fiction
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Sunday book pick: Lin Xinwu’s 1984 novel ‘The Wedding Party’ reveals the true cost of a wedding
Sayari Debnath
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July fiction from around the world: Six recently-published books to read in this new month
Scroll Staff
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Detective fiction: Ambai’s private eye Sudha Gupta is on a mission to uncover Mumbai’s underbelly
Ambai Gita Subramanian
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YA fiction: Here, speakers have to buy words, but things change when Asha and Zeb try graffiti
Payal Kapadia
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The Ramayana retold: Tara’s tumultuous life as she first becomes Bali’s queen and then Sugreeva’s
Koral Dasgupta
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Fiction: At 55, PK is bored, his business is struggling, and his wife wants to go back to India
Reshma Ruia
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Romance fiction: All Nityami Thakur wants is a man to love her loyally. What is the problem then?
Novoneel Chakraborty
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Fantasy: An earthquake upends Radha’s life and releases forces that threaten everyone she loves
Rishi Amatya
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Mystery fiction: A posh Himalayan spa for the global elite has a murderer let loose
Ram Murali
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Ek Tanashah Ki Premkatha’ by Gyan Chaturvedi
Gyan Chaturvedi
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Fiction: A long-dead woman’s voice echoes through the storeroom as she reminisces about her past
Radhika Oberoi
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Fiction: An architect is asked to build a powerful man’s mansion but secrets and dangers are lurking
Mushtaq Shiekh
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Fiction: The psychological dilemmas of a liberal man living in an orthodox Muslim society
Rahman Abbas Riyaz Latif
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Sunday book pick: The long hours of an endless night in ‘The Private Lives of Trees’
Sayari Debnath
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July fiction picks: A new novella by Anita Desai and five just-published books to read this month
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Remains of the Body’: What the fluidity of love, friendship, and liminality of desire can do
Rituparna Roy
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Fiction: Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged but years later, they’re still looking for happiness
Ammar Kalia
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Short fiction: A couple, slowly falling out of love, hopes for a baby to save their marriage
Aneeta Sundararaj
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Fiction: In the 1920s, young people in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Banaras are finding new ways to live
Ruth Vanita
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‘Mahmud And Ayaz’: An envelope-pushing novel that takes the past and the present head-on
Mahika Dhar