Fiction
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‘The Ex-Daughters of Tolstoy House’: How much blood must be spilled before the cycle is broken?
Suchismita Ghosh
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Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A woman wakes up confused in a hospital and realises that she has no idea who she is
Shashi Warrier
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Shortlisted for 2025 International Booker Prize: An excerpt from ‘Small Boat’ by Vincent Delecroix
Vincent Delecroix Helen Stevenson
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For children: Agalya has been cast as Rapunzel in the school play, but her excitement is short-lived
Divya Anand
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May fiction: Six new novels and short story collections to cool down with in summer
Scroll Staff
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‘Hot Water’: Bhavika Govil’s debut novel movingly constructs a child’s fragile yet resilient world
Sayari Debnath
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Thriller: Every student in an elite Noida school is a suspect when a schoolmate is killed
Novoneel Chakraborty
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Fiction: A seemingly ideal couple goes on a final date on the day of their divorce
Pinaki Gangopadhyay
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‘They’re going to close our river’: Manto’s 1950s story about the India-Pakistan water dispute
Saadat Hasan Manto Rakhshanda Jalil
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Fiction: Rabiya’s dream of becoming a teacher is shattered when she’s married off to an older man
Tahira Naqvi
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‘Teru’: Sahitya Akademi-winning Kannada novel questions uncritical acceptance of religious ritualism
Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
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Sunday book pick: Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’ is a total romp
Sayari Debnath
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‘Unmoored’: Translated Tamil novella about migration takes the reader on a journey of their own
Nandan S Kaushik
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In this old novel by KA Abbas, the hero grapples with colonial rule and the need for a revolution
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
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Fiction: Waleed trades a life of petty crime for something bigger by joining Karachi’s ruling party
Hamza Jalil Albasit
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Fiction by Upamanyu Chatterjee: A hungry man, deranged by the smell of meat, kills a family of six
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Fiction: A social media influencer ends up on a dangerous path but finds an unlikely saviour
Divyansh Mundra
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Fiction: A retired man is forced to return to work after builders foil his attempts to buy a house
MR Dattathri
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‘The Book of Disappearance’: The dangerous ease with which colonial dispossession can become routine
Neeraja Srinivasan