The burden and rot of history lead a small Indian town to the precipice of tragedy. Annie Zaidi’s poetic novel Prelude to a Riot is a red flag of violence to come, a siren sound of the irreversible hate that has been brewed in the town—and the larger nation. By Karan Madhok

After the birth of his son, Rajat Mittal began the Boyish project, a series of essays to challenge traditional aspirations of Indian masculinity—financial success, physical strength, and a lack of empathy—that have been emotional hamstrings to men for generations.

Golchakkar Series - The February panel of our virtual literary talk features Sarita Jenamani and Rosalyn D’Mello: Indian Dispatches from Europe.

An isolation hospital, a raging bull, a love rock, and many more stories come together in Eleven Stops to the Present, a new children's book on the history of India’s Silicon Valley - by Barkha Kumari

Golchakkar Series - The January panel of our virtual literary talk features K.S. Subramanian, Mallika Bhaumik, and Amit Shankar Saha: Indian Poetry from the Lockdown.

‘Or perhaps, Pandit Dinanath Awasthi was exhausted. Tired of a large, brabbling family in a small, rented house, he was convinced that it was time to create memories in a home of his own.’ An excerpt from Shubha Sarma’s novel, The Awasthis of Aamnagri (2020).

The latest panel of Golchakkar Series with Abha Iyengar, Gaurav Monga, and Jose Varghese: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction.

In his novel Feral Dreams: Mowgli & His Mothers (2020), award-winning author Stephen Alter revisits Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, taking forward Mowgli’s story, transposing the classic jungle tale into unexplored terrain. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book.

The latest panel of Golchakkar Series with Kaushik Barua and Dipika Mukherjee: A conversation about Non-Indian characters from writers of Indian origin; of authenticity, appropriation, cultural anthropology, and more.

Christopher Raja’s memoir Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story is a tale of isolation, not just from a place, but also from family, and in some ways, from the self. - by Kanika Jain.

Contributors to the anthology Open Your Eyes Vinita Agrawal, Gayatri Chawla, Alex Josephy, and Sudeep Sen, join us in a panel for the Golchakkar Series to discuss what it means to use poetry and literature as a response to climate change.

Why Shashi Tharoor’s satirical 1989 masterpiece The Great Indian Novel—which married India’s recent history with The Mahabharata—is as relevant as ever in today’s polarising times. - by Atulya Pathak