Miss Timmins’ School For Girls, Nay-ana Currimbhoy’s debut novel, revolves around a possible murder and its chief narrator Charulata Apte’s life.

The Call Centre industry has been in India for more than a decade, but it has taken us this long to fathom a decent book out of our experience. Brinda S.

The Kashmiri Pandits are one of the most under-addressed victims of turbulence in Kashmir.

Sudeep Chakravarti’s The Avenue of Kings is emotionally honest. The book portrays the mind of the youth in India’s capital and Kolkata going berserk between the 80s and early 90s. The decade was perhaps the one with the greatest unrest and churning, also the one most splintered and debilitating to be carried through in one long story. It does not easily lend itself to one narrative graph, so Sudeep chooses three personal narratives, in three novellas, which are released as one book.

Maureen Gibson’s Thief starts on an interesting premise: Suzanne, a teacher, takes a log cabin near a lake for the summer and puts out a personal advertisement. A rapist responds from jail. Suzanne was raped when she was 16.

Rashmi Bansal works with entrepreneurs. After a successful book on IIM graduates she has now chosen a different kind of entrepreneur to write about.