Fiction
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Samit Basu’s new novel looks at normal life ten years in the future, after multiple-choice disasters
Samit Basu
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New to graphic novels? Start with these five classics that has had millions hooked over the decades
David Brauner, The Conversation
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Fiction: 30 days and nights in the lives of two lovers and a homeless family during a lockdown
Siddhartha Gigoo
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Read at home: Mohammed Hanif’s stunning debut was a mordant satire on a Pakistani dictator’s death
Hanif Mohammed
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Can dystopian fiction the ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ series shape real-world political attitudes
Calvert Jones, Aeon Celia Paris, Aeon
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In this novel three generations of doctors fight against deadly epidemics in Calcutta
Ashoke Mukhopadhyay
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Read at home: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s novel ‘Bhaunri’
Anukrti Upadhyay
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Read at home: A poignant scene between a father and a daughter in Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Read at home: Life and love under a lockdown in and around an Andaman prison during the British raj
Uzma Aslam Khan
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Read at home: Meet Amma Bi and Jumman in this short story by actor Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapur
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Read at home: Imagine a place run entirely by women. A man discovers it – and is appalled
Amita Kanekar
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NYT No 1 bestseller Sarah J Maas is back with a new fantasy series: ‘House of Earth and Blood’
Sarah J Maas
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This novel throws new light on the world of the living by showing us how a dead man might see it
Harsimran Gill
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‘The Play Of Dolls’: Kunwar Narain’s early short fiction also shows why he was a legendary poet
Kunwar Narain
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A plague from the east ravages the world late in the 21st century, in Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’
Mary Shelley
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Hilary Mantel’s latest in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy brings to life the ‘unbiographical’ Englishman
Janet Dickinson, The Conversation
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‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’ is a classic coming-of-age novel of present day India
Jai Arjun Singh
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The old-fashioned whodunit makes a comeback in this novel set in the Shimla of the British Raj
Bulbul Sharma
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Two fathers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, are united in grief for their daughters in this novel
Colum McCann
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Kunal Basu’s latest novel in English depicts a search for motherhood as much as one for a mother
Avik Chanda