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This hilarious take-off on spy fiction makes it hard to take espionage seriously
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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The stories behind the story of Albert Camus’s ‘The Stranger’ (and how it came to be published)
Anu Kumar
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Meditations on being an independent publisher
Naveen Kishore
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Five books for children that adults must read
Devapriya Roy
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Ramayana reimagined: Was Ravan actually in love with Sita?
Kavita Kané
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All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family mourns its dead in its own way (as Kitty knows)
Ivan Arthur
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Stalked, patronised, dismissed: On being a woman writer in Pakistan (it’s often the same in India)
Shazaf Fatima Haider
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From the beginning: How the politician’s journey started at the age of twelve
Manju Kapur
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From Pakistan: The famous satire we haven’t read all these years (it’s from 1964)
Muhammad Khalid Akhtar
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From a nightmare: What if you cannot find your way out of the mall?
Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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From the North-East: Where folklore and fiction mingle to become one
Easterine Kire
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A walk in the footsteps of Guru Nanak, before he was born
Haroon Khalid
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With despair and disquiet (and some healing) from Assam, these stories marry fact to fiction
Neha Bhatt
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Now we know what Haruki Murakami thinks about when he thinks about music
Arunima Mazumdar
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The follow-up to 'The Little Prince' is a preachy self-help manual (and an insult to the original)
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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What can we expect from a novel by a former newspaper editor about the murder of the CEO?
Aditya Sinha
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Why India cannot win wars against its neighbours (and why that doesn’t even matter)
Pravin Sawhney Ghazala Wahab
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What happens in cashless societies? Five answers from science fiction
Arnab Chakraborty
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Ten literary trends we’re staring at in India in 2017
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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The books that mattered to India’s independent publishers in 2016
Shashank Bhargava