Fiction
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‘The Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s new novel fluidly tells unconnected stories and overwhelms you
Gayathri Sankar
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Even if you know everything about Emperor Ashoka, there are very good reasons to read ‘Asoca’
Sahana Hegde
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‘Alipura’: The definitive novel of Bundelkhand, funny and tender, can now be read in English
Gyan Chaturvedi
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‘Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s intricate new novel is centred on a potter and a horse he creates
Anuradha Roy
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Crime and the single, independent woman: This novel asks uncomfortable questions
Madhumita Bhattacharyya
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‘Darklands’: Arnav Das Sharma’s coming-of-age novel in an all-too-real Indian dystopia falters
Devarsi Ghosh
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The fiercely original ‘Detransition, Baby’ pushes back against heteronormative storytelling
Saurabh Sharma
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In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative
Isa Ayidh
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‘Beyond the Stars’: Stories Qurratulain Hyder wrote in her teens
Qurratulain Hyder
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A new collection presents the short fiction of Assamese writer Harekrishna Deka in all its urgency
Harekrishna Deka
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‘The Politician’: Finally, an English novel set in the heartland of Indian politics, Uttar Pradesh
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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A novel that asks what a young woman’s life is like when there only men around her
Parinda Joshi
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‘Radiant Fugitives’: This novel is told from the point of view of a child at the moment of his birth
Nawaaz Ahmed
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How the decades-old Japanese honkaku murder mysteries are making a comeback in English translation
Arunima Mazumdar
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Payal Dhar’s YA novel with a queer theme runs the risk of over-simplifying the complexities
Prerna Vij
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‘Padmini of Malwa’ blurs the line between fiction and history. What does this mean for storytelling?
Isa Ayidh
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‘Legal Fiction’: Chandan Pandey’s novel shows us how to tell troubling truths and call them fiction
Saloni Sharma
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Shivani Sibal’s debut novel neatly slices open class equations within Delhi’s power elite
Isa Ayidh
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Set in Meghalaya, ‘Funeral Nights’ is an ambitious, unconventional novel about the Khasi people
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
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‘The Startup Wife’: The wry, level gaze of a female coder probes a male world with sardonic humour
Gayathri Sankar