Fiction
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Sophie Kinsella’s new novel shows all that is right (and all that is wrong) with modern chick lit
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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‘Tell Her Everything’: Mirza Waheed’s new novel affirms that we are all many shades of grey
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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Paul Zacharia’s mercurial new novel features – among others – god, Stalin, and Satan
Paul Zacharia
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Reading list: Seven pivotal texts by African American women writers that resisted ‘misogynoir’
Nancy Kang, The Conversation
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An eerie walk in the hills comes to an unexpected end in this short story by actor Manav Kaul
Manav Kaul
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A violent crime reveals India’s flawed justice system in this novel about an unlikely friendship
Mukta Sathe
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‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’: Krishna Sobti fictionalises her own encounter with the Partition
Krishna Sobti
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This novel about a Kashmiri-Pakistani love story occupies a space between illusion and reality
Manisha Gangahar
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HM Naqvi’s ambitious new novel has much to relish but its rambling narrative voice makes that hard
Jai Arjun Singh
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This novel ‘should not have been written, but had to be written’, according to Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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Can an entire society be brainwashed into forgetting its virtues? Nayantara Sahgal’s novel finds out
Nayantara Sahgal
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‘Waiting’: The private worlds of women open up in this unsparing collection of short stories
Nighat Gandhi
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The past, the future and the present intertwine with the lives of three Dalit students in this novel
Githa Hariharan
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‘Relapse’: Like history, is love with the same person repeated first as tragedy and then as farce?
Suhasini Patni
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What if our everyday emotions turned into diseases? This novel explores the possibilities
Sayali Palekar
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This crime series set in Bangkok’s neon-lit streets brings the city’s lurid side to life
Amish Raj Mulmi
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Desire, alienation and masculinity: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s fiery new novel displaces the canon
Sandhya Devesan Nambiar
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‘Hijabistan’: The hijab unites these stories about urban women in Pakistan and beyond
Sabyn Javeri
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The unreliable narrative of Dan Mallory aka AJ Finn is a commentary on getting ahead in publishing
Claire Squires, The Conversation
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Colson Whitehead on ‘The Underground Railroad’: ‘There’s no rule about what I can write’
Harsimran Gill