Fiction
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‘The Lying Life of Adults’: Why we can’t stop reading a novel featuring an unlikeable adolescent
Vighnesh Hampapura
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A novel about Maradona from Bengal, home to millions of his fans, imagines his life off the field
Kamal Chakraborty
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A novel about Maradona from Bengal, home to millions of his fans, imagines his life off the field
Kamal Chakraborty
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In this novel, a young Khasi woman comes of age in the politically charged city of Shillong
Daribha Lyndem
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‘We have not comprehended the real scars left by the lockdown’: Author Udayan Mukherjee
Sandip Roy
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Are we in control? Or does something control us? Kunwar Narain’s stories ask this critical question
Sucharita Dutta-Asane
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‘Migrants’: This short story speaks for many of those forced to walk back home during the lockdown
Sivasankari
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In this novel Stephen Alter rewrites the tale of Mowgli and ‘Jungle Book’ in a new time and place
Stephen Alter
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‘Suralakshmi Villa’: A world in which women stand up to patriarchy and abuse – and win
Namita Sethi
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‘Cabin No 1130-A’: Manoj Kumar Panda’s short story set in a hospital during the pandemic
Manoj Kumar Panda
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Moustache: This magical, playful novel features people made not of flesh and blood, but of stories
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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‘That was creepy!’ Ten-year-old Bhrigu and his father run into a mysterious old man and a crow
Soumitra Ranade
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Udayan Mukherjee’s new book is a collection of short stories set in the time of the pandemic
Udayan Mukherjee
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‘Piranesi’: Susanna Clarke’s long-awaited second novel is worth the long wait. And it includes magic
Shreya Ila Anasuya
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‘Plague Ki Chudail’: This bittersweet short story from 1902 explores grief, fear and mortality
Master Bhagwan Das
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Comradeship in love distinguishes this novel of rebuilding refugee lives after the Bengal Partition
Rituparna Roy
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Economists have a lot more in common with literature, especially novels, than hard science
Carolin Benack, The Conversation
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What are the ethics of thievery? VJ James’s ‘Chorashastra’ is a wicked study in irony and symbolism
Varsha Ramachandran
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‘These, Our Bodies, Possessed By Light’: Women are in love, with their relationships with themselves
Suhasini Patni
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‘The Shadow King’: The Booker shortlisted novel choreographs women’s footprints on the battlefield
Aditi Sriram