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
In Unknown City, Amitabha Bagchi takes up the tricky project of reassessing the loves of youth from the vantage point of middle age.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Matt Ridley traces how female choice, not male dominance, drove beauty in birds—and why science resisted this uncomfortable truth for so long.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The overwhelming grimness and a jarring note make it difficult for the reader to emotionally invest themselves in this story of sordid crimes.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sanjay Subrahmanyan’s memoir unpacks the musical memories of a thinking musician who constantly assesses himself and his art.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
In this tribute to his friend S.H. Raza, Ashok Vajpeyi does not explain the art; he walks us through the mind that made it.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Hindi poet Geet Chaturvedi says that each of us indulge in a bit of love, a bit of life, and we leave them unfinished.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Philippe Sands follows the aftershocks of Nazi crimes and Pinochet’s arrest, where law meets memory, and justice is not just a courtroom drama.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Vintage Kannada short fiction in translation, a candid meditation on the cruel finality of death, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A hundred years on, E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India endures with its honesty and affection, serving as a mirror in which readers can see themselves.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Oishik Sircar’s book probes how three films frame the Gujarat pogrom—less as closure, more as commentary on justice, memory, and what gets silenced.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
What emerges through Anand’s translation of the 15th century poet-saint’s verses is his own personal Kabir, mediated through Ambedkar and the Buddha.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Spies, Lies and Allies traces the parallel lives of two radical Indian revolutionaries who were equally drawn to nationalism and Marxism.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A spirited study of the lively mid-20th-century “popular” Hindi print cultures and the public sphere that they created.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp brings Kannada protest literature and Muslim women’s voices to the 2025 International Booker stage.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Mark Harman’s richly annotated tribute refines Kafka’s enigma—but beware, some “transformations” might just lead to fresh dead ends.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Viyyukka brings the voices of radical women guerrillas to the fore—fighters who didn’t just pull triggers but also rewrote the rules of narrative.| 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
In Wild Fictions, Amitav Ghosh blends personal narratives with historical analysis to expose the global forces driving migration, environmental destruction, and imperial exploitation. A sharp critique of disaster capitalism, Ghosh’s essays offer a compelling framework for understanding how the past shapes our climate-charged present.| Frontline
R. Mohan’s magisterial history of modern Kerala shows how a political laboratory once hailed by scholars slowly lost the plot.| Latest Politics News | Frontline | Frontline
Author Easterine Kire reflects on her Sahitya Akademi-winning novel Spirit Nights, blending Naga spirituality, oral traditions, and timeless storytelling.| Frontline
In History That India Ignored, veteran journalist Prem Prakash argues that Britain’s support for Pakistan’s creation was driven by Cold War strategy. A compelling alternate history that reinterprets Partition and its geopolitical aftermath.| Frontline
In this incisive interview about his book Reclaiming Bharat, Ashutosh analyses BJP’s setbacks in 2024, RSS-BJP tensions, and how a united Opposition challenged the Hindutva narrative.| Frontline
’A Long Season of Ashes’ by Siddhartha Gigoo chronicles the author’s journey from Kashmir to refugee camps, shedding light on the shared suffering of Pandits and Muslims, and the urgent need for their reunification in the Valley.| Frontline
“Before I Forget” chronicles the Indian theatre icon’s life, Kashmiri Pandit exodus, and cultural activism. Book offers unique perspective on Kashmir’s political turmoil but faces criticism for unbalanced representation.| Frontline
James Baldwin’s exploration of racism, identity, and love in America remains extremely relevant a century after his birth. His words offer clarity and courage to those grappling with systemic oppression, urging readers to confront painful truths and embrace compassion.| Frontline
