Lone Fox, My Autobiography

The Best Asian Speculative Fiction

The Best Asian Speculative Fiction

Upcountry Tales – Once Upon a Time in the Heart of India

Basanti

Beyond the Fields

Interpreter of Winds

The Map of Bihar and other Stories

The Crooked Line

The Day We Went Strawberry Picking in Scarborough

Billionaire Raj

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi

Voice of  the Runes

Squeaky Wheels

The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian

Beyond the Himalayas

Good Night Papa

That Bird Called Happiness

It’s all Relative

The Butterfly Effect

Lions Cross

Be Present in Every Moment

Becoming

That’s How Mirai Eats a Pomegranate

Hermitage

The Best Asian Short Stories 2018

Clone

Divided by Partition United by Resilience

Green is the Colour of Memory

A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Best Indian Poetry 2018

Losing Kei

Patna Blues

Ultimate Grandmother Hacks

Book of Prayers for the nonbeliever

State of Emergency

Not Elegy, But Eros

The Town that Laughed

The Who-Am-I Bird

I Sing the Glory of this Land

Table Manners

Invisible Ties

Vegetarian India

Daughters of the Sun

Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney

The Hippie Trail

Vital Possessions

B-Sides and Backslides

Revolt of the Lamebren

Food of the Islamic World

Feast: Food of the Islamic World

Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings

Shillong Times

Crow Dusk

Eleventh Hour

The Boat People

Karno’s Daughter

Reclamation Song

Senserly Amako

Reshaping Art

The Sunlight Plane

A Clock in the Far Past

The Sacred Sorrow of Sparrows

A Bombay in My Beat

The Circle of Life and Other Stories

The Scorpion

To My Violin

Karl Marx in Kalbadevi

Woman to Woman Stories

Missing

Paper Asylum

The Bamboo Stalk

A Different Sky

Elixir

The Wounds of the Dead

Ladders Against the Sky

Indian Cultures as Heritage

Hayavadana

Truth or Dare

A Faceless Evening and Other Stories

Frazil

A Bit of Earth by Suchen Christine Lim

Lullaby of the Ever-Returning

Louisiana Catch

Strangers No More: New Narratives from India’s Northeast

The Guru Who Came Down from the Mountain

Love and the Turning Seasons

The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community

Geoffrey Manning BAWA: Decolonizing Architecture

This House of Clay and Water

Memories Cached

Spaceman of Bohemia

Tweet

Sanskarnama

The River’s Song

Wayfaring

The Lucknow Cookbook

Djinn City

Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day

Hills of Slow Time

1984: India’s Guilty Secret

Veils, Halos & Shackles

Mirror Image

Vegetarians Only

The Perennial Journey

Boy of Fire and Earth

She Wore Red Trainers

Wet Radio and other poems

When Wings Expand

The Best Asian Short Stories

Asia Reborn by Prasenjit K. Basu

Blind by Joginder Paul

The Inheritance Powder by Hilary Standing

The Librarian by Kavitha Rao

Available Light by C.P. Surendran

Snowfed Waters by Jane Wilson-Howarth

Sur’s Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition — A 21st Century Rendition

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Adventure Stories of Great Writers

Immoderate Men by Shikhandin

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Eve out of her Ruins by Ananda Devi

A Tenant of the World by Madhura Banerjee

The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam

Leaves from Kashmir by Saba Shafi

The Never Mind Girl and Other Stories by Rosmarie Somaiah

Joining the dots by Goirick Brahmachari 

The Party Worker by Omar Shahid Hamid 

The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction

An Ode to Shimla by Sanjeev Bansal 

Akbar in the Time of Aurangzeb by Shazi Zaman 

Horizon Afar by Jayanthi Sankar

The Life & Poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar by Aslam Parvez

The Trial of Four by Manjiri Prabhu

Yours Etcetera by Ikhtisad Ahmed 

Dvarca by Madhav Mathur

Sauptik: Blood and Flowers by Amruta Patil

In the Garden of My Freedom by Rukmini Dey

Things to leave behind by Namita Gokhale 

India’s Wars: A Military History, 1947 – 1971 by Arjun Subramaniam

Monk on a Hill by Guru T. Ladakhi

From the Closet of the Heart

Ice: A Farooq Reshi Investigation by Praveen Swami

This Wide Night by Sarvat Hasin

The Jeera Packer by Prashant Yadav

Knowledge, Mediation and Empire: James Tod’s Journeys Among the Rajputs by Florence D’Souza

Orpheus in Kolkata by Joe Winter

The Bearded Chameleon by Chris Mooney-Singh

Gandhi on Non-Violence edited by Thomas Merton

Three Days of Catharsis by Atrayee Bhattacharya

Dark Diamond By Shazia Omar

My Elementary Life by Amit Sharma

The Girl who Ran Away in a Washing Machine by Anu Kumar

Managing the Journey through Rough Terrain by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh  

The Temple Road by Fazlur Rahman

Emperor Chandragupta by Adity Kay

The Remnant Glow by Meera Chakravorty and Elsa Maria Lindqvist

Lanka’s Princess by Kavita Kane

Feet in the Valley by Aswini Kumar Mishra

Kappa Quartet by Daryl Qilin Yam

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor

The Book of Calamities by Peter Trachtenberg

I Want to Destroy Myself: A Memoir by Malika Amar Shaikh

A Full Night’s Thievery by Mitra Phukan

When the Wind Blows and Other Poems by Ashish Khetarpal

For the Love of Pork by Goirick Brahmachari

Exile: Memoir by Taslima Nasrin 

The Sand Libraries of Timbuktu by Rohinton Daruwala

An Ember from Her Pyre by Shelly Bhoil

Singapore, My Country: Biography of M Bala Subramanion by Nilanjana Sengupta

Farthest Field by RaghuKarnad

A Year In Himachal by Humera Ahmed

Rise of Rural Consumers in Developing Countries by Vijay Mahajan

The Sleepwalker’s Dream by Dhrubjyoti Borah

The Silk of Hunger’ by Vinita Agrawal 

Literary Review: Veils, Halos and Shackles

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

“Being The Other: The Muslim in India” by Saaed Naqvi

Four Degrees of Separation by Rochelle Potkar

Heat: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology

Going Home in the Rain and other stories by Monideepa Sahu

This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s fault lines by Barkha Dutt

Hindol Sengupta’s Being Hindu

A Bond So Sacred by Usha Rajagopalan

Kafka in Ayodhya by Zafar Anjum

Safe House by Menka Shivdasani

Return of a King by William Dalrymple

The Sound of SCH by Danielle Lim

‘When Breath Becomes Air’ by Paul Kalanithi

Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translations edited by Malashri Lal 

Urmila by Pervin Saket

Midnight’s Furies by Nisid Hajari

Lunch with a Bigot by Amitava Kumar

Kafka in Ayodhya by Zafar Anjum

‘A Maiden of 29’ by Daya Bhat

‘City of Spies: A Novel,’ by Sorayya Khan

Hansda Sowvendra Sekhar’s ‘The Adivasi Will Not Dance’

Flash Fiction International

Nabina Das’ The House of Twining Roses: When Maps are More than Homes

The Arithmetic of Breasts and Other Stories by Rochelle Potkar

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming’s Hula Hooping

The Seduction of Delhi by Abhay K.

‘Brutal’ by Uday Satpathy

‘Faith and True Love’ by Sangeeta Maheshwari

Fall Winter Collections by Koral Dasgupta

Demons at a Calcutta Playhouse: Kitaab review of ‘The Firebird’ by Saikat Majumdar

Desmond Kon’s ‘Sanctus Sanctus Dirgha Sanctus’

The Upstairs Wife by Rafia Zakaria

The Patna Manual of Style by Siddharth Chowdhury

‘Cracking the Code’ by Ayushmann Khurrana and Tahira Kashyap

Brick Walls: Tales of Hope & Courage from Pakistan by Saadia Faruqi

‘Necropolis’ by Avtar Singh 

RK Biswas’s Breasts and Other Afflictions of Women

A Fistful of Earth by Siddhartha Gigoo

Singular Acts of Endearment’ by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

 Sitakant Mahapatra’s Rotations of Unending Time

India Shastra by Shashi Tharoor

Urdu Poetry’s Seamless Journey

Chandrika Balan’s ’Arya and Other Stories’

The Sacrament of the Goddess and Jaya Nepal!

History and Elemental Law: Review of ‘Iqbal’ by Zafar Anjum

I Didn’t Know Mani Was A Conceptualist by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

Catching the Departed: Too much of a banana

Vinod Rai’s Not Just An Accountant—The Diary of the Nation’s Conscience Keeper

‘The River’s Song’ by Suchen Christine Lim

The Singapore Decalogue by Zafar Anjum

The Last Conception by Gabriel Constans

‘The Gypsy Goddess’ by Meena Kandasamy

Leela Devi Panikar’s ‘Bathing Elephants’

‘The Lives of Others’ by Neel Mukherjee

Many Roads Through Paradise: An anthology of Sri Lankan Literature

A Box of Stolen Moments by Usha Bande

Culling Mynahs and Crows by RK Biswas

Vineetha Mokkil’s ‘A Happy Place and Other Stories’

The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey: A Novel by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Doyali Farah Islam’s YŪSUF and the LOTUS FLOWER

Reading New India: Post-millennial Indian Fiction in English 

The Arbitrary Sign-The Most Misunderstood Alphabet Book in The World

City Adrift

I Ate Tiong Bahru

Amar Aiyaar: King of Trciksters

Land Where I Flee

This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition

Nazi Goreng

Brahma Dreaming

The End of the World

Toraja: Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Blue Vessel

A Matter of Rats

Hotel Calcutta

The Trade Winds of Meluha

The Bliss and Madness of Being Human

A Fort of Nine Towers

Kith and Kin

Kith and Kin

The Singapore Decalogue

The Singapore Decalogue

Govinda

Monkey Man

Riddle of the Seventh Stone

Between the Assasinations

Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European

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