Nirmal

Grabber inhabits a strange little corner in the world of Indian fiction. An adventure-horror story set during the British occupation of India, it reads like a fictional fusion of Kipling and Bram Stoker, both of whom are cited as influences by the authors. The story’s genesis was a school writing assignment set for Jehan Zachary that this father-son duo polished into a chilling tale. A view of the Taj Mahal in Agra. (Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times) Zachary and Pulickal create an unlikely adventure forged upon…

In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh discusses how contemporary literary fiction has failed to address climate change: “When I try to think of writers whose imaginative work has communicated a more specific sense of the accelerating changes in our environment, I find myself at a loss; of literary novelists writing in English only a handful of names come to mind… The literary mainstream, even as it has become more engagé on many fronts, remains just as unaware of the crisis on our…