Indian Writing

Indian writers who defined the decade, from Siddhartha Mukherjee to Sujatha Gidla, Perumal Murugan

Through conversations with columnists, critics and authors, collated here is a list of Indian writers across several languages who created insightful literature, and delightful reading through the 2010s.

A decade in Indian writing: Jerry Pinto's fiction to Sampurna Chattarji’s poetry, notes on 10 years of reading

Thinking over the 2010s in Indian English writing for a decade retrospective, I knew that this would be, in part, a piece about growing up, writes Aditya Mani Jha

Alpa Shah on Nightmarch, her Orwell Prize-longlisted account of journeying into India’s Naxal heartland

Alpa Shah’s journey through India's Naxal belt with a guerrilla platoon is documented in her 2018 book, Nightmarch. This year, the title has been longlisted for the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

Crossword Book Awards: Shashi Tharoor, Snigdha Poonam win honours at 16th edition

Ruskin Bond and Soha Ali Khan won awards in the Popular category at the latest edition of the Crossword Book Awards

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi on The Rabbit & the Squirrel, writing about friendships and love

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi speaks about how a wrote for a friend turned into an illustrated book, his writing and his affinity for the sea

Keki N Daruwalla on his latest novel Swerving to Solitude, telling an Emergency story using imagination

Keki N Daruwalla's latest novel is set in Lucknow and tells the story of a young journalist who is a critic of the Emergency. The story is told through the letters she writes to her mother

The Town That Laughed book review: Fictional setting fails Manu Bhattathiri's well-etched characters

Though The Town That Laughed draws well on the eccentricities of small-town people, it does precious little for the fictional town it is set in — Karuthupuzha

Benyamin on his new book Jasmine Days, writing about the Arab Spring and the beauty of Malayalam

Benyamin speaks about the politics embedded in his works and how he uses writing as an outlet for the pain he experiences

French vs Taseer: Indians need to reclaim their history

Patrick French thinks Indians are suspicious of foreign writers about India. It's not as simple as that, as Aatish Taseer notes in his counter-view.