Indian literature

Book Reviews

• Zahiruddin Babur: The Baburnama
  Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
• Upamanyu Chatterjee: English, August*
  - a comic novel about working for the Indian government
• Upamanyu Chatterjee: The Last Burden*
  - a merciless dissection of an Indian family
• Bhatta Jayanta: Much Ado About Religion
  - a Sanskrit religious drama from 900 AD
• Manu Joseph: Serious Men
  - love and politics in an Indian research institute
• R.K. Narayan: The World of Nagaraj
  - a loveable but ineffectual dilettante in small-town India
• R.K. Narayan: The Mahabharata; The Ramayana
  - an accessible English abridgment
• Arya Sura: Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala
  - morality tales about lives of the Buddha
• O.V. Vijayan: The Legends of Khasak*
  - interwoven stories of life and death in a South Indian village

See also: India | world literature

This includes literature from South Asia, in English as well as in translation.