With the virus out of control, the government’s inaction has been called a ‘genocide’

Sikh volunteers and others have created facilities to get oxygen to those in dire need

Hospitals appeal for oxygen by invoking India’s constitutional right to protection of life

‘Whenever India and Pakistan fight, we are the first ones to suffer

Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

Arundhati Roy’s new novel has made her a target for violent threats from the Indian government but she’s not about to back down

The winner of the 2014 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award gave herself two years to write her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither. But she remains torn between fiction and visual art

In the week that the 2014 Man Booker Prize was announced, see if you can match these opening lines to their Booker winning novels

Shortlisted this week for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, Audrey Magee’s ‘The Undertaking’ has the second World War as its backdrop. Here’s a selection of our favourite literary quotations on war

A sustained counter-narrative of social injustice pours polemical scorn on India’s smug elite

Limits to the power of state surveillance in digital age must be enshrined in law

Though it’s never easy, it is possible to pursue your dreams and be a mother