fiction
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From a nightmare: What if you cannot find your way out of the mall?
Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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From the North-East: Where folklore and fiction mingle to become one
Easterine Kire
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Fiction pick: God’s fingers (or, a dream debut and a forbidden pleasure)
Saikat Majumdar
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Marriage and the devil both play prominent roles in this new comic novel from Sri Lanka
Ashok Ferrey
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Will this novel be a bestseller, as its author and publishers hope? This will help you decide
Ira Trivedi
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When Rabindranath Tagore heard that he had won the Nobel Prize, 105 years ago
Aruna Chakravarti
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The ambitious modern Indian version of ‘Don Quixote’ tries gallantly but falls short
Devapriya Roy
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The pre-Independence novel that’s actually about love, not the Partition
Lavanya Shanbhogue-Arvind
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With these two novellas, China Miéville shows again why he is like no other writer
Arnab Chakraborty
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‘The transistor’: A chilling short story from Kashmir
Shahnaz Bashir
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'Park benches are empty, coffee mugs, morose': Watch Ravish Kumar on 'Love in the time of Notebandi'
Scroll Staff
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Demonetisation in fiction: Peppermint sweets replace the rupee as currency in this short story
Aadhavan Dheetchanya
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First read: When the Tamil Lalgudi Iyer discovers he is the reincarnation of Bhima
Ryan Lobo
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This book uses fiction to tell the (largely unread) story of Sindh
Bina Shah
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Fantasy fiction: What if the immortal Asvathhama had to face modern gun-toting mercenaries?
Krishna Udaysankar
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The backdrop of war and violence make Sri Lankan novels gut-wrenching. This one shows why
Anu Kumar
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JM Coetzee’s new novel asks a crucial question: When everyone’s the same, can a person be different?
Arnab Chakraborty
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'It isn’t autobiography, but it's a daughter’s book in every way': Madeleine Thien
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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'Are you happy we're married?' What do you do when war is the reason you have to marry a stranger?
Anuk Arudpragasam
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Are you a young Indian woman born in the USA? These are your stories
Anu Kumar