fiction
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‘Love Is Participation in Eternity’: Udayan Vajpeyi’s novel reaffirms faith in good literature
Priyanka Dubey
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Fiction: A former war reporter bakes cakes using an old recipe she found in a house she inherited
Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe
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Fiction: Sharmila Basu has curated the perfect life. He is the one variable she never planned for
Chandrani Ghosh
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‘Silent Wall, Speaking Stones’: Lives caught in congested histories, sacred geographies in Ayodhya
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
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‘The Last of Earth’: Deepa Anappara’s novel makes readers engage with the subversiveness of desire
Saloni Sharma
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Fiction: Marissa and Arielle explore the wonders of forests, reefs, and beaches on an Andaman island
Tara Menon
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Fiction: For Jalandhar boy Sukhpreet, Canada is a land of promise and prosperity. A shock awaits him
Lindsay Pereira
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Sunday book pick: Seven die in quest for a ‘perfect woman’ in crime novel ‘The Tokyo Zodiac Murders’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Women Without Men’: The feminist novel that Iran’s regime has failed to silence since the ’80s
Hind Elhinnawy, The Conversation
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‘Silent Journeys’ by Benyamin: A tapestry of migration, memory, and the women who walked unseen
Suchismita Ghosh
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Crime fiction: A documentary begins asking questions that four men thought had been buried forever
Arnab Ray
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Short fiction: People wake up in a post-apocalyptic world to discover everything is made of cake
Maithreyi Karnoor
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Fiction: Ahilya dreads heading to her hometown in India for the wedding of Radhika, her young cousin
Vandana Nair
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‘The Sky Husband’: Easterine Kire’s book of short stories shows the enduring charm of the mundane
Priyanka Chatterjee
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Unhomed in the world: The work and world of the recently rediscovered writer, Rajalakshmi N Rao
Sharmistha Mohanty
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Fiction: Lila’s return to Kolkata brings a fraught reunion with her mother and extended family
Nayantara Roy
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Translated fiction: A group of gig workers in Kolkata thinks about its place in the universe
Ashoke Mukhopadhyay Zenith Roy
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Crime fiction: Uma suspects she’s surrounded by evil when she and her husband move to a sleepy town
Roopa Unnikrishnan
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What makes Rohinton Mistry’s fiction so cherished? His moral seriousness and technical mastery
Nirav Mehta
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Fiction pick: ‘Where Toba Tek Singh Goes After the Fire’ by Nirupama Rao
Nirupama Rao