fiction
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Women’s Day: A reader’s guide to the 16 books on the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: A carpet-maker in Srinagar pursues a transcendental dream – to weave a flying carpet
Shabir Ahmad Mir
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Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities
Shandana Minhas
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Fiction: A couple joins a working-class revolution with disaffected Sikh factory workers in London
Neena Nehru
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March fiction: Six recently published Indian novels and short stories for a new month of reading
Scroll Staff
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Murder mystery: Lakshmi Krishnamurthi is missing, and so is a Rs-5-crore painting from her home
Feisal Alkazi
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Fiction: Dev and his friends’s dreams unfold against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising India
Sandeep Khanna
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The lives of a 5th-century philosopher and a modern-day college professor collide in this novel
K Sridhar
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Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
Ramjee Chandran
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Fiction: Farook’s memories resurface as he prepares to bury his father behind a mosque
Sabin Iqbal
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Translated fiction: A vintage steam engine looks back at history while travelling across India
V Shinilal Nandakumar K
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‘No Place To Call My Own’: A slow start makes way for a realistic portrayal of women’s relationships
Sayari Debnath
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Global February fiction: A new novel by Nobel laureate Han Kang and five other books to read now
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: Lying reaches an outrageous peak when three eccentrics write for the revolutionary party
Paul Zacharia
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By Annie Zaidi: Devastated by betrayal, Asghar retreats to his hometown and rediscovers theatre
Annie Zaidi
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Fiction: 1977. Sukumar is deeply in love with a man but forced to keep their relationship a secret
Santanu Bhattacharya
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Crime thriller: Delhi policeman Roshan Rana looks for a ruthless, cunning psychopath in Darjeeling
Yasser Usman
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February fiction: Five novels and a short story collection you can read in the year’s shortest month
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: Trapped for centuries, Iblis the genie offers Lucy three wishes in exchange for his freedom
Pranoy Mathew
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Fiction: A mysterious man kindles Chintamoni’s dormant desires, bringing her love and money
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay Ipsa S