Book Review
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‘The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years’: What haunts us is not the supernatural but our existence
Sonika Athwani
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‘Ebrahim Alkazi’: The meteoric rise of an artist who shaped contemporary theatre aesthetics in India
Swati Rai
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‘Mahmud And Ayaz’: An envelope-pushing novel that takes the past and the present head-on
Mahika Dhar
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‘My Beloved Life’ by Amitava Kumar: Truth, memories, and what we leave behind
Sayari Debnath
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‘Parade’: Rachel Cusk’s new novel makes the familiar strange – and moves beyond womanhood
Jane Gleeson-White, The Conversation
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‘The Scent of Fallen Stars’: The prose shines with possibilities but the plot does not quite sparkle
Saloni Sharma
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‘Choice’: Neel Mukherjee’s new novel buckles a bit under its own lofty ambitions
Sayari Debnath
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‘Crooked Seeds’: Karen Jennings’s new novel is cautionary, political, moving
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Rupleena Bose’s debut novel ‘Summer of Then’: When the grass is brown on your side
Sayari Debnath
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Sunjeev Sahota’s new novel ‘The Spoiled Heart’ spares no one
Mahika Dhar
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Sunday book pick: A luckless love in ‘Kairos’, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize
Sayari Debnath
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‘Eden Abandoned’: Lilith’s myth offers new ways to read our gendered relationships
Shubhangi Tiwari
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‘The Singularity’: This Swedish novel in translation is a looping narrative of unbearable loss
Areeb Ahmad
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This collection of Qurratulain Hyder’s works offers a detailed portrait of the writer and her times
Saloni Sharma
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‘Bed Table Door’: Csilla Toldy’s novel reminds us that living in darkness is only a choice
Pallavi Padma-Uday
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Stet’, a fascinating portrait of the English publishing industry and its stars
Sayari Debnath
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‘Instruments of Torture’: These stories show us what we do in the shadows
Sayari Debnath
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‘Nobody Lights a Candle’ illuminates the dark realities of our unequal society
Veeksha Vagmita
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Such a Long Journey’, how an ordinary heart travels in turbulent times
Sayari Debnath
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‘Circles of Freedom’ tells a tight-paced story of Asaf Ali and friends during the national movement
Nandan S Kaushik