Fiction
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Can an entire society be brainwashed into forgetting its virtues? Nayantara Sahgal’s novel finds out
Nayantara Sahgal
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‘Waiting’: The private worlds of women open up in this unsparing collection of short stories
Nighat Gandhi
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The past, the future and the present intertwine with the lives of three Dalit students in this novel
Githa Hariharan
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‘Relapse’: Like history, is love with the same person repeated first as tragedy and then as farce?
Suhasini Patni
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What if our everyday emotions turned into diseases? This novel explores the possibilities
Sayali Palekar
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This crime series set in Bangkok’s neon-lit streets brings the city’s lurid side to life
Amish Raj Mulmi
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Desire, alienation and masculinity: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s fiery new novel displaces the canon
Sandhya Devesan Nambiar
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‘Hijabistan’: The hijab unites these stories about urban women in Pakistan and beyond
Sabyn Javeri
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The unreliable narrative of Dan Mallory aka AJ Finn is a commentary on getting ahead in publishing
Claire Squires, The Conversation
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Colson Whitehead on ‘The Underground Railroad’: ‘There’s no rule about what I can write’
Harsimran Gill
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Easterine Kire’s new novel offers an insightful history of Nagaland through the stories of two women
Makepeace Sitlhou
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‘Tell Her Everything’: A doctor reflects on a dark past in Mirza Waheed’s new novel
Mirza Waheed
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Love, longing and lotus: This novel goes inside a boys’ school run by an order of monks
Saikat Majumdar
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‘It’s about the saddest things I can think of’: Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer on his comic novel
Harsimran Gill
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‘When George III Drives a Train’: A short story by KR Meera
KR Meera
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Krishna Sobti lost a childhood friend in the Partition riots and wrote about her in fiction – twice
Krishna Sobti
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A Van Gogh has been stolen. Is the thief Indian? A new crime novel chases an art masterpiece
Vish Dhamija
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The death of Buffet Bhatt and the antics of Coke Rao: This novel takes a knife to Delhi’s swish set
Ravi Shankar Etteth
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Shame and displacement lead to an unexpected end in this short story from an all-women anthology
Reshma Ruia
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The eternal story of the Rani of Jhansi gets a new treatment in this novel
Moupia Basu