Fiction
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‘Chamor’: This debut novel lays bare arcs of exploitation in seemingly congenial settings
Abdullah Khan
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What to read in May? Seven books to spend the hottest month of the year with
Sayari Debnath
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This collection of three novellas tells stories of humans and animals coming together
Nirmal Ghosh
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An iconic novel by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das is reborn through an English translation
Jibanananda Das
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‘Rohzin’: This novel of interrelated lives explores love, lovers, longing and the city of Mumbai
Rahman Abbas
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‘Hungry Humans’: This Tamil novel is located on the intersection between desire, morality and caste
Karichan Kunju
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‘The Immortal King Rao’: Immigration, capitalism, and technology converge in this debut novel
Vauhini Vara
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‘Song of the Soil’ channels the aborted political movement for Gorkhaland through fiction
Chitra Ahanthem
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2022 Jhalak Prize longlist: Twelve handpicked books across genres by writers of colour in Britain
Scroll Staff
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‘Two and a Half Rivers’: A moving novel of caste discrimination and isolation in Punjab
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Kashmir’s stories are best told by Kashmiris themselves, shows this anthology of short fiction
Niyati Bhat
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This young adult romance channels a serious story about a boy with heart trouble
Ranjit Lal
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This debut novel complicates the lives of Parsis and a Bengali family in Mumbai
Pronoti Datta
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‘Run and Hide’: Pankaj Mishra’s novel takes a hard look at the politics of optics in modern India
Saloni Sharma
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This novel unveils a college student’s mental world through seven writing classes
Shreya Ramachandran
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In this YA novel, two young girls in Manipur run headlong into an adult world of drugs and arms
Mandira Shah
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Anti-Semitism, opportunism, political intrigue: Olga Tokarczuk’s whirlwind tour of the 18th century
Isabelle Hesse, The Conversation
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Neel Patel’s novel plays the themes of past hurt and closure within a diaspora family of Indians
Chitra Ahanthem
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Seven recommended books (only from India) for your bookshelf this March
Sayari Debnath
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Upamanyu Chatterjee asks in his new novel what villainy is, and offers uncomfortable answers
Saloni Sharma