With sharp, poetic force, Meena Kandasamy lays bare the psychology of domestic abuse, exposing how patriarchy and social hypocrisy enable violence behind closed doors.
Volga reimagins Sita’s exile as a journey of freedom, where women reject obedience, question dharma, and redefine desire beyond patriarchal myth.
Rupa Bajwa traces the quiet ambitions of a sari shop salesman in Amritsar, revealing how class, language, and desire quietly police social mobility.
Hasan’s novel offers an ironic, clear-eyed look at India’s cosmopolitan elite, questioning authenticity, cultural capital, and who truly gets to speak for art.
A tender, unsettling meditation on belonging, The Inheritance of Loss shows how love, ambition, and displacement collide across generations and continents.
A sharp debut about young Indian men caught between entitlement and uncertainty. Quarterlife captures post-2014 India through fractured lives searching for purpose in a shifting nation.
Through Jaya’s inner reckoning, this novel exposes what marriage often conceals, unspoken desires, suppressed anger, and the emotional labour women are expected to endure.
Set against the upheaval of Partition, this novel traces women’s fights for autonomy as deeply entwined with political change, where personal choices echo across generations.