Fiction
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Is there space on serious Indian bookshelves for the silliness of a racy crime novel?
Samyukta Bhowmick
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Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
Sayari Debnath
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This novel reimagines the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, Devavrata
Vaishnavi Patel
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Fiction: In the shadows of their turbulent pasts, three women find their destinies intertwined
Kiran Manral
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Fiction: Arijit Basu does not know that he has hired an undocumented migrant as a domestic worker
Bhaskar Roy
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Sunday book pick: The many reflections of womanhood in Danielle Pender’s ‘Watching Women and Girls’
Sayari Debnath
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Booker Prize review: Desire, suspicion, and obsession comprise the emotional core of ‘The Safekeep’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Everything changes when D’Asthetique, a swank salon, opens in a colony of beauty parlours
Akshita Nanda
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Horror fiction: Tara has written some (in)famous romances featuring monsters. Now one is hunting her
Kritika Kapoor
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For children: A teenaged prince Ram stumbles upon a secret plot to steal a divine weapon
RK Singh
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Fiction: Kalyanaraman visits Mempatti to study folk songs. He is put up in a mysterious old mansion
Sujatha Malini Seshadri
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Fiction: When a Delhi tabloid editor is poisoned, everyone is puzzled. Who would want to kill him?
Samyukta Bhowmick
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Booker Prize review: The wretched of the earth in Charlotte Wood’s novel ‘Stone Yard Devotional’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A real-estate developer’s journal about his tiresome run-ins with middlemen and politicians
Sarojesh Mukherjee
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Fiction: A young man falls in love with a woman on the rooftop across during a Covid-19 lockdown
Radhika Swarup
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Fiction: Namya’s privileged college life is challenged when crossing paths with Vir, a village boy
Nayantara Violet Alva
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Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest announces longlists in five categories for its 2024 book awards
Scroll Staff
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Sunday book pick: Being young and bored in Carson McCullers’s novel ‘The Member of the Wedding’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: The only way for Xavier to resolve his troubles is to know his scandalous ancestor, Francis
TD Ramakrishnan Priya K Nair
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Fiction: Mamta learns of the bloodthirsty dakini while investigating mysterious deaths in a village
K Hari Kumar