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‘...Echoing around, etched in the edifice’: This artist’s poetry is inspired by her paintings
Nandita Chaudhuri
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Fiction: Mahmud and Ayaz travel from Somnath to Kashmir as questions of citizenship arise
R Raj Rao
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This banker’s memoir recounts his journey from a junior officer to executive director
Shiv B Singh
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‘My toes pirouette on the waves’: A new book of poems blurs the boundaries of place and time
Moumita Alam
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Fiction: Maya’s elaborate tricks to ward off a billionaire who has his eyes set on her sister’s home
Raghu Srinivasan
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Fiction: Will Poppy and Tariq be able to sustain their love in a dystopian state?
Dharini Bhaskar
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How Manoj Bajpayee tried and tried to get into the National School of Drama
Piyush Pandey Rohit Vats
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‘The women cower / Hide like roaches’: Poems on living and working as a woman in a violent world
Mohua Chinappa
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Fiction: Lahiri Bari is a house of many secrets and contested legacies of injustice, love, and pain
Ramona Sen
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‘A special dignity characterised her personality’: Qurratulain Hyder’s pen portrait of actor Nargis
Qurratulain Hyder Sufia Kidwai Fatima Rizvi
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Thriller: A foreign couple with powerful connections is abducted while trekking in the Kumaon
Amitabh Pandey
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Fiction: Beneath the veneer of civility lies a hotbed of secrets of residents of a chic apartment
Ong Chin Huat
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Fiction: Will Goa make Maddie revive her social media influencer career or accept anonymity?
Bina Nayak
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Fiction: In Assam, a man’s love for a woman and his community and nation are tested
Somnath Batabyal
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Fiction: In a world headed for totalitarianism, one man rises from the shadows to start a revolution
Tathagata Bhattacharya
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Fiction: A 2032 war ends when a supernatural event saves Lalbag, an obscure town, from destruction
Meghna Pant
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How Lala Lajpat Rai reinterpreted India’s ‘Muslim’ history to highlight peaceful co-existence
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
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In Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel, 19-year-old Lorenzo searches for god and the meaning of life
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Fiction: Anju tries to save a marriage held together precariously by middle-class sensibilities
Selma Carvalho
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When the police had to be called to control the crowds outside singing star Suraiya’s home
Ranjan Sain