Fiction

A Fictional President
Donald Trump, as bizarre and unpredictable as a satirical president, ushered us into a world where novels can't outstrip the weirdness of reality.
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Reading In English Consumed Me Like A Disease. Then I Returned To Hindi
While I read English fiction to become better at writing, the story-in-Hindi sucked me in, leaving no time to pay attention to specific phrases and sentences.
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Leesa Gazi On Hellfire: Once A Woman Realises What Its Like To Feel Free, She Cant Willingly Go Back
The writer-filmmaker on the inspiration behind Hellfire, a chilling book about the horrors of patriarchy.
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What Elena Ferrantes New Novel Taught Me About Estrangement and Loneliness
Ferrante gifts her readers the place of an observer, offering an intimate view of a loneliness and frustration that so many of us are familiar with.
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I Spend Weeks Hunting For The Perfect Word: Dharini Bhaskar On Writing Sentences That Hold Music
These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light, Bhaskars debut novel, has been shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature.
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The World Is Finally Catching Up To Manjula Padmanabhan
The writer-illustrators unconventional work had never found the audience it deserved. That may be changing now.
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Writing My Novel Brought Back The Demons Of My Childhood In Kashmir
Shabir Ahmad Mir on bearing witness to the horrors perpetrated in Kashmir with his first novel, The Plague Upon Us.
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Feeling Numb? 10 Writers On What To Read To Just... Feel Something
If youve been finding it hard to pick up a book, this list may help.
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What This Princess And British Agent's Love Story Reveals About Manipur's History
Binodini's book, translated into English by her son L. Somi Roy, is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Princess Sanatombi of Manipur.
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: 12 Sessions You Shouldn't Miss
Elizabeth Gilbert, Manoranjan Byapari, Lela Slimani, Madhur Jaffrey are just a few of the authors headlining panels this year.
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