"Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers." --John le Carré, A Perfect Spy, from the epigraph to Chapter 5 of In the Light of What We Know. I want to talk a bit about this extraordinary book, ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Parini Shroff about her debut novel The Bandit Queens, a story about a woman in an Indian village with a dangerous reputation. To new fiction now and the ...

Sita Bhaskar’s latest novel, ‘Rukmini Aunty’, revisits writer R.K. Narayan’s legacy to explore class, caste, and community in ...

To new fiction now and the story of Geeta, jewelry maker in an Indian village with a dangerous reputation. You see, Geeta is a widow because she killed her husband - at least that is what people think ...