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 ...

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 ...

Vincent Raj, popularly known as Evidence Kathir, was a name I had often heard even before I became personally acquainted with ...

"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, ...

Kannanari has a nose for crime – or at least, the making of it. He is interested in the bits and the pieces, the nightmares and foiled dreams, the neglect and indignity that birth a criminal. Almost ...