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How have Indian novelists depicted Independence and the Partition? Here’s a sampler from their works
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It’s fiction, not history, that reveals the real impact of the Partition on women
Sukrita Paul Kumar
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‘I am drawn to terrifying things’, says the novelist who feels squeamish seeing his name on his book
Smriti Daniel
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Nothing actually happens in Elif Batuman’s campus novel ‘The Idiot’, which is why you love it
Devapriya Roy
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This novel reminds us decolonisation and the end of slavery are not as complete as we like to think
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This novel interrogates contemporary Indian politics, borrowing from ‘King Lear’ and adding Kashmir
Preti Taneja, The Conversation
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In a British author’s crowdfunded book, Bond and Holmes are no match for a Punjabi private eye
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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‘The world is ready for the Indian novel – not immigrant or exotic – from India’: writer Diksha Basu
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This clever period novel about a Parsi boy born without a future (almost) wins you over
Sayali Palekar
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Like its title, and life, nothing in Kiran Nagarkar’s rich ‘Seven Sixes are Forty-Three’ adds up
Simrin Sirur
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Why everyone should read more of Malayalam writer Rajelakshmy’s groundbreaking fiction
Nikhil Govind
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Two families wrestle with their opposing Muslim identities in Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Home Fire’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Ravi Subramanian on his new thriller set in a temple: ‘Even I didn’t know who the killer was’
Amrita Tripathi
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This literary novel is masquerading as a supernatural thriller (which makes for a thrilling read)
SV Sujatha
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What Alexandre Dumas can teach us (seven times over) about being a bestselling author
Jash Sen
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Shambala Junction
Scroll Staff
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With these short stories, Akhil Sharma adds funny and gentle variations to a familiar theme
Jai Arjun Singh
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Why ‘Exodus’, Leon Uris’s epic novel of Israel, is not what the country has turned out to be
Mohan Guruswamy
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As she turns 50, Jhumpa Lahiri is bravely embarking on a second literary life
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Fiction from real life: A military despatch from Kashmir
Sanjay Bahadur