fiction
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‘Nireeswaran’: A group of atheists plays a prank to mock religion. Things don’t go according to plan
VJ James
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‘Battles of Our Own’: A harsh reminder of how political power imbalances control individual desires
Sahana Hegde
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Easterine Kire’s new novel riffs on a Chang Naga legend of sudden darkness descending on the land
Easterine Kire
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‘Yakshi’: This short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James is a sensual parable for our times
VJ James
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A chinar tree in Pakistan is a witness to the interconnected stories in this collection
Ali Rohila
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Meet Arun Vijay, the arrogant superstar from Sujatha’s novel ‘Dream Factory’
Sujatha
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Philosophy, obsession and puzzling people: Julian Barnes’s new novel explores big questions
Janna Thompson, The Conversation
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Here comes pandemic fiction: murder, disease , life after death in Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
Julian Novitz, The Conversation
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Fiction pick: ‘The Ladder of Yarn’, a short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James
VJ James
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‘Chamor’: This debut novel lays bare arcs of exploitation in seemingly congenial settings
Abdullah Khan
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What to read in May? Seven books to spend the hottest month of the year with
Sayari Debnath
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This collection of three novellas tells stories of humans and animals coming together
Nirmal Ghosh
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An iconic novel by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das is reborn through an English translation
Jibanananda Das
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‘Rohzin’: This novel of interrelated lives explores love, lovers, longing and the city of Mumbai
Rahman Abbas
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‘Hungry Humans’: This Tamil novel is located on the intersection between desire, morality and caste
Karichan Kunju
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‘The Immortal King Rao’: Immigration, capitalism, and technology converge in this debut novel
Vauhini Vara
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‘Song of the Soil’ channels the aborted political movement for Gorkhaland through fiction
Chitra Ahanthem
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2022 Jhalak Prize longlist: Twelve handpicked books across genres by writers of colour in Britain
Scroll Staff
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‘Two and a Half Rivers’: A moving novel of caste discrimination and isolation in Punjab
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Kashmir’s stories are best told by Kashmiris themselves, shows this anthology of short fiction
Niyati Bhat