Hangwoman

Chetna is born into a family of executioners. When the state appoints her India's first woman executioner, justice becomes spectacle—and an inherited profession becomes a battle over who controls her story.

Qabar

A judge and a claimant meet over a disputed grave. The case soon gives way to a haunting exploration of history, faith and desire—of everything the law cannot quite contain.

Assassin

Satyapriya survives an attack and begins to search for the man who wanted her dead. The hunt becomes an excavation of family, fear and political violence.

The Poison of Love

Tulsi renounces the world after betrayal, but desire proves more enduring than distance. A fierce novella about devotion's poisonous double.

Yellow Is the Colour of Longing

Stories of marriage, memory, sexuality and solitude, told with lyrical intensity and a sharp eye for the fault lines beneath domestic life.

The Gospel of Yudas

A young woman's fascination with a former revolutionary and diver opens a submerged history of political idealism, torture, guilt and impossible love.

The Unseeing Idol of Light

The Angel's Beauty Spots

And Slowly Forgetting That Tree...