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Saptak Choudhury
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Not all Japanese crime fiction is superb, as Seishi Yokomizo’s ‘The Village of Eight Graves’ shows
The sixth and final in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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What is the shin honkaku sub-genre of mystery? How did Japanese writer Soji Shimada make it popular?
The fifth in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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How a Japanese island mystery novel replicated the Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes brand of mystery
The fourth in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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The curious case of Pran Puri, the 18th century travelling monk who was discovered and forgotten
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How Alexander the Great became Iskandar Zulkarnain, the legendary ancestor of Malay kings
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Why Pakistan has not seen any major public protests despite extreme economic hardship
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Explainer: Why India wants to modify the Indus Water Treaty after 62 years
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Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku stories remind us that he created a fictional scientist too
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How Keikichi Ōsaka blended crime with philosophical meditations on the puzzling nature of existence
The third in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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‘The Red Locked Room’: How Tetsuya Ayukawa unlocks locked room mysteries
The second in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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Can a detective novel study the evolution of a city through its history of crime and detection?
The first in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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Syria earthquake: Watch rescuers erupt in joy after family is pulled out alive from debris
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Watch: Drew Barrymore shaves off actor Tyler Posey's moustache during an on-camera interview
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‘Liar!’ Watch Republicans heckling US President Joe Biden during State of the Union address
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Watch: Bowhead whales rejuvenate themselves at a ‘health spa’ off the coast of Russia
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‘He makes it appear he’s the remote control behind the PM’: TMC’s Mahua Moitra on Adani in Lok Sabha