As the calendar turned to February 2, 2026, marking what would have been the 111th birthday of Khushwant Singh, the silence from his iconic Sujan Singh Park residence feels particularly loud. Singh ...
The Indian English literary scene is witnessing a refreshing transformation with the emergence of Dr Rishikesh Tewari, a talented author redefining the contours of contemporary Indian writing. With ...
The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories (published by HarperCollins India, 2025) is an anthology of contemporary short stories edited by Anindita Ghose. Its contributors are the crème de la crème of ...
In the spring of 1997, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, became an international sensation, marking a watershed moment in a new wave of Indian writing in English. That June, The ...
From beaches to hilltops, young people are driving a boom in literary events as they read more in India’s dozens of native languages. The Kerala Literature Festival, held in late January in the beach ...
India's regional languages account for 60 per cent of new book sales, yet the national literary conversation remains dominated by English. Three authors writing from Tamil, Kannada, and Assamese ...
Science fiction writer and editor Gautam Bhatia; and the cover of 'Between Worlds'. (Images via Instagram) Open call for submissions to the second in an annual anthology of Indian science fiction will ...
The new NCERT textbook introduced more Indian voices in the Class 9 English syllabus. It replaced earlier books and reduced the number of texts while balancing Indian and international writers.