Fiction
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Robert Clive reimagined: How to use the techniques of novel-writing for historical figures
Alex Rutherford
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This meditative novel about devadasis and the consumption of art is held back by its moralism
Supriya Nair
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One story, two endings: This is how Perumal Murugan’s dual sequels to ‘One Part Woman’ begin
Perumal Murugan
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This novel by a doctor is actually an encyclopaedia of impossible illnesses that people suffer from
Vikram Paralkar
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‘Washington Black’: A novel that puts the oppressed in the world of oppressors and sees what happens
Veena Muthuraman
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This novel, told by an assassin, is a parable about Pakistan (and a murdered Nobel Prize winner)
Zarar Said
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An unexpected swayamvara: This novel recreates the story of Amba from the Mahabharata
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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Can the first page make or break a novelist’s career? An editor answers
Pooja Bhula
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Meet Su Venkatesan, whose serialised Tamil novel ‘Velpari’ has crossed 100 instalments
Kavitha Muralidharan
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A reporter’s eye melds personal lives with the rhythms of the forest of Kaziranga in this novel
Suhasini Patni
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‘Defiance was a strong part of it’: Why Alan Hollinghurst began writing about gay life and history
Supriya Nair
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Author James Frey beats Haruki Murakami to win the 2018 Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Scroll Staff
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A young journalist tries to piece together the violence of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in this novel
Radhika Oberoi
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A woman in newly independent India struggles with her devadasi lineage in ‘The Undoing Dance’
Srividya Natarajan
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This anthology of poetry and short fiction attempts to unravel what dissent means in today’s times
Suneetha Balakrishnan
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‘Milk Teeth’ relives the romance of Bombay, but also exposes the hypocrisy of its people
Sushmita Sundaram
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How the popularity of veganism might change the language used in fiction
Shareena Z Hamzah, The Conversation
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‘The Women’s Courtyard’: This novel from the 1960s resounds with its feminism over fifty years later
Khadija Mastur
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‘Putting brownness against a brown background compelled me to dig deeper’: Writer Akil Kumarasamy
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘Milk Teeth’: A new novel dives into the exhilaration and inequality in 21st century Mumbai
Amrita Mahale