The veteran Marathi litterateur, Sharankumar Limbale’s Sanatan (translated by Paromita Sengupta) is among the most ambitious ...

Amrita Mahale’s Real Life, published seven years after the publication of her acclaimed debut novel Milk Teeth, is the story ...

In Shivmurti’s 2010 novel, the molestation of a young woman reveals the deep impact of caste in judicial procedures.

A Nigerian novelist and short story writer, Adaora Ogunniyi, has unveiled her latest work, The Steel Gavel. This novel explores how the Osu caste system continues to influence marriage decisions in ...

In this essay, Antony Arul Valan examines how R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi embeds caste hierarchies in everyday language rather ...

To new fiction now and the story of Geeta, jewelry maker in an Indian village with a dangerous reputation. You see, Geeta is a widow because she killed her husband - at least that is what people think ...

"Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers." --John le Carré, A Perfect Spy, from the epigraph to Chapter 5 of In the Light of What We Know. I want to talk a bit about this extraordinary book, ...