fiction
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‘Young Mungo’: Douglas Stuart’s novel on working-class Glaswegian adolescent boy and his coming out
Arunima Mazumdar
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‘Dream Factory’: Desires and disappointments in a fictional of recreation of the Tamil film industry
Shubhangi Tiwari
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This whodunit unearths the secrets and lies lurking beneath one of Mumbai’s poshest addresses
Meeti Shroff-Shah
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‘C’: A novel written in two voices – one of a nameless wanderer, and other of a city without the sun
Anupama Raju
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In ‘The Bread the Devil Knead’, uninhibited language brings to life the horrors of domestic abuse
Sayari Debnath
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Three eclectic women living in 19th-century India are the protagonists in Ranga Rao’s last book
Ranga Rao
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How historical fiction writers have merged human experiences with factual accuracy
Liam Bell, The Conversation
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This novel follows personal lives 30 years after Operation Blue Star
Arjun Raj Gaind
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Myth and history come together with magic realism in this recently translated Bengali novel
Amar Mitra
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‘Afrofuturism’: A professor explains the genre with elements of science fiction and African history
Julian C Chambliss, The Conversation
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‘The Wait And Other Stories’: Damodar Mauzo reaches into cracks and crevices in search of Goa
Sayari Debnath
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In the Mumbai of ‘Rohzin’, the real collides with the imagined and history joins hands with folklore
Saloni Sharma
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The rise, fall and resurrection of horror fiction in American popular entertainment
Ali Alizadeh, The Conversation
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Abortion in fiction draws on the complicated history of gender, sexuality and women’s rights
Sharon Engbrecht, The Conversation
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‘Weird Women’s Club’: Aruna Nambiar’s novel is a witty exploration of womanhood and its side effects
Debanjana Das
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Former International Booker winner Jokha Alharthi’s latest novel leaves a bittersweet aftertaste
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Paradise of Food’: Horror lurks in kitchen corners in Khalid Jawed’s fiction of hostility
Saloni Sharma
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Reading list: Eight novels that tell us how Indian fiction looks at Indian politics
Sayari Debnath
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‘Ladies’ Tailor’: A Partition refugee tries to make a new life after losing his old one
Priya Hajela
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‘Ruffled Feathers’: A new collection of short fiction captures people navigating a grim world
V Sanjay Kumar