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Book excerpt: Meet the Angry Young Women of 1970s cinema
Nandini Ramnath
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Fiction: Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged but years later, they’re still looking for happiness
Ammar Kalia
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Fiction: Exiled from celestial court, a once powerful yaksha pretends to be a human in Mumbai
Rohan Monteiro
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Fiction: In the 1920s, young people in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Banaras are finding new ways to live
Ruth Vanita
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In André Aciman’s new novel, a group of friends visiting the Amalfi Coast encounter a mysterious man
André Aciman
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Fiction: Bollywood aspirants are forced to reckon if they’re the hero or villain of their lives
Puneet Sikka
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Mystery fiction: Sarla Seth, owner of a popular marriage agency in Mumbai, gets threatening messages
Meeti Shroff-Shah
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Fiction: A middle-aged woman returns to her childhood home, and the people who changed her life
Parul Sharma
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Why and how ‘outlaw heroes’ like JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield became so popular in the US
Michiko Kakutani
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LGBTQ fiction: A disenchanted couple becomes entangled with a queer couple living their dream life
Laura Blackett Eve Gleichman
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Mythological fiction: Radha and Krishna’s eternal love story gets a new retelling
Neelima Dalmia Adhar
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Featuring a paanwallah, this novel uses satire to comment on religion, identity, and freedom
Parashar Kulkarni
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In Coco Mellors’s new novel, three sisters reunite to stop the sale of their childhood home
Coco Mellors
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Fiction: Gobind joins the Indian Navy to uplift his life and change his family’s fortunes forever
Harinder S Sikka
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Fiction: In her forties and divorced, Maya is enjoying a halcyon spell in Bombay, the city she loves
Rohit Manchanda
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In Rana Safvi’s debut novel, a young princess’s quest for love is made difficult by the 1857 mutiny
Rana Safvi
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This personal narrative explores the joy and irony of small-town life in India
Sumana Roy
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By Sunjeev Sahota: Nayan sees Helen around town. He’s drawn to her, though he doesn’t know why
Sunjeev Sahota
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A clinical psychologist explains how young adults can navigate through their uncertain twenties
Meg Jay
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Fantasy fiction: Jai steals a dragon egg and flees the cruel empire that killed his family
Taran Matharu