From the Sahitya Akademi to the Booker Prize, these award-winning books by Indian authors offer emotional gravity, poetic ...

The world is in turmoil politically and socially, with wars being waged on two fronts. The year saw extreme weather events with hurricanes, cyclones, too much heat, too much rain, making climate ...

Rushdie says in the introduction to the novel that in the west people tend to read the novel “as a fantasy” while in India readers think of it as “pretty realistic, almost a history book”.

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...

It is the first time that the award has been given to a collection of short stories. "Heart Lamp" is the first book written ...

Saikia is one of the most successful and acclaimed practitioners of crime fiction in India. His recurring character, Detective Arjun Arora, has been featured in four books so far, most recently ...

Nita starts telling the child’s mother a story from ancient India, where Darius, a sailor, arrives at an Indian port seeking his fortune. As she tells this tale, making it up as she goes ...

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow ... the year Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book, “Interpreter of Maladies,” a collection of stories about ...

“When women write books, they write about what ... Social anthropologist and fiction writer Susan Visvanathan says, “Earlier, Indian writers used to depict the mother as a pivotal figure ...