Fiction
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This novel is a wicked study of love and affairs among the rich set of Mumbai
Shunali Khullar Shroff
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Fiction pick: What happened when Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose met Hitler? Read this re-creation
Vishwas Patil
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To admire Daphne du Maurier, the novel we must read is not ‘Rebecca’ but ‘My Cousin Rachel’
Radhika Oberoi
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A gay Afghan’s search for his identity turns intensely political in this novel
Gokul S Prabhu
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Drawing the line: This book of animal stories charms with its words as well as its illustrations
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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What is special about this novel of gay love? That it is set in Afghanistan, where this is a crime
Nemat Sadat
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In ‘Babu Bangladesh!’, South Asian literature gets a wildly imaginative novel that defies genres
Numair Atif Choudhury
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What can happen when old friends and lovers from college reunite two decades later? Ask this novel
Devapriya Roy
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Tequila Leila is dead, but she keeps thinking. Elif Shafak’s new novel begins with this strangeness
Elif Shafak
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‘I am the most beautiful democratic relationship’: Ravinder Singh’s new novel celebrates friendship
Ravinder Singh
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These short stories explore the diversities of different feminisms, with the hijab as a symbol
Suhasini Patni
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Reading this epic novel is an immersive way of learning the history of Tibet
Rohan Parikh
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‘Afternoon Raag’ reminds us Amit Chaudhuri wrote ‘autofiction’ 25 years before it became a trend
James Wood
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How have animals marked Indian literature? Here is an anthology of stories that seeks answers
Sumana Roy
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An un-Kshatriya-like Siddhartha is in love with Yashodhara. Will her father allow the marriage?
Volga
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The trauma of being forced to learn English is played out painfully in this small town classroom
Neelesh Raghuwanshi
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Paul Zacharia’s novel is a heady cocktail of religion, politics, and ideas stirred into a mystery
Gokul S Prabhu
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With ‘The Atlas of Reds and Blues’, Devi S Laskar turns the Indian immigrant novel on its head
Suhasini Patni
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A boy kills a family foe and is on the run with his father in this novel set in rural Tamil Nadu
Poomani
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Muhammad Bin Tughlaq’s story cannot be told in an unconvincing, furious account of a violent life
Urmi Chanda-Vaz