fiction
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‘Dangerous Pursuits’ retells ‘The Ramayana’ and ‘The Tempest’ as a social critique of modern times
Saloni Sharma
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New in fiction: Durga joins forces with a group of women to end the rule of demon-king Mahisha
Kevin Missal
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The paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector converge in a new thriller
Damyanti Biswas
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Salman Rushdie returns to social media for first time after stabbing, shares excerpts of new novel
Scroll Staff
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Young Maymo discovers she’s a storyteller. Stories are forbidden where she lives. What will she do?
Nandini Nayar
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As 2022 winds down, these recent works of fiction offer ways to read through the year-end
Scroll Staff
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‘The Secret of More’: Tejaswini Apte-Rahm’s debut novel delivers more than it promises
Shubhangi Tiwari
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‘Everything the Light Touches’: A hypnotic read about man’s eternal quest for a place in this world
Sayari Debnath
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‘What the Rains Foretold’: An origin myth of Kerala and its people gets a new English translation
N Mohanan
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In this new novel, a young man joins the INA after being dismissed from a British paramilitary unit
Vijay Balan
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A task force races against time to solve mysteries from the Mahabharata to save humans in this novel
Christopher C Doyle
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel sees India’s independence through the eyes of three sisters
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Get over your fears. Horror fiction in Indian children’s literature is finally here
Rati Girish
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‘The Education of Yuri’: Moving and uneven, Jerry Pinto’s bildungsroman is lifelike and believable
Keshava Guha
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Six translators from four south Asian languages are the winners of the inaugural PEN Presents award
Scroll Staff
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Twelve people imprisoned in an empty hotel must choose between death and murder in this thriller
Varun Gwalani
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Not all Japanese crime fiction is superb, as Seishi Yokomizo’s ‘The Village of Eight Graves’ shows
Saptak Choudhury
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‘Tejo Tungabhadra’: Vasudhendra’s novel about two rivers is magnificent in both breadth and depth
Shubhangi Tiwari
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‘The Passenger’: Cormac McCarthy’s comeback novel is testimony to American history and its tragedies
Rahul Singh
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Nilanjana Roy’s new novel is a noir mystery highlighting community divide and violence against women
Nilanjana S Roy