Fiction
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‘Being Gandhi’: This YA novel examines what it means to be Gandhian in modern and contemporary India
Paro Anand
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The near-forgotten ‘Demon of Cawnpore’ revealed Jules Verne’s reading of India and its conflicts
Revanth Ukkalam
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For the first time in recent years, a novel set in Afghanistan talks about intimacy, not just war
Suhasini Patni
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This not-romance between a daughter and her mother is a sensitive study in relationships
Esha Datanwala
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Why we must read ‘The Testaments’ for hope whenever there is an authoritative regime
Saloni Sharma
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In this novel a Kerala village institutes a deity who only wants to ride motorcycles
Murali K Menon
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This novel shows us what can happen when racism and violence collide with relationships
Antara Datta
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‘Repentance’: Read this short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay on his 125th birth anniversary
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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In ‘Quichotte’, Salman Rushdie reimagines a classic in an age where truth is lost to manipulation
Arnav Das Sharma
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An Indian on the moon: Inspector Matadeen was there before anyone else in this satirical short story
Harishankar Parsai
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‘The Angel’s Beauty Spots’: Love and violence are blended into KR Meera’s new book of novellas
KR Meera
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The evolution of the transhuman in popular fiction is exploring lives beyond the physical body
Shareena Z Hamzah, The Conversation
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You know you’re a nineties’ kid if you find this novel about growing up in Delhi familiar
Yashodhara Lal
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Annie Zaidi’s new novel takes us to a south Indian town where trouble is being brewed, deliberately
Annie Zaidi
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A retirement home for domestic workers, but who are they? One of the ‘Strange’ stories in a new book
Shreya Sen Handley
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A child’s muteness pits nurture and love against a male culture of success in this Iranian novel
Suhasini Patni
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Partition stories: How a family had to choose between conversion and fleeing their homeland
Sohan S Koonar
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‘Guru, why didn’t you speak to Gandhi in English?’ Unni R’s short stories are wildly original
Unni R
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How safe is it to investigate your mother’s troubled past if it reveals that you are like her too?
Avni Doshi
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In these calm stories of everyday life, Vinod Kumar Shukla elevates the small to the sublime
Sharmistha Mohanty