fiction
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Could Jainism have swept Gujarat? A historical saga asks this question (and several others)
KM Munshi
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‘The Havelburg Djinn’: A Pakistani stand-up comic and writer’s short story
Sami Shah
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Arundhati Roy’s novel lays bare the horrors and hopes of our times. This is not holiday homework
Durba Chattaraj
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This novel reminds us we have chosen to ignore the darkness beneath the dazzle of modern India
Shireen Quadri
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One more Mumbai novel? No, perhaps ‘the’ novel of modern Mumbai
Sayali Palekar
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‘A Suitable Girl’ is coming. What was it like to read Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ 24 years ago?
Devapriya Roy
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When polar bears do a better job than people at explaining the human condition
Todd Shimoda
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This intriguing, edgy collection of stories could well have been called ‘Humans of Sri Lanka’
Shireen Quadri
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The future that ‘Leila’ presents is already here, and all of us may be responsible
Trisha Gupta
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Kiran Nagarkar’s explosive first novel was in Marathi. Now you can read it again
Kiran Nagarkar
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You’ve heard of the unreliable narrator? Paula (‘Girl on the Train’) Hawkins’s new thriller has ten
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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Is Bombay the real ‘Friend of My Youth’ whom Amit Chaudhuri writes about in his new novel?
Unmana Datta
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What happened after Arshad said ‘Talaq! talaq! talaq!’?: Mahasweta Devi’s short story, ‘The Divorce’
Mahasweta Devi
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Fiction pick: The girl who learnt to sculpt goddesses, and then disappeared
Torsa Ghosal
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What makes novelist Anjum Hasan a writer of poems but not a poet?
Rohini Kejriwal
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Fiction pick: What goes through a person’s mind as they contemplate jumping to death?
Ganesh Matkari
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A world where women are the dominant sex? This timely novel imagines it, 5,000 years from now
Achala Upendran
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Fiction pick: How angry can a teenager in a wheelchair get?
Nandhika Nambi
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Anuja Chauhan’s new romance will raise heartbeats for more than one reason (there’s a war thrown in)
Devapriya Roy
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The stories may be erotic, but this novel tells frightening truths about Punjabi lives in Southall
Shireen Quadri