fiction
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Hari Kunzru blends blues music, racial politics and time travel to remind us why we love fiction
Anu Kumar
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This historical novel goes back to Alexander’s invasion of Bharat
Rahul Mitra
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Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’: When a memoir is full of lies (which is why you want to read it)
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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Happy fiftieth birthday, Adrian Mole. What would you have said about today’s world?
Shreya Sen Handley
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Climate-change in these three novels is even more terrifying than in real life
Rajat Chaudhuri
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What India’s bestselling writers read when they read literary fiction
Devapriya Roy
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This clever form of erotica is a novel that tells a quite different story about Indian immigrants
Balli Kaur Jaswal
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First read: Prayaag Akbar’s debut novel ‘Leila’ is a fantasy of the near future
Prayaag Akbar
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A subversive handbook, psychology manual and style guide for women who choose to remain single
Parvathy Raveendran
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No one writes about searing love like KR Meera does, and this novel proves it again
KR Meera
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How will love survive in a world dominated by terrorism, war, and refugees?
Anu Kumar
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This novel reminds us how a creative artist dealt with the might of a (Leftist) totalitarian state
Karthick Ram Manoharan
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If this murder mystery is not really a whodunit, what is it?
Jai Arjun Singh
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‘I was sick of suitable girls and wanted to create an anti-heroine': Pakistani writer Sabyn Javeri
Anam Zakaria
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For the good of the nation: Ten short tales on patriotism by Asghar Wajahat
Asghar Wajahat
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The writer of the ‘greatest horror story of our time’ died and (almost) no one noticed
Nicholas Rixon
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This is a death scene but this novel is about immortality of a sort
Vayu Naidu
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Why crime fiction is turning out to be the best way to depict Indian cities in novels
Neha Bhatt
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The Inspector O novels are one of the best ways to understand North Korea
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Why some of our most engaging writers are from the Indian Foreign Service
Gopalkrishna Gandhi