Fiction
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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
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These two novels by one writer, set in rural Rajasthan, venture into the darkness of personal spaces
Anukrti Upadhyay
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In this novel the British Chewing Gum company targets paan consumers (and needs a cow for a mascot)
Parashar Kulkarni
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A daughter’s quest for her dead mother’s past lights up this novel that begins with her grief
Madhuri Vijay
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A bizarre double murder sparks the beginning of political mayhem in Pakistan in this novel
Sheheryar B Sheikh
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This ambitious novel set in World War II Calcutta misses an opportunity despite its promise
Ibtisam Ahmed
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India’s last civil servant recollects the bitter fruits of the past in this speculative novel
Varun Thomas Mathew
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A Calcutta nightclub and its singers star in this World War II novel of love under colonialism
Sharbari Zohra Ahmed
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Raga Heartbreak: Singer Shubha Mudgal’s stories from the world of music are fine-tuned to loss
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Colson Whitehead returns with a novel uncovering a brutal, buried story of Black history
Paromita Patranobish
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This fiction diptych uses Bollywood to capture the story of the Indian republic in turmoil
Jason Keith Fernandes
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Would Donald Trump have changed his mind about badmouthing Baltimore if he had read this novel?
Amitabha Bagchi
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This fictional biography of a Sri Lankan woman architect is (also) a feminist view of the arts
Sharanya
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‘The Body Myth’: This novel interrogates notions of normalcy in love, life, longing – and loss
Rohan Parikh
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Like its country of origin, ‘Babu Bangladesh’ is a polyphonous enigma, masquerading as a novel
Arnav Das Sharma