Bindu Menon

Three damaged youths are seduced by a jehadi future, and reflect upon a cold desert

A promising life, cut short, is lived in spirit and connects narratives of other womanhoods

A masterful minimalist with measured tones, Shahryar fused traditional and modern idioms

A culture saturated with patriarchy, identities strapped in curfews and ceasefires—a Northeast anthology on women collates motifs and realities

A sweeping novel reaches back to an early Chinese worker in Assam, and tells the story of his hapless descendant and his kinsmen during the 1962 War

Souls desperate for home, love, deliverance and justice jostle with their stories in a stew, as a sleepless, steel-gray Mumbai watches impassively