In The Bitter-Fruit Tree and Other Stories, Prakash Parienkar uncovers another Goa, where Sattari’s forests pay the price for modern progress.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
It seems entirely fitting that this vivid, slow-burning novel was awarded this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The author of A Return to Self on what it means to be a writer exiled from his home country.| | Frontline
Father-son duo Vijay and Akshay Lokapally, the authors of Net Flicks, discusses the past, present, and future of Indian badminton.| | Frontline
Guevara has many more claims to fame and continued relevance than being a mere guerilla leader and a military theorist.| | Frontline
Beginning at the moment of his death, this book moves on to capture the iconic story of Hashmi’s life and the city that formed the milieu of his work.| Frontline
Historian Shonaleeka Kaul’s new book gathers wide-ranging essays on India’s past, written without the trappings of academic jargon.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The author of The Adivasi Will Not Dance on how government censorship changed his writing approach, and more.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Remembering the poet, fiction-writer, and ethnographer Temsula Ao (1945-2022).| Frontline
The book discusses the role of the missionaries among the Nagas and argues that Christianity spread rapidly from the 1940s among them and became their window to modernity and new cultural aspirations.| Frontline
This graphic non-fiction work animates the people and places associated with the momentous event.| Frontline
Avinash Paliwal’s India’s Near East: A New History is about the complex set of forces and actors that shaped an entire region east of West Bengal, which the author terms “near east”. The “new history” is a deep dive into India’s domestic and foreign policies in three parts of this near east: one within and two outside, each politically separated from the other by international boundaries yet densely linked and sundered by identity, the flows of people and goods, and a shared co...| Frontline
An exclusive excerpt from The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra, revealing the hypocrisies of modern liberal democracies, the resurgence of ethno-nationalism, and the ideological shifts shaping the post-Gaza world, as it examines Germany’s Nazi legacy, its complex relationship with Israel, and the political contradictions defining global power dynamics.| Frontline
A fresh translation of the Tamil writer Salma’s first novel, a richly detailed study of feminist street theatre in India, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
An excerpt from Believer’s Dilemma about Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s role in the Assam crisis, which ultimately resulted in the Nellie massacre of 1983.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Three anthologies of early Indian short fiction show patriarchy’s many faces—and ask whether we have moved beyond colonial-era prejudice.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The book Missing from the House spotlights a glaring deficit in India’s plural democracy—the systemic exclusion of Muslim women from political power.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sanjaya Baru’s new book tracks how India’s wealthy are abandoning the nation, taking their money, talent, and future with them.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Pamela Philipose tracks how “reasonable restrictions” shrank into blunt instruments, leaving India’s news media framed by state, market, and law.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Why India’s Constitution is best understood as a terrain of contestation between different, often conflicting, ideas about power.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sundar Sarukkai’s new novel captures the tensions of a transforming city—if you can get past the clichés.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The writer died last year, but his verse lives on—poetry that “stuns with its irony and melts with its pathos” while refusing comfortable lies.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
In reimagining the tribal ascetic’s tale, the author strips away layers of hierarchy to reveal the original Ramayana.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Mou Banerjee’s thought-provoking book shows how Christian conversions in colonial Bengal shaped debates on caste, inheritance, and nationalism.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sayantan Ghosh’s book chronicles the Aam Aadmi Party’s “evolution” from anti-corruption crusader to just another political outfit seeking power.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Award-winning writer Jerry Pinto reflects on his lifelong love of books, translation, and why India’s literary future depends on valuing regional language voices.| Frontline
Engerman’s Apostles of Development traces how six South Asian economists carried Cambridge ideas into the tangled politics of growth and inequality.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The uneasy fusion of two narrative modes leaves the novel stranded between adult fiction and children’s literature.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Jane Austen died 250 years ago, but her wit lives on, as this imagined letter to her sister Cassandra testifies.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
K. Srilata uses the form of dramatic monologue deftly to make five magnificent women from the Mahabharata reveal their innermost selves.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
In Lores of Love and Saint Gorakhnath, Nalin Verma and Lalu Yadav revive the saint’s syncretic legacy, contrasting it with Hindutva’s narrow politics.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Ajaz Ashraf’s Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste unpacks the violent clash between anti-caste movements and Brahminical forces, revealing how caste, class, and state power intersect in Maharashtra’s political landscape and the erosion of democratic rights in contemporary India.| Frontline
The writer, journalist, and human rights activist calls book bans a mark of decline. He reflects on jail readings, censorship, and how silencing authors threatens India’s democracy.| Frontline
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy writes of love that wounds and shelter that storms, tracing the fierce bond with Mary Roy.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Shikwa-e-Hind offers an extended, evidence-rich and calmly argued rebuff to monolithic, reified characterisations of India’s 200 million or so people of Muslim faith or culture or both. The author, Mujibur Rehman, reminds us of the complexity, richness, and variety of the country’s largest religious minority, and the intricate ways in which what he calls its “historically dense identity” is woven into India’s history and material reality.| Frontline
A controversial Hindi novel exploring queer identity now in English translation, the stories of 18 Muslim women MPs, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Jeet Thayil’s fifth novel could be commended for being boldly experimental, but the way it veers between fiction and documentary is confusing.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The untold legacy of India’s second Prime Minister whose “granular approach” shaped India’s food security and farmer rights.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The life and career of the military hero, who was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra for gallantry in the first India-Pakistan war.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This biography by Sachin Nandha is a work of unsubstantiated hagiography, not serious intellectual history.| Frontline
A deep dive into Dhirendra K. Jha’s critical biography of M.S. Golwalkar reveals the hidden history, ideological roots, and political strategies that shaped the RSS and its enduring impact on Indian nationalism.| Frontline
Sheela Rohekar’s Miss Samuel: A Jewish Indian Saga is a powerful novel exploring the fading Bene Israeli community in India, cultural identity, and resilience across generations.| Frontline
Sachin Kundalkar’s translated novel is a jaw-dropping achievement, packing multitudes of meaning in the space of just 111 pages.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
India’s cannabis laws ban ganja but allow bhang—why? Karan Madhok’s Ananda explores its history, medicinal potential, and farmers’ struggles under the NDPS Act.| Frontline
Thenmozhi Soundararajan calls for radical empathy and solidarity to break the cycle of inequality and injustice.| Frontline
The Silguri-born writer reflects on her provincial roots, growing up amid a scarcity of books, and why writers must resist market-driven trends to stay true to their imagination.| Frontline
Sitaram Yechury’s The Fight for the Republic exposes RSS’s Hindu Rashtra vision, linking it to fascism.| Frontline
They are written by women who have either grown up in the old city or hold it dear to their hearts and are grappling with its ever-changing landscape.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
K. Sridhar’s bold novel Ajita traverses 2,500 years to excavate a radical Indian philosophy and its inconvenient truths.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A novel that harks back to Kerala’s naxalite movement, a book on the invisible lives that enable our digital ease, and more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This anthology of 22 short stories translated from Tamil prompts critical reflection on identity, belonging, and the boundaries of the medium.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Omar Ahmed scans how India’s parallel cinema gave voice to the marginalised—and why it faltered in the shadow of liberalisation and majoritarian rule.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Ideas meant to challenge colonial power are now being used to justify myth and religion in India, with real costs to science and secularism.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Bishnu Mohapatra’s poetry channels rain as a political voice, articulating class and caste identities through an Ambedkarite lens of social justice.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s meditation on modern violence explores Gandhi’s last superhuman struggle, mounted in the face of communal frenzy.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The quest for the mythical river Saraswati, the legacy of the 1955 Bandung Conference on non-alignment, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
With humour, clarity, and many discomforts, Meet the Savarnas offers a long-overdue mirror to caste privilege disguised as cultural sophistication.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The mother-son story is myth. The mother-daughter story is messier, and far more honest. Indian literature has finally started telling it.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Why Pamuk, whose oeuvre is already full of autobiographical works, chose to publish yet another personal document remains a mystery.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Kavery Nambisan writes across language and history, telling a story of migration, caste, and class with an insider’s clarity.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF breaks form, tone, and expectation, and demands a reading that is anything but passive.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Ravi K. Mishra’s book attempts to reframe India’s delimitation debate with a historical approach but falls short on quantitative rigour.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People maps how Facebook grew into global infrastructure without building accountability.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The book unpacks how India’s first—and, to date, only—woman Prime Minister was an innate politician, a lover of power, and a ruthless strategist.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The sequel to Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, the untold story of an Indian uprising against the British much before the Revolt of 1857, and more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Keshava Guha’s The Tiger’s Share is a readable and humorously perceptive novel about the capital’s crème de la crème.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Despite some editorial lapses, Tales from the Dawn-lit Mountains is a sumptuous feast of images, moods, and myths from Arunachal Pradesh.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A stirring biography of the vernacular daily reminds us that journalism once stood tall—and that Urdu was the defining voice of the people.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A translated novel reimagining the life of Jesus Christ, an account of the Gandhian movement, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Gopalkrishna Gandhi traces India’s moral and political decline with insight and grace, making this book a compelling read.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Only if they stop mistaking ambition for destiny, says Pascal Nazareth in Historical Perspectives, which dissects history’s loudest collapses.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This early instance of eco-fiction by the Tamil writer Sa Kandasamy has not aged well, even with a fresh translation.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This political novel could be enjoyed more entertainingly as a Hitchcockian story of abnormal psychology or a television soap opera.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This mischievous novel about a writer struggling to compose an essay on compassion has to be read without judgment to be enjoyed to the fullest.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A memoir that captures the magic and mayhem of the Indian Railways.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
True to Adil Jussawalla’s identity as an Anglophile cosmopolitan, the prose pieces go here, there, everywhere, while being loosely anchored to Bombay.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A thriller set in Delhi’s posh Panchsheel area, biography of Raghunath Dhondo Karve, personal narratives of three historians, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Kancha Ilaiah’s The Shudra Rebellion rewrites history from below, where spades built cities and obedience was not a choice.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A nuanced investigation into Bengaluru’s “speculative urbanism” and how citizens’ innovation and survival hold the city together.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Set in the shadow of Japanese invasion and Tagore’s death, this ambitious novel charts the lives of ordinary and eccentric characters navigating Calcutta’s most volatile and vibrant wartime years—with art, politics, and memory at its heart.| Frontline
In an exclusive interview, the writer, activist, and advocate reflects on her literary journey, the feminist legacy of the Bandaya movement, and how her stories confront patriarchy, social hierarchies, and the silence around Muslim women’s lives.| Frontline
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah reflects on migration, shifting identities, and how global change shapes both opportunity and exclusion in postcolonial societies, as explored in his novel Theft, and beyond.| Frontline
Rich with research and replete with anecdotes, Mani Shankar Aiyar’s book on Rajiv Gandhi is an excellent contribution to literature on the political history of India and South Asia.| Frontline
From frontline dispatches to government-aligned memoirs, a deep dive into how Indian correspondents documented the LTTE conflict—and why the full story may still remain untold.| Frontline
His essays, now in English, map a tradition negotiating colonial modernity without losing its voice.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
This exciting contribution to South Asian LGBTQ studies underscores the imagery of “boy-love” or lyric queerness as a stylistic feature of the ghazal.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The book chronicles the Burmese resistance to military rule and Mizzima’s fearless journalism under the constant threat of a brutal regime.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A history of the subcontinent built from the stories of traders, nuns, slaves, and scholars.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Rosinka Chaudhuri’s India’s First Radicals finally gives Young Bengal its due—cutting through colonial nostalgia and nationalist myth.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The fourth book in a detective novel series set in 1920s Bangalore, the memoirs of a physician who fought to prevent Partition, and more.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
How a Tamil business community dominated 19th-century South-East Asian commerce before colonialism and World Wars cemented its decline.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Krishna Kumar’s Thank You, Gandhi is a set of conversations among two boyhood friends and with Gandhi.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Sabin Iqbal’s Tales from Qabristan offers small-town melancholy and sprawling dysfunction—buried, perhaps, under a landslide of unedited prose.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Aria Aber’s Good Girl aims high with diaspora and desire but drifts in style over substance. A moody debut with little momentum.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The literary sensation Ocean Vuong’s second novel after the bestselling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is grand in gesture but thin on substance.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Robert Macfarlane’s new book is a soulful paean to nature, rich with indigenous and Western voices, deeply felt and meditative.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Dapaan traces Kashmir’s oral traditions—from ladi shah to wanwun—as ways of surviving surveillance, censorship, and state violence with wit intact.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
Perumal Murugan’s essays document how a group of first-generation learners in rural Tamil Nadu defy odds, and how dedicated teachers make it possible.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
Ambi Parameswaran’s Marketing Mixology is a jargon-free guide to mastering consumer understanding, branding, and negotiation. Learn timeless marketing wisdom in an AI-driven world.| Frontline
In revisiting the illustrated Constitution, a new book restores the document’s artistic spirit and political imagination.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline