fiction
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Sunday book pick: A hawk is an elegant metaphor for a disintegrating marriage in ‘The Pilgrim Hawk’
Sayari Debnath
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June fiction: Geetanjali Shree’s first short story collection in translation and five titles to read
Scroll Staff
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‘The Complex’: Karan Mahajan’s new novel is pacy but does not create a lasting impression
Sayari Debnath
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Short fiction: A man and his mother simply wait as persistent pain eats away at his body
Bela Negi
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Fiction: Ashwini’s mind spirals as denial and loneliness take over when she’s diagnosed with cancer
Nirmala Thomas Radhika P Menon
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Fiction: Bhushan, a refugee from East Bengal, wanders about Calcutta’s streets searching for himself
Alka Saraogi John Vater
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‘Chinaki Chuburi’: An Assamese queer novel that experiences life outside binaries
Anannya Nath
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‘Kaaya’: A carefully, if haphazardly, stitched novel about body as a site of desire and violence
Shreya Khobragade
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Thriller: A novel is transformed into a deadly mind game that pushes logic and imagination
Manjiri Prabhu
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Fiction: Failed actor Rishi turns into a superstar when he accidentally lands in upside-down Mumbai
Amal Singh
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Sunday book pick: ‘Transcription’ brings us memories of a moment not ‘recorded’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Tale of Hansuli Turn’: What Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s novel says about preserving a river
Zakir Kibria
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‘Yesteryear’: is this viral novel’s time-travelling tradwife really ‘perfect at being alive’?
Rachel Williamson, The Conversation
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‘The Magnificent Ruins’: A sprawling family drama that suffers from the outside-in gaze
Sayari Debnath
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Short fiction: A woman leaves her husband to live with a lion-tamer who is both man and woman
Anushka Jasraj
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Fiction: A peek into the minds of commuters from Nalanda Housing Society held at gunpoint in a bus
Kalpish Ratna
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‘The Valley of Unfinished Songs’: An uneven novel about the interior life of the Kashmiri people
Usaid Rehmani
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Short fiction: Dalit women in a Punjab village ward off lecherous dominant-caste men
Bhura Singh Kaler Akshaya Kumar Navdeep Singh
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‘Rebel English Academy’: Mohammed Hanif’s new novel richly rewards the patient reader
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Fiction: Deepa and Ruchi weigh the tangled bonds of their friendship as immigrants in America
Reena Shah