Fiction
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Nilanjana Roy’s new novel is a noir mystery highlighting community divide and violence against women
Nilanjana S Roy
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize announces shortlists across eight categories
Scroll Staff
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Janice Pariat’s new novel travels with four people separated in space and time but joined by plants
Janice Pariat
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Magical realism blends with personal history in a new novel about Bangladesh’s quest for freedom
Iffat Nawaz
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Children’s Day fiction: Girl in magical jungle answers tough questions to save her father’s life
Arefa Tehsin
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Tata Literature Live announces winners in all categories for its 2022 awards
Scroll Staff
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What is the shin honkaku sub-genre of mystery? How did Japanese writer Soji Shimada make it popular?
Saptak Choudhury
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Children’s Day reading list: 17 books for readers from the very young to those coming of age
Sayari Debnath
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‘Manjhi’s Mayhem’: A tightly-spun racy crime novel that has you rooting for a murderous anti-hero
Sayari Debnath
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Manu Bhatthathiri’s new short stories illuminate the dark corners of small towns – with humour
Saloni Sharma
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Bollywood glamour, interfering friends and fans come between star-crossed lovers in this LGBTQ novel
Minita Sanghvi
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Read ‘Bapo Kale’s House’ by José Lourenço from a new anthology of short stories from Goa
José Lourenço
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A newly translated historical novel tells stories from the banks of rivers in Portugal and India
Vasudhendra
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A new sci-fi fantasy book follows a 12-year-old girl’s quest to fulfil a 2,000-year-old prophecy
Payal Dhar
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Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka is as witty and imaginative as ever in his new short stories
Sayari Debnath
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Tanuj Solanki’s latest novel is a noir crime thriller – with broken noses, bloody heads, and murder
Tanuj Solanki
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Tata Literature Live announces shortlisted titles in all categories for its 2022 literary awards
Scroll Staff
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In praise of Stephen King, the eternal ‘horror master’ of serious light reading
Ari Mattes, The Conversation
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How Keikichi Ōsaka blended crime with philosophical meditations on the puzzling nature of existence
Saptak Choudhury
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‘The Monkey’s Wound and Other Stories’: How women rebel against the cruel structures of patriarchy
Areeb Ahmad