Fiction
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A debut novel follows two women clashing with male dominance in politics
Mahek Jangda
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This collection of Gracy’s short stories in translation is a frank celebration of female desire
Gracy
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Remembering writer Shovon Chowdhury with his savage 2013 satire ‘The Competent Authority’
Shovon Chowdhury
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Manoranjan Byapari’s new novel in translation imagines the life of a boy as a Namasudra
Manoranjan Byapari
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Will there be love after an environmental apocalypse strikes? A new novel pops the question
Arnav Das Sharma
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‘Civil Lines’: Two sisters stumble on their mother’s secret (and examine their relationship)
Radhika Swarup
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How Delhi has been written over the years in novels and in stories (and essays)
Ranjana Sengupta
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‘Sylvia’: This experimental debut uses prose and poetry to present an enigmatic relationship
Maithreyi Karnoor
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‘No Man’s Land’: Anuradha Sharma Pujaree’s short story riffs on a football match in Meghalaya
Anuradha Sharma Pujaree
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Mirza Ghalib on the trail of a murder gloriously powers this gripping work of historical fiction
Abdullah Khan
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Investigator turns down case and blank cheque. But it’s only the beginning in this crime novel
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
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‘The Last Queen’: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel resurrects the history of Jindan Kaur of Punjab
Huzan Tata
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When fiction can show us the arc of the Indian politician’s progress in a way that facts cannot
Devesh Verma
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This novel self-reflexively explores how a Kashmiri Pandit crafts the narrative of his life and loss
Trisha Gupta
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In this detective novel, the investigator suspects herself of being the murderer
Kalpana Swaminathan
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Hercule Poirot, still the world’s most loved detective, turns 100
Christopher Pittard, The Conversation
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel re-imagines Maharani Jind Kaur, scourge of the British
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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How an obscure 1909 novella predicted the use of a Zoom-like global machine for video communication
Dan Taylor, The Conversation
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‘Hamnet’: When Anne Hathaway and her husband, the future playwright of ‘Hamlet’, lose their son
Radhika Oberoi
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‘Murder at the Mushaira’: A poet is murdered, and the detective chasing the killer is Mirza Ghalib
Raza Mir