Fiction
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Parental, carnal, platonic, romantic, divine: Love comes in many flavours in Ambai’s short stories
Ambai
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How young boys become men: This novel takes an uncompromising look at urban Indian families
Anubha Yadav
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‘Klara and the Sun’: Kazuo Ishiguro returns to old themes but adds technology-inspired twists
Arnab Chakraborty
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In this book of short stories women do things they are not expected to in India
Sayantani Dasgupta
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This novel set in a small town in 1960s’ India is both a love story and a whodunnit
Anuradha Kumar
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‘The Amma who took French Leave’: A story from a collection of short fiction about ‘impetuous women’
Shikhandin
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How a farmers’ march in 2018 entered Anita Agnihotri’s newly translated novel in real time
Anita Agnihotri
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Women’s Day fiction: What a little girl learns about her great-grandmother’s life in a harem
Tarana Husain Khan
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How fiction can help business managers prepare for the uncertainties of the pandemic
Nada Elnahla, The Conversation Ruth McKay, The Conversation
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A debut novel follows two women clashing with male dominance in politics
Mahek Jangda
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This collection of Gracy’s short stories in translation is a frank celebration of female desire
Gracy
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Remembering writer Shovon Chowdhury with his savage 2013 satire ‘The Competent Authority’
Shovon Chowdhury
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Manoranjan Byapari’s new novel in translation imagines the life of a boy as a Namasudra
Manoranjan Byapari
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Will there be love after an environmental apocalypse strikes? A new novel pops the question
Arnav Das Sharma
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‘Civil Lines’: Two sisters stumble on their mother’s secret (and examine their relationship)
Radhika Swarup
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How Delhi has been written over the years in novels and in stories (and essays)
Ranjana Sengupta
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‘Sylvia’: This experimental debut uses prose and poetry to present an enigmatic relationship
Maithreyi Karnoor
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‘No Man’s Land’: Anuradha Sharma Pujaree’s short story riffs on a football match in Meghalaya
Anuradha Sharma Pujaree
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Mirza Ghalib on the trail of a murder gloriously powers this gripping work of historical fiction
Abdullah Khan
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Investigator turns down case and blank cheque. But it’s only the beginning in this crime novel
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay