Fiction
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‘Do not use most of your research’: How novelist Nayomi Munaweera ensures she doesn’t bore readers
Rheea Mukherjee
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Murders and mysteries, yes, but these five books are far from being your average crime novel
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘A Laughing Girl on the Back Seat of a Scooter’: A vintage story by a Pakistani writer
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
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When the Strand Book Stall played host to a fantasy romance between Suketu Mehta and a young author
Veena Venugopal
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This novel is the untold tragic history of Chinese settlers in Assam (and of love and separation)
Easterine Kire
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‘The thing about writing sex is that it is as complicated as humans are’: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Harsimran Gill
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Kambar’s ‘Karimayi’ is too simplistic a depiction of the old order versus the new in Karnataka
Nikhil Govind
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The fictional young men and women of Muzaffarnagar bring home the facts beyond the headlines
Neha Bhatt
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How compelling fiction can lead readers to believe in fake facts
Andrew Elfenbein, The Conversation
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‘Character is the foundation of crime fiction’: Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of ‘His Bloody Project
Chandrima Pal
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Perumal Murugan’s ‘Poonachi’ is a fable about a goat that tells a story of humans, love and freedom
Supriya Nair
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‘Poonachi’ is Perumal Murugan’s first novel after he was attacked for ‘One Part Woman’
Perumal Murugan
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Embracing your complicated family and four other lessons on fiction writing from Amy Tan
Harsimran Gill
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In ‘Jasoda’, Kiran Nagarkar succeeds in giving us an extraordinary heroine in the form of Everywoman
Lamat R Hasan
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How the mystery of the disappearing object (and people) baffles readers of crime fiction
Jai Arjun Singh
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Meet Perveen Mistry, the lawyer who solves crimes in Sujata Massey’s books in 1920s’ Bombay
Anu Kumar
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‘Djinn City’ is a highly ambitious and accomplished addition to South Asian fantasy literature
Gautam Bhatia
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Will we get to read the unpublished work of JD Salinger, or will it be ‘Catcher In The Rye’ forever?
M Saad
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‘I knew I had something extraordinary’: Chiki Sarkar on what makes Amitabha Bagchi new novel special
Chiki Sarkar
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How Double Singh got his name: This novel by a former publisher only begins with that story
Ashok Chopra