Fiction
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This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it
Ira Mukhoty
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‘The Illuminated’: A novel that puts grieving and women’s agency in conversation with each other
Saloni Sharma
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‘A Death In Shonagachhi’: This debut novel eschews a smart script in favour of the real, messy world
Gayathri Sankar
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Caste, brutality and a sense of justice inform this collection of Imayam’s stories in translation
Imayam
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Why ‘The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories’ deserves a space on every feminist and political bookshelf
Saloni Sharma
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‘Murugan Trilogy’: Part one begins with Ganesh waiting for his brother Murugan to be born
Kala Krishnan
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‘The Illuminated’: A mother and a daughter confront religious fundamentalism in this debut novel
Anindita Ghose
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This debut novel examines power and privilge in Delhi society with an unforgiving eye
Shivani Sibal
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The murder of a prostituted woman is the beginning of this literary novel lurking beneath a thriller
Rijula Das
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Tahmima Anam’s new novel: Can a new marriage survive the whirwind success of the wife’s start-up?
Tahmima Anam
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‘A Passage North’ compels you to think not just about the novel but about your own life
Gayathri Sankar
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‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India
Chandan Pandey
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‘Asoca’: Irwin Allan Sealy’s new novel is a modern reconstruction of the life of Emperor Ashoka
Irwin Allan Sealy
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Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight
Indu Menon
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‘Gods and Ends’: Lindsay Pereira’s novel offers an unflinching eye for stories of the wretched
Sahana Hegde
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‘Mahanadi’: Anita Agnihotri’s epic Bengali novel following the course of a river is now in English
Anita Agnihotri
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Anuk Arudpragasam’s long awaited second novel confronts life in the aftermath of devastation
Anuk Arudpragasam
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Whodunnit? A protesting student is murdered during the Prince of Wales’s Bombay visit in 1921
Sujata Massey
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Anjali Joseph’s ‘Keeping in Touch’ is an ode to (extra)ordinary lives in the guise of a romance
Ipshita Mitra