Book review
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‘Ma is Scared’: Anjali Kajal’s short stories step into the lives of ordinary women in northern India
Areeb Ahmad
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‘General Firebrand and His Red Atlas’: What is happening to my neighbour will also happen to me
Ipshita Mitra
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‘Never Never Land’: Life is old here. Older than the trees. Younger than the mountains
Sayari Debnath
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‘Conversations with Aurangzeb’: An absurdist questioning of our histories
Ila Manish
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‘Until August’: Nobel winner Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel is a moving testament to his genius
Gabriel Garcia Ochoa, The Conversation
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‘Red River’: To whom does a piece of land belong? Who gets to live on its resources?
Saloni Sharma
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Ramachandra Guha pays a literary tribute to the oft-invisible friendship between editor and writer
Suchismita Ghosh
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‘The Hippo Girl’: Each of these short stories has the potential to be a novel
Atharva Pandit
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‘If We Burn’: A book that examines why a decade of mass protest has done so little to change things
Christopher Pollard, The Conversation
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Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel situates itself in the stability and freedoms of faith
Saloni Sharma
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‘Beneath the Simolu Tree’: How the ordinary can inspire complex relationships with art and grief
Saloni Sharma
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‘One Another’ explores the life of Joseph Conrad and the transformative potential of reading
Sue Kossew, The Conversation
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‘Acts of God’ by Kanan Gill: An Indian entertainer has finally written a fun, clever book
Debasmita Bhowmik
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‘The Kidnapping of Mark Twain’: The turn of the century and a brave new Bombay
Saloni Sharma
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‘Mithun Number Two’: Jayant Kaikini’s stories present the impossible dream – and reality – of Mumbai
Sayari Debnath
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‘Hot Stage’: Anita Nair’s detective fiction exposes the sordid underbelly of a shiny cityscape
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘Chronicle of an Hour and a Half’: What if I become the mob?
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Wolves of Eternity’: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ambitious new novel imagines Europe’s last decades
Alexander Howard, The Conversation
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Ajanta Deo’s Hindi novel ‘Kharij Log’ is an urgent quest to unravel what it means to belong
Arundhati Ghosh
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‘Our Strangers’: Lydia Davis’s new stories address contradictions and absurdities of postmodern life
Tamlyn Avery, The Conversation