A collection of 45 essays and stories written by several Indian writers, The Book of Dog brings the canine-human connection front-and-centre: the dogs we love, adopt, lose, and remember forever. By Chittajit Mitra

Sayan Aich Bhowmik’s debut collection, I Will Come with a Lighthouse (Hawakal Publishers) dissolves the space between innate and extraneous, past and present, dreams and disillusionments, commonplace and cosmic, seamlessly flitting through rooms, cities, memory, borders and history. By Ritoshree Chatterjee

In Zilka Joseph’s new collection In Our Beautiful Bones, Chintan Girish Modi celebrates the in-betweenness of cultures, the confluence of food, culture, politics, religion, and beauty from the vantage point of an Indian displaced abroad.

A true Indian tale of agrarian crisis, caste, and gender inequalities, is brought together in the graphic narrative, Raindrop in the Drought—the story of Godavari Dange. By Priyanka Chakrabarty

Head of design at Penguin Random House India Ahlawat Gunjan discusses the art of book covers, the collaboration of literature and design, of sales and inspiration, and the magic process making it all come together. By Varud Gupta

MP and author Shashi Tharoor speaks about the legacy of B.R. Ambedkar, the British Rule, and puts forth an argument for a presidential system of governance in India. By Medha Dutta Yadav

New visions of the past, fresh perspectives on the present, and big questions for the future. From Barkha Dutt and Nandita Iyer to Ramachandra Guha and Neerja Chowdhury, Saurabh Sharma previews the most-anticipated Indian non-fiction releases in 2022.

Much of the novel Legal Fiction is about the facts only understood as fiction, and the fictions that should never interfere with facts. Chandan Pandey’s story shines in the uncomfortable confluence of the real and imagined in a dangerous New India. By Karan Madhok

In another difficult year of the pandemic, many of us leaned deeper into the contemplation of literature. From Rijula Das and Josy Joseph, to Amitava Kumar and Shrayana Bhattacharya, Saurabh Sharma presents his twenty favourite Indian books of the year.

‘The ground is shifting… It is symptomatic of a tension, a threat.’ Writer, academician, and filmmaker Anubha Yadav spoke about the process behind her book Scripting Bollywood: Candid Conversations with Women Who Write Hindi Cinema, feminism in the Hindi film industry, and much more. By Shibani Phukan

In his Booker-shortlisted novel A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam masterfully uses stream of consciousness to meditate upon longing and desire, in a country where war and violence slowly recede against the humdrum of everyday life. By Priyanka Chakrabarty

Delhi-based artist Mocaine’s ambitious multi-disciplinary project The Birth of Billy Munro is a dark and nihilistic narrative of music, prose, and film. While an imperfect patchwork of borrowed inspirations, the culmination is still unlike anything else in the Indian indie scene. By Karan Madhok