fiction
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Fiction excerpt: From the 2025 edition of Sunetra Gupta’s 1992 classic ‘Memories of Rain’
Sunetra Gupta
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Fiction: Draupadi witnesses a grotesque act. Should she inform the police or protect her peace?
Gourahari Das Manoranjan Mishra
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‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule
Attaul Munim Zahid
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Fiction: An incident at the swimming pool leaves young Mira and Ashu shaken, and their mother angry
Bhavika Govil
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Crime fiction: Inspector Kumar knows it is not an accident when a young woman falls to her death
Rudraneil Sengupta
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April fiction: Six newly published novels and short story collections about contemporary Indian life
Scroll Staff
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‘Sita in Exile’: A novel about gender expectations of women in the Ramayana (and the modern world)
Gemini Wahhaj
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‘The Comeback’: Annie Zaidi’s short and sweet novel about second chances
Sayari Debnath
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Reader’s guide: The opening lines of the six novels on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist
Scroll Staff
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Keshava Guha’s new novel: Tara and Lila challenge patriarchal Delhi with their ambitions
Keshava Guha
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Fiction: Kayo is a member of an exclusive club in Tokyo, but it won’t be easy to continue
Radhika Jha
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Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
Amarjit Sidhu
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Fiction: Layla’s life in a small liberal arts college is about to change when she discovers a body
Faiqa Mansab
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Fiction: What does Naina do when her father calls her to wipe the blood off her mother’s dead body?
Arunima Tenzin Tara
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Crime fiction: What was thought to be a suicide is actually a murder. Can Meenakshi find the killer?
Ell P
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Sunday book pick: ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson is an utterly mad novel
Sayari Debnath
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March global fiction: Six newly published novels, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s, for readers
Scroll Staff
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‘Unknown City’: Amitabha Bagchi is back with a bang with Arindam Chatterjee from ‘Above Average’
Debasmita Bhowmik
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Fiction: Madhu is brutally murdered in his home on a regular evening, shattering the peace of a city
Vasundhara
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For children: How will Rajat get one hundred rupees for the boatman to take him across the river?
Poonam Desai