Reviews
Balli Kaur Jaswal’s third novel deals with honour killings, vigilante community policing, murder, forbidden love, and a lot more.
Prayaag Akbar’s biggest triumph lies in his ability to adopt a female voice so completely, you forget this is a male author’s debut novel.
The sixth book in Kalpana Swaminathan’s acclaimed Lalli detective series is not for the faint-hearted.
The book explores chauvinism, patriarchy, and the male psyche in an interesting and honest manner.
A book that forces us to confront our own biases, look our carefully crafted ignorance in the eye, and come out of the bubble of privilege we inhabit.
A sense of nostalgia and loss pervades Laksmi Pamuntjak’s ambitious debut novel Amba.
Malik Sajad’s heartwrenching graphic novel traces the generations that grew up in Kashmir post 1990.
Most of what happens in Aliyyah Eniath’s debut novel will be deeply familiar to readers that have grown up up in a large joint family themselves.
An ambitious collection of stories by Manoj Kumar Panda that attempts to tell neglected but significant tales centred around death.
The loss of love is at the heart of the story that Pervin Saket would like to tell with her debut novel Urmila.
The characters in Mahesh Rao’s collection of stories are haunted by a world just beyond their reach.
Vivek Shanbhag’s novel looks hard at the nouveau rich in India and the consequences of wealth on relationships with the community, in-laws, work ethic, and morality.
