Fiction
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In this novel, two sisters in their twenties are starving in their flat in a city. Why?
Vandana Singh-Lal
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‘Menoka Has Hanged Herself’: A film historian writes a novel set in the early era of Bengali cinema
Sharmistha Gooptu
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‘That night, Daddy left’: In this novel, a marriage, an affair, family history, and a shot at love
Dharini Bhaskar
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A former hitman writes from life in this novel about his dilemma over killing a rival gangster
Agni Sreedhar
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Harry Potter fandom leads four lonely people to form bonds in Keshava Guha’s debut novel
Keshava Guha
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Few novels present oppression and suffering through hard stories the way Uzma Aslam Khan’s book does
Osama Siddique
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Romesh Gunesekera returns to Sri Lanka, the country of his birth, with this coming-of-age novel
Romesh Gunesekera
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Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’: How to decode the story’s linguistic secrets
Simon Horobin, The Conversation
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This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends
Suhasini Patni
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Meet DCP Rita Ferreira, the fictional detective who stars amongst Mumbai’s top policemen
Vish Dhamija
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This novel begins on the night before the separation between the narrator and her husband
Silvia Arazi
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‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths
Daniel Cook, The Conversation
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First read: Death, love, and madness all lie at the heart of Cyrus Mistry’s new novel
Cyrus Mistry
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‘Babu Bangladesh’: A literary agent remembers the making of a debut novel – and its author’s death
Kanishka Gupta
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Here’s what’s special about Madhuri Vijay’s ‘The Far Field’, winner of the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize
Paromita Patranobish
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This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee (2001-’17) wrote these stories at 16. She would have been 18 when published
Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee
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Can a book be haunted? Read this story from a collection of intimate tales from forgotten places
Aruni Kashyap
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Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla’s strangely real world is back in this English translation of his fiction
Vinod Kumar Shukla
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When a god-fearing, vegetarian, middle-class businessman gets a huge but troubling opportunity
Parinda Joshi