Fiction
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‘I was so ignorant, naïve, small-minded that I couldn’t have possibly written anything better.’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Want to know more about ‘late stage capitalism’? Read this satirical novel from Australia
Simon Ryan, The Conversation
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Refuge, reparation, return: What reading Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel ‘The Far Field’ brings to mind
Sayali Palekar
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Indian revolutionaries plan to ambush a train carrying the Kohinoor diamond in this novel
Rensil D’Silva
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This novel about a thrilling fight between two boxers in India is based on a real-life person
Timeri N Murari
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An inheritance and a 22-year-old college student: This novel is about the birth of a Mumbai bookshop
Rehana Munir
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What roles do a merman and the end of the world play in this novel in the form of an ancient fable?
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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This novel weaves together searing personal memories of the Partition and the anti-Sikh pogrom
Gokul S Prabhu
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‘Can the desire to abandon one life and live another be dangerous?’ Madhuri Vijay on her debut novel
Urvashi Bahuguna
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A love triangle between an editor, a blogger and an author? This novel goes where publishers do not
Neharika Gupta
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Why is a former Mumbai police hero holed up in the Himalayas? Meet an all new fictional detective
Udayan Mukherjee
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Dystopia or utopia? Politics or aesthetics? What are the challenges of writing climate fiction?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘The protagonist’s identity of marginalised gay Muslim Afghan refugee is definitely mine’
Gokul S Prabhu
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These stories of love and longing in a Mumbai high-rise gently get to the heart of urban anxieties
Soumya Bhattacharya
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‘The Witcher’ books, coming to Netflix, tell their stories in ways seldom seen in fantasy fiction
Kaustav Sood
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Why contemporary fiction can no longer evade an ethical obligation to engage with the climate crisis
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Do John le Carré’s spy novels distort the real image of Britain’s secret intelligent service?
Christopher J Murphy, The Conversation
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Beneath the veneer of a crime novel, ‘You Beneath Your Skin’ is a study of problematic relationships
Rituparna Roy
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An outspoken young woman in a feisty job interview sets the tone in Durjoy Datta’s new novel
Durjoy Datta
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What fictional superheroes can tell us about devotion and why we believe in gods
Thomas Swan and Jamin Halberstadt, The Conversation