Top
Home » Varun Andhare
Varun Andhare
About the AuthorVarun Andhare
Varun Andhare is a writer based in New Delhi. He teaches a course in critical writing at Ashoka University, Sonipat.
    Book Review | A Tragic, Disquieting Modern ClassicBooks and Art
    Book Review | A Tragic, Disquieting Modern Classic

    As is often the case with this author, there are plots within plots, multiple narrators, and equally numerous narrative...

    17 Oct 2026 2:52 PM IST

    Book Review | A Blunt-edged Novel Of Marital CollapseBooks and Art
    Book Review | A Blunt-edged Novel Of Marital Collapse

    The First House is Avni Doshi’s second novel, following her Booker-shortlisted debut, Burnt Sugar

    5 Sept 2026 1:06 PM IST

    Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions UnaskedBooks and Art
    Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

    George Saunders revisits themes of death, memory and redemption in a darkly comic afterlife tale, but its moral inquiry...

    14 Jun 2026 12:41 PM IST

    Book Review | What Ails Private Hospitals: A Full DiagnosisBooks and Art
    Book Review | What Ails Private Hospitals: A Full Diagnosis

    In setting about the unenviable task of explaining the wide tangle of acronyms, medical procedures and legislations...

    18 April 2026 10:48 PM IST

    Book Review | In Familiar Rooms, Fresh WondersBooks and Art
    Book Review | In Familiar Rooms, Fresh Wonders

    The sentences in this novel are crafted with a surgeon’s hand. In some stretches, its bloodless proficiency reminded me...

    28 March 2026 12:46 PM IST

    Book Review | An Expedition Weighed Down by Good IntentionsBooks and Art
    Book Review | An Expedition Weighed Down by Good Intentions

    Though it is gratifying to observe the adeptness of the plotting and scale at which it is all accomplished, the...

    28 Feb 2026 12:01 PM IST

    Book Review | A Master’s New Avatar Fails to GripBooks and Art
    Book Review | A Master’s New Avatar Fails to Grip

    In Ghost-Eye, his first work of fiction in seven years and a sequel in more than just spirit to his previous novels The...

    10 Jan 2026 12:21 PM IST

    Book Review | An Account of Life in the Hills of RanikhetBooks and Art
    Book Review | An Account of Life in the Hills of Ranikhet

    Anuradha Roy’s first non-fiction work – an account of life in the hills of Ranikhet – blends memoir and nature-writing...

    27 Dec 2025 12:53 PM IST

    Book Review | City on the Brink, Scantly ImaginedBooks and Art
    Book Review | City on the Brink, Scantly Imagined

    There are times when this works to good effect, as in Majumdar’s previous novel where we follow a PT teacher as he...

    6 Dec 2025 1:23 PM IST

    Book Review | Love and Longing in ’90s MalaysiaBooks and Art
    Book Review | Love and Longing in ’90s Malaysia

    The author, Tash Aw, has been a prize-list regular since his debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, made the longlist...

    22 Nov 2025 12:14 PM IST

    Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?Books and Art
    Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

    The delicacy of observation and lightness of prose on offer here makes for pleasant reading, but often resembles the...

    4 Oct 2025 12:49 PM IST

    Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn ManBooks and Art
    Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn Man

    Though this his sparest work yet, there is a miraculous ease, a literary sleight-of-hand, with which the author...

    20 Sept 2025 3:07 PM IST

    X