An extraordinary debut novel that moves seamlessly between myth, history, and reportage

A fairly ordinary prose about a not-so-ordinary life, it feeds off an assortment of experiences, loiters off into poetic tangents and drops epiphanies as truth bombs.

Set in the Andaman Islands in the decade prior to India’s freedom in 1947, it is the story of bleak and blighted lives caught in the vortex of history. It is also the story of wanton and gratuitous wartime cruelties.

The journey of a Naga man, from violent displacement from his land to the stance of forgiveness, is a political fable for our times

Two ambitious, engaging anthologies that navigate the best that Indian science fiction has to offer

In its first part, Malevolent Republic asks a difficult question? Can dynastism and authoritarianism be traced to the times when the country was at its democratic best? Komireddi does not absolve India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru in this respect.

Books, though, have done their bit to fill that void and the memoir by the host of the American television show, The Daily Show, had been a good addition to the genre.

The language and imagery in Subramaniam’s volume fairly sizzles.

Jawaharlal Nehru granted special status to Sikkim in 1947, overriding Vallabhbhai Patel and BN Rau, who equated Sikkim with other members of the Chamber of Princes.

The layers upon layers of Raj Kamal Jha’s new novel dress the collective wound of a nation

In Beyond the Boulevard, Aditi Sriram offers a deeper look at this quaint little town — aspects of which, the average tourist might catch a glimpse of as she speeds down the narrow streets on a hired bike.

Perhaps the most debated and certainly the most divisive, “movement” in modern Bengali poetry is that of the Hungry Generation, whose founders and followers were labelled “Hungryalists”.

An intriguing debut novel that explores the toxic remains of the American dream

While Good Talk succeeds in mapping out the cycle of belonging and unbelonging that is constantly explored in immigrant and diasporic narratives, often it feels too self-reflexive and submerged in its inner conflicts to offer a glimpse at a larger picture.

The ceasefire violations across the LoC between India and Pakistan and the seeds of conflict they contain

The life and times of Delhi’s leading poets of the Mughal era and their enrichment of a syncretic language

An exhaustive documentation of the intellectual legacy of Bhagat Singh

This is a reader’s private journey through a poet’s inner self, witnessing a poet’s soul-searching. I feel like an intruder in a private space, peeping into a creator’s innermost self.

A tale about the tribulations of a young woman that resonates with our times, but falters in form

An exhaustive but accessible translation of a crucial mythological text

How Paddy Upton became the calm centre holding together the Indian cricket team

Vignettes tracing the pioneers of Nepal’s democracy and their struggle for freedom in the 1940s

Looking back, Preet Bharara explores the right, wrong and legally tenuous facets of the law

Arun Kumar’s criticism of GST doesn’t factor in recent structural revisions, and exhibits confirmation bias