fiction
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Annie Zaidi’s new novel captures the lives of 12 people living on the edges of Mumbai city
Annie Zaidi
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Five Victorian detective stories to read that are not Sherlock Holmes mysteries
Clare Clarke, The Conversation
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‘Farside’: A sister finds her brother dead. Then the possibility of a murder unravels
Jaishankar Krishnamurthy Krishna Udayasankar
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An adolescent’s badminton dreams collide with communal violence in this novel
Saskya Jain
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This story shows why Ruskin Bond’s supernatural fiction is some of his finest writing
Ruskin Bond
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This anthology of Tamil stories lay out the rich possibilities of modern fiction in an old language
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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‘Homebound’ is non-fiction masquerading as a novel about a migrant family’s plight during Covid-19
Yash Daiv
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Bangladesh at 50: This anthology offers a selection of stories written in both English and Bengali
Sohana Manzoor
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‘Qabar’: KR Meera’s magic realist fictional riff on the Babri Masjid case is now in English
KR Meera
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In this entirely fictitious novel, a 29-year-old woman becomes the prime minister of India
Seema Goswami
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The Grand Anicut shows historical novels need not be slowed down by immaculate research
Veena Narayan
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This book of stories from Nagaland plays out personal histories during intense political turmoil
Shuktara Lal
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‘Do Not Go to the Jungle’ is a collection of ‘socio-horror’ short stories, both macabre and tender
Shihabuddin Poithumkadavu
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‘Dakhma’ combines Mumbai, the tower of silence, and an apartment building into an eerie novel
K Hari Kumar
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‘Lal Salaam’: Smriti Irani’s novel is based on the killing of 76 CRPF men by Maoists in Dantewada
Smriti Zubin Irani
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‘Human nature doesn’t change’: Madhulika Liddle on the challenges of writing historical fiction
Abdullah Khan
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This story by Tamil master Subramania Bharati features in a new anthology of Tamil short fiction
Subramania Bharati
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How TV scriptwriter Sanjeev Paliwal has revived Hindi crime fiction with ‘Naina’ and ‘Pishach’
Maneesha Taneja
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Zain Saeed’s debut novel asks if the American brand of freedom can mean release for some Pakistanis
Isa Ayidh
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‘A Time Outside This Time’ asks uncomfortable questions of responsibility and complicity
Saloni Sharma