fiction
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‘A Passage North’ compels you to think not just about the novel but about your own life
Gayathri Sankar
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‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India
Chandan Pandey
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‘Asoca’: Irwin Allan Sealy’s new novel is a modern reconstruction of the life of Emperor Ashoka
Irwin Allan Sealy
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Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight
Indu Menon
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‘Gods and Ends’: Lindsay Pereira’s novel offers an unflinching eye for stories of the wretched
Sahana Hegde
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‘Mahanadi’: Anita Agnihotri’s epic Bengali novel following the course of a river is now in English
Anita Agnihotri
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Anuk Arudpragasam’s long awaited second novel confronts life in the aftermath of devastation
Anuk Arudpragasam
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Whodunnit? A protesting student is murdered during the Prince of Wales’s Bombay visit in 1921
Sujata Massey
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Anjali Joseph’s ‘Keeping in Touch’ is an ode to (extra)ordinary lives in the guise of a romance
Ipshita Mitra
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‘Anti-Clock’: A complicated man’s complicated relationship with religion – and with revenge
Yamini Krishnan
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‘Little America’: A man creates an enclave of unrestrained behaviour in orthodox Pakistan
Zain Saeed
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‘Are you a boy or a girl?’ This YA novel explores what coming of age as a gay teenager can be like
Payal Dhar
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This novel follows the passionate relationship between a cricket-loving former prince and a singer
Abhishek Bhatt
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‘The Begum and the Dastan’: A novel that shows how to write history without condoning it
Isa Ayidh
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Walter Scott at 250: So much more than a great historical novelist
Daniel Cook, The Conversation
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‘Mortuary Tales’: A new book of uncanny stories from Mumbai of horror, real or imagined
Kashif Mashaik
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A coffin-maker and a clock that can make time go backwards bring magical realism to this novel
VJ James
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A tragic love story in Marathi, set on a ship on the brink of WWII, gets an English translation
Vishram Bedekar
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Opening lines from Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize winner ‘The Night Watchman’ and other novels
Louise Erdrich
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When ‘allergic to commitment’ meets ‘toxic bachelor’: A novel of the long-distance relationship
Anjali Joseph