Fiction
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Fiction: Kashmir is expected to join Pakistan after Partition, but King Hari Singh has other plans
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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Fiction: A teacher resists orders to teach false history to students in turbulent 1980s’ Pakistan
Tahira Naqvi
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Raj Kamal Jha’s new novel is narrated as confessions from parent to child and from child to parent
Raj Kamal Jha
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Fiction: A Bengali-American woman tries to make sense of her world as the US-Iraq war unfolds
Gemini Wahhaj
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Detective fiction: An intense exploration of the squalor and vice that fester in shadowy city lanes
Anita Nair
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December fiction reads: Six recently published books to end the year with
Sayari Debnath
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‘This is Salvaged’: Decay and preservation take centrestage in Vauhini Vara’s new short stories
Sayari Debnath
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History reimagined: Condemned as a drunken wastrel, what was Bahadur Shah of Gujarat really like?
Kalpish Ratna
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Children’s fiction: Three friends (and a dog) crack a case of an antiquity smuggling racket
Mallika Ravikumar
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Italy’s far-right claim ‘The Lord of the Rings’ – but they’ve misread JRR Tolkien’s message
Tom Emanuel, The Conversation
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Fiction: Tales about gambles, betrayals, and plots of fierce and ferocious rulers of ancient India
SV Iyer
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Alternative reality: Man wakes up in desert town and is drawn into a plan to kidnap a billionaire
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Fiction: Puja and Arush are separated by continents and time zones. Will their love survive?
Preeti Shenoy
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Fiction: A British man and Indian woman’s marriage is affected by their nations’ turbulent histories
Achala Moulik
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Children’s fiction: When Mini and her new friend try to go cracker-free at Diwali
Nandini Nayar
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For whom the bell tolls: tales of murder and madness on the fictional Gokumon Island
Saptak Choudhury
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‘The Sea Elephants’: A young boy who is often made to feel alone finds his own skin in costumes
Sonal Dugar
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‘Hurda’ interrogates circumstances that make misogynistic tragedies possible, and forgotten
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Fiction: A lawyer has fun with the law while helping clients through dire straits
Shishir Vayttaden
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Manju Kapur’s new novel explores sexual freedom and art through the lives of two families
Manju Kapur