Book review
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‘Girl With the Seven Lives’: Vikas Swarup’s new novel is entertaining, despite a clichéd plot
Sahana Hegde
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‘Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones’: Priyanka Mattoo’s memoir illuminates deeper truths about displacement
Muhammad Nadeem
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‘Darako’: Parashar Kulkarni’s new novel about spitters and believers is a total riot
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Lion and the Lily’: Ira Mukhoty’s new book on Awadh history resurrects Nawab Begum, Bahu Begum
Rana Safvi
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‘Mother India’: Prayaag Akbar’s new novel excavates the often empty roots of nationalistic pride
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Distaste of the Earth’: Kynpham S Nongkynrih’s novel is a love story between humans and nature
Sruthi Bhattathiri
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‘Rosarita’: Anita Desai’s new novel shows she is still at the top of her game
Sayari Debnath
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Madhumita Murgia’s ‘Code Dependent’ offers a powerful critique of data colonialism in the age of AI
Diya Isha
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‘The Remains of the Body’: What the fluidity of love, friendship, and liminality of desire can do
Rituparna Roy
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‘Sweet Shop’: Amit Chaudhuri (re)opens intimate, everyday spaces for English poetry from India
Sonal Dugar
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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