NAWAID ANJUM
Any place is a great place to read: A woman in her shop in New Delhi. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) Reviewer’s pick: Tenderness by Alison MacLeod A dialogue across time with Lady Chatterley: Canadian-British author Alison MacLeod’s book fuses fact and fiction in a joyous celebration of DH Lawrence’s most controversial novel
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SYED SAAD AHMED
Reviewer’s picks: Ibn-e-Insha’s Duniya Gol Hai (The World is Round) and Pranay Lal’s Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent . Blips in Time: Obsessively reading travelogues and books on natural history as a consequence of being homebound
SIMAR BHASIN
Reviewer’s pick: Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic Where the future became an ending: an exposition of a world order that posits itself as a liberal force while sticking to hierarchies
PERCY BHARUCHA
Reviewer’s pick: Carvalho by KP Purnachandra Tejasw, translated by DA Shankar Weaving between satire and surrealism: A novel that evokes a childish sense of joy in exploring the uncertain
MAHMOOD FAROOQUI
Reviewer’s pick: Peechhe Phirat Kahat Kabir Kabir by Mujib Rizvi The give and take that created Indo-Muslim culture: How the verses of Rumi and Sadi found a new avatar as dohas in India’s Persianate Age
LAMAT R HASAN
Reviewer’s pick: Chandni Begum and Ship of Sorrows by Qurratulain Hyder, translated by Saleem Kidwai Found in translation: Saleem Kidwai’s translations of Qurratulain Hyder’s novels bring out the author’s command over the Urdu idiom
SUHIT KELKAR
Reviewer’s pick: Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit Running through every coppice: Pascale Petit’s ecopoetry opens up the reader to remorse, compassion, hope, and perhaps Nature within us
RONNIE KX
Reviewer’s pick: The Goblin Emperor by Kathleen Addison The comfort of worlds unfamiliar: Dragons, mermaids, goblins and gods and reflections on class and desire in 1780s London
CHINTAN GIRISH MODI
Reviewer’s pick: The House Next to the Factory by Sonal Kohli Doing their best to survive; Sonal Kohli’s short stories are snapshots of lives that are made and unmade by marriage, war, miscarriage, widowhood, genocide, disability, and economic misfortunes
SONALI MUJUMDAR
Reviewer’s pick: Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster Rediscovering an old gem: A short epistolary novel written in 1912 features the coming-of-age tale of an orphan. The author Jean Webster, who also happened to be Mark Twain’s niece, wrote more than half a dozen novels before she died at 40
THANGKHANLAL NGAIHTE
Reviewer’s pick: In the Name of the Nation by Sanjib Baruah On the dreaded past and the precarious present: Fascism, democracy, India’s relationship with its northeastern states, and local memoirs
KUNAL RAY
Reviewer’s pick: A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes by Rodrigo Garcia Living, writing, death and loss: A son watches his father slip away while the world grieves the loss of a favourite writer
HUZAN TATA
Reviewer’s picks: The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Ira Mukhoty’s Song Of Draupadi Historical women in the spotlight: The last queen of the Sikh empire and a feminist take on an Indian epic
FARZANA VERSEY
Reviewer’s picks: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun About words, said and unsaid: Of storytelling that takes the reader to the heart of characters, to their acceptance or denial of identity, and to their exploitation and predation.
