Archive · 4 Oct 2026
Six New Indian Novels Arrive for October's Festive Season
This article introduces six new Indian novels for October.
All Our Evenings is about three teenagers whose friendship is changed by a violent event.
Zone follows Meiji as she faces trouble and tries to live free of rules imposed on her.
The Pictures of Darpan Ray takes readers into Bollywood, where people struggle with fame, art and money.
Those Boyhood Years tells of boys in love and people involved in resistance under British rule.
Endless Dream jumps through many future years and imagines people living with artificial intelligence.
Extinction follows Leila as she investigates a mysterious box and secrets in her family.
The novels explore very different worlds, from the past to far-off futures.
Ruthvika Rao’s All Our Evenings follows three teenagers whose friendship is shattered by violence, then revisits their lives a decade later.
In Manjula Padmanabhan’s Zone, Meiji tries to escape punishment and restrictive gender roles in a lawless future.
Samit Basu’s The Pictures of Darpan Ray follows friends into Bollywood, where artistic ambition collides with commerce and deception.
Those Boyhood Years, by Shibram Chakraborty and translated by Niladri R Chatterjee, portrays same-sex love and resistance in pre-Independence Bengal.
Gigi Ganguly’s Endless Dream spans distant futures shaped by AI, while Leeya Mehta’s Extinction follows a family secret tied to an enchanted heirloom.
- Who
- The article features six novelists: Ruthvika Rao, Manjula Padmanabhan, Samit Basu, Shibram Chakraborty, Gigi Ganguly and Leeya Mehta.
- What
- An overview of six new Indian novels.
- When
- October; no specific year is stated.
- Where
- The novels are Indian fiction, with stories set in places including Hyderabad, Kolkata and Noida, as well as imagined futures.
- Why
- To introduce readers to six new novels for the festive season.
- Number of novels
- Six
- Feature timing
- October; no year specified
- Source of information
- Publishers
- Translated novel
- Those Boyhood Years, translated from Bengali by Niladri R Chatterjee
- Endless Dream settings
- The novel presents episodes in 2195, 2999, 3809, 4771 and 5823, and asks about events many years later.
- Zone series
- Zone concludes a saga that began with Escape and continued with The Island of Lost Girls.