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Fiction: Everything changes when D’Asthetique, a swank salon, opens in a colony of beauty parlours
Akshita Nanda
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A new book investigates poet Mustafa Zaidi’s death, still a subject of controversy in Pakistan
Saba Imtiaz Tooba Masood-Khan
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Book excerpt: A re-appreciation of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s version of ‘Devdas’
Prathyush Parasuraman
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The journey to Shah Rukh Khan’s box office scorcher ‘Pathaan’
Mohar Basu
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In a new book a life coach offers advice on effective prioritising
Liisa Kyle
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Fiction: A teacher from Kerala takes a job in Dubai in the 1990s, but being an immigrant isn’t easy
Devi Yesodharan
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Fiction: A journalist searches for the mysterious Max Bulandi and early Indian rock musicians
Sidharth Singh
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Even in fiction, these lives are intertwined with India’s history and Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings
Krishna Kumar
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Fiction: Thrown out of her home, Seema has two choices – submit to her husband or leave forever
Shazaf Fatima Haider
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Fiction: When 17-year-old Savi is taken on as a governess for the wealthy Nandiyar family
Raghav Rao
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Fiction: A lustful boss, a cheating husband, an unsuitable lover make three women seek one another
Anuradha Marwah
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Fiction: Vijaya and Krishna navigate differences in land ownership, class warfare in their village
Ruthvika Rao
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Crime fiction: Retired cricket umpire Russi Batliwala investigates a high-profile murder
Madhav Nayak
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Fiction: A couple tries to start over in a new home after their son’s death upends their marriage
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
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‘Rickshaw’ has its roots in Japanese, and ‘hinterland’, in German: Shashi Tharoor writes about words
Shashi Tharoor
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Short fiction: The death of a couple’s young son makes them re-evaluate their relationship with him
Anirban Bhattacharya
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Fiction: The streets descend into chaos, turning every person into both a victim and a perpetrator
Sanjay Bahadur
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How the Indian upper castes (and the Portuguese) exploited the tribals of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Neelesh Kulkarni
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Translated fiction: Bengali couple Sudeep and Kamalika raise their children in 1980s’ America
Bani Basu Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
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Fiction from Bangladesh: Kamal embarks on a boat journey to the floodplains until the war is over
Manzu Islam