KR Meera’s writing is always difficult to define or tie down to one genre or theme. Her latest novella Qabar is no different. From the first page on, the story is both real life and a fairy tale. Is ...

Qabar, translated from the original in Malayalam by Nisha Susan, is everything you are looking for when you pick a K.R. Meera book. You have women protagonists who leave a stamp on you with the core ...

Word of caution: Don’t be taken in by the slimness of KR Meera’s Qabar. At just over a hundred pages, this novella is part social commentary and part journey of self-discovery, with a soupçon of a ...

K.R. Meera’s magic-realism-suffused novella, Qabar, can seem like a conundrum at first, making you wonder about its true essence. But then you realise that the work defies specificity and ...