As Jayan grapples with the ever-widening vortex of fear, suspicion, and criminal behaviour that the murder of the woman has ...

THERE IS A case to be made that, to a Westerner, India is the most interesting place on Earth. This writer had that thought decades ago on the banks of the Ganges river in Varanasi, a city that is ...

India, Oct. 14 -- India is all set to make a vibrant mark at the 77th Frankfurt Book Fair (15-19 October 2025) with a grand showcase of its linguistic, literary and publishing diversity. Under the ...

At a time when many literary novels are becoming shorter and increasingly opaque, the luminous Dream Count – Adichie’s first ...

My mouth was blue from Slurpee and I was wearing my favorite pink SpongeBob shirt as I perused the supermarket’s paperback section. As a 13-year-old raised on a cattle farm, I devoured books ...

While the circle of English-writing authors still behaves as an exclusivist club, some Indian authors have managed to join it. For the purpose of this article, I will focus on authors that write in ...

Amitav Ghosh made history in 1997 as the first Indian author to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award, for “The Calcutta Chromosome.” But Ghosh is just one of many writers of must-read Indian science-fiction ...

“The spark cannot just be kept alive through fighting,” declares one of the characters in Khan Mahboob Tarzi’s novel, “The Break of Dawn.” The words are spoken at the end of the Indian Mutiny (also ...

It is a good story, a neurotic melodrama expertly acted, but, as in any Oriental theatre, its setting must be inferred. Most readers will ignore inaccuracies of detail; they will not care that ...