“The Tiger’s Share” by Keshava Guha
A Delhi novel. About two women. About one’s father. Middle class. Typical Delhi crowd. Patriarchal. Different socio-economic stratifications. While providing a commentary on the changing Delhi, particularly after 2014. An ending that is curious.
Tiger’s Share is Keshava Guha’s second novel.
Read it.
Listen to TOI Bookmark episode with Keshava Guha.
Here is a snippet from the conversation:
It is a relatively new term. So, fifty or sixty years ago there was just fiction. And yes at some level I think people understood that there was a difference between Iris Murdoch and Arthur Hailey, even though you would see them both at the British Council Library or whatever. But the idea was that there were novels and you read those that you liked. The problem with this category of literary fiction is that it can give the false impression that these books are not meant to be enjoyable to read. As if eat your vegetables, take your vitamins kind of reading. So, to that extent it is an unhelpful term. But how I would define it is that I think it is fiction that aspires to the status of art …you are trying to create something of enduring aesthetic value whether it has to do with an idea or a sentence, but it does not mean that it should not be enjoyable to read. You still want people to turn the pages.
15 August 2025
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