Fiction
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Fiction: The odyssey of an impoverished man at odds with India’s newly-independent status
Aman Singh Maharaj
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Anjana Appachana’s first novel in 20 years: A tender story of love, longing in a Delhi neighbourhood
Anjana Appachana
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A new novel follows a luminous female friendship as two women take on love, life, and patriarchy
R Rajasree
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Science fiction: Two unlikely companions test the habitability of a new world and the future of life
SB Divya
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Gauri Datt’s 1870 book, often considered the first Hindi novel, gets its first English translation
Gauri Datt
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Something sinister is afoot. Will detective Antonia Scott leave retirement to solve the crimes?
Juan Gómez-Jurado
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Actor Vivaan Shah’s new novel: Climbers in search of a mysterious temple make a strange discovery
Vivaan Shah
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Fiction: Horrors of displacement and colonialism told through the lives of four Tibetans in exile
Tsering Yangzom Lama
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Fiction: Pia has an ideal life – or so it seems. But the demons in her mind follow her everywhere
Kritika Kapoor
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Romance fiction: Will Tehzeeb and Ayub’s marriage survive the odds and the differences between them?
Andaleeb Wajid
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A film journalist’s new book of short stories follows the topsy-turvy world of Bollywood celebrities
Priyanka Sinha Jha
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Fiction: Two paintings worth Rs 400 crore are stolen. What secrets do they hide? Will they be found?
Tarun Mehrishi
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Ambition, corruption, guerrilla gardening: Eleanor Catton’s ‘Birnam Wood’ is our horror story
Julian Novitz, The Conversation
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‘The Laughter’: Sonora Jha’s novel about the hypocrisies in academia is layered and oh so real
Shubhangi Tiwari
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A new book of short stories follows small-town young Indian women trying to make it big in cities
Anu Singh Choudhary
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Fiction: Dinkar has been fired from his job. Lost and unemployed, can he find happiness at 29?
Gurpratap Khairah
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Fiction: A poker player plays one last game to wager all his fortune. Will he walk away alive?
Atul Koul Randev
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A new novel examines the 20th century Indian family in terms of marriage, widowhood, and sexuality
Vasantha Kannabiran
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For young readers: A serial killer is on the loose where Nimmi is camping. What will happen to her?
Shabnam Minwalla
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‘Shurjo’s Clan’: In this novel, horrors of the 1971 Bangladesh war refuse to remain buried
Gemini Wahhaj