Fiction
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This classic Urdu romance set during the 1857 war of independence can now be read in English
Khan Mahboob Tarzi
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Haruki Murakami’s new book shows why we are in a love-hate relationship with his short stories
Arunima Mazumdar
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A forest has fallen silent in grief in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s eerie new novel in translation
Vinod Kumar Shukla
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‘The Heart Asks Pleasure First’: This debut tries to do too many things for a focused novel
Sahana Hegde
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Anuja Chauhan’s new novel may be a whodunnit, but its people are its pleasure, as usual
Trisha Gupta
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This book of short stories explores the gritty realities of Mumbai through dreams of individuals
Rochelle Potkar
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Manu Bhattathiri’s novel is set once again in the playfully mythical fictional town of Karuthupuzha
Manu Bhattathiri
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Sarah Joseph’s new novel imagines the life of the woman who was ostracised for ‘marrying’ Nehru
Sarah Joseph
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‘The Curse’: Salma’s short stories talk of women being suffocated in their domestic spaces
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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This novel recounts a Naga (and British) battle against the Japanese in India during World War II
Digonta Bordoloi
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Anubha Yadav’s debut novel lays bare middle-class Indian masculinity, especially for men who deny it
Isa Ayidh
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Tragicomedies unfold in the lives of the tenants of a decrepit Mumbai building in this debut novel
Lindsay Pereira
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The peacock dances and then sheds its feathers. This novel links the plumage to publishing
Isa Ayidh
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What happens to the family of a man arrested for murder? This Shrilal Shukla novel asks the question
Shrilal Shukla
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‘The Unmarriageable Man’: How a successful builder in London is forced to cope with grief (and love)
Ashok Ferrey
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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