Fiction
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Muhammad Bin Tughlaq’s story cannot be told in an unconvincing, furious account of a violent life
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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This novel about women fighting the demolition of their slum is a story of friendship and resilience
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Perveen Mistry returns: A new novel takes the 1920s crime-solving lawyer to the kingdom of Satapur
Sujata Massey
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The firepower of feminist fantasies is on full view in this anthology featuring ‘magical women’
Jai Arjun Singh
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This is how the new novel by ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ author EL James begins. (Fans will be pleased.)
EL James
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A collection of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s short stories embodies his signature writing against the grain
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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This dark tale from Goa, told in words and pictures, is made less menacing by detached storytelling
Nandita Dutta
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Fed up of filthy waters, the goddess Ganga demands inclusion in the Tridevi in this short story
Trisha Das
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Running a Chinese restaurant in Mumbai is no wok in the park in Chandrahas Choudhury's new book
Chandrahas Choudhury
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‘Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction’: A debut novel that turns into an endless search for purpose
Sayali Palekar
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‘Things that can be suffocating and dangerous’: Tishani Doshi on her novel ‘Small Days and Nights’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This Urdu short story by Joginder Paul brings Indian readers a slice of life in Kenya
Joginder Paul
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The Japanese occupation of the Andamans during World War II changes lives irrevocably in this novel
Uzma Aslam Khan
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How illustrations have kept the magical appeal of ‘Robinson Crusoe’ alive for successive generations
Christian Algar
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A cursing, scooter-riding, occult detective lights up this dark fantasy novel featuring tantriks
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘The Overstory’: Why this urgent love letter to trees is a fitting Pulitzer winner for our times
Urvashi Bahuguna
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N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind
Karthik Shankar
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This novel in translation imagines the Partition from the perspective of women who stayed at home
Niyati Bafna
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‘The Fate of Butterflies’: A quietly told novel that is full of menace because it can happen to us
Suhasini Patni
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Marlon James takes fantasy fiction as we know it and makes it breathtakingly new
Arnab Chakraborty