Fiction
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‘Gulabiya’ is an alternative imagination of personal rebellion against caste and patriarchy
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Urmimala’s upper-class life is shot to pieces when her husband is accused of sexual assault
Shuma Raha
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‘Fieldwork as a Sex Object’: Meena Kandasamy’s angry new novel is ever so slightly overcooked
Sayari Debnath
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‘Register Me as Kulbhushan’: This Bengal partition novel is a paean to the human ability to adapt
Madhulika Liddle
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Fiction: Semba and Maari discover the strength and solidarity in being fisherwomen
Akila Kannadasan
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Romance fiction: The only way to get Mr McMiller to sell his plot is by dating one of his daughters
Anmol Malik
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‘Super’: An immigrant novel about life’s absurd dramas driven by the meaninglessness of desire
Priyanka Chatterjee
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Fiction: A book of interconnected stories spans the past, present and future in Kashmir
Muddasir Ramzan
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Jamir Nazir wins 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for story at the centre of an AI controversy
Scroll Staff
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Tahmima Anam’s new novel: Women begin a rebellion that will upend the very order of things
Tahmima Anam
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‘Unfolding’: Rahul Singh’s novel presents unpretentious love in queer and working-class lives
Diya Sengupta
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Female cannibals: What’s behind the emerging horror fiction trend?
Charlotte Elliott, The Conversation
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Fiction: A woman, on her ‘fifth drink, or maybe the sixth’, struggles to make sense of her marriage
Kamal Trilok Singh
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Fiction: Mehr, a graphic novelist, stumbles upon Queen Jind Kaur and is immediately taken in by her
Sakoon Singh
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Short fiction: A salesman who’s down on his luck takes it out on a young street urchin
Salil Desai
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Meena Kandasamy’s new novel: A scandalous deepfake video of an Indian Marxist woman goes viral
Meena Kandasamy
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Sunday book pick: Dorothy Baker’s jazz novel ‘Young Man With a Horn’ gets you grooving
Sayari Debnath
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June global fiction: Six new novels that make the perfect mid-year reads
Scroll Staff
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Horror fiction: As hauntings intensify in a haveli, the legend of a cursed queen starts to feel real
Neil D'Silva
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Fiction: Maria, the narrator’s childhood nurse, turns to the occult to bring back her refugee son
Tabish Khair