South Asian literature

Book Reviews

• Ambai: A Kitchen in the Corner of the House
  - short stories celebrating the lives of Indian women
• Zahiruddin Babur: The Baburnama
  Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
• Buddhadeva Bose: My Kind of Girl
  - "Is the memory of happiness that has passed, happy or sad?"
• 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: The Illicit Happiness of Other People**
  - meaning and madness in a middle class Madras family
• Manu Joseph: Serious Men
  - love and politics in an Indian research institute
• Karthika Naïr: Until the Lions: Echoes From The Mahabharata*
  - poetry with subaltern perspectives within the Indian epic
• R.K. Narayan: The World of Nagaraj
  - a loveable but ineffectual dilettante in small-town India
• R.K. Narayan: The Painter of Signs
  - infatuation and commitment in small town India
• R.K. Narayan: The Mahabharata; The Ramayana
  - an accessible English abridgment
• Paula Richman: Many Ramayanas
  The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
• Salma: Women Dreaming
  - a divorce in a poor Muslim village in Tamil Nadu
• Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan*
  - one of the classic novels of Partition
• 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 | Pakistan | world literature

This includes literature from South Asia — including modern Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh — orginally in English as well as in translation.