fiction
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A new novel follows two friends as one tries to fall in love with a city and another, with her life
Buku Sarkar
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A dark secret threatens to unravel a family when they are cooped up inside a flat during a lockdown
Smita Bhattacharya
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In this new novel, a mystic searches for love and truth across lifetimes and dimensions
Adi Varuni
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A ten-year-old learns about disability when a grandparent with cerebral palsy comes to live with her
Madhurima Vidyarthi
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YA fiction: Three boys in Kalimpong are thrust into violence during the 1980s’ Gorkhaland agitation
Anirban Bhattacharya
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Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku stories remind us that he created a fictional scientist too
Satyajit Ray
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Detective Arjun Arora is back – this time the answer to a mysterious death might lie in China
Ankush Saikia
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‘Dark Star’: Decisions made by men without consideration for women affect their lives and memories
Sakshi Agarwal
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Anukrti Upadhyay’s new book of short stories is a vivid portrait of strange and enigmatic lives
Anukrti Upadhyay
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Mridula Garg translates ‘Chittacobra,’ her 1979 Hindi novel that was branded ‘obscene’ upon release
Mridula Garg
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Legendary Odia writer Gopinath Mohanty’s short stories get a new English translation
Gopinath Mohanty
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Translated by Shanta Gokhale: SV Ketkar’s 1930 Marathi classic about casteless and equitable society
Shridhar V Ketkar
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‘Every book ever printed is steeped in the essence of eco-fiction’
Cara Tejpal
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February fiction: Eight exciting new novels, graphic novels, short story collections for the month
Sayari Debnath
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‘Hawa Hawa’: In Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, Calcutta is a festering wound that refuses to heal
Sayari Debnath
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Part two of Manoranjan Byapari’s ‘Runaway Boy’: Jibon, now in his twenties, fights to survive hunger
Manoranjan Byapari
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Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel of adolescence in ’80s Los Angeles is autofiction for our digital age
Alexander Howard, The Conversation
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Fiction: A courtesan renounces pleasure and embraces Buddhism after she is betrayed by the world
Tanushree Podder
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Vikas Khanna’s new novel: A chef visits India to rekindle her love for cooking after losing her son
Vikas Khanna
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In this novel, a 12-year-old boy undertakes an epic journey to establish the first museum of India
Christopher Kloeble