Fiction
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September global fiction: Six new novels from around the world to add to your bookshelves
Scroll Staff
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Short fiction: An elderly Vir runs into a rebel who fought against the East India Company in India
Sunny Singh
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Fiction: Tara escapes a gilded prison and a loveless marriage, seeking a fresh start in Mumbai
Nelofar Currimbhoy
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Fiction: Sammy has a privileged life, yet the pandemic has ripped open all his past insecurities
Avtar Singh
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‘Death of a Gentleman’: A largely fun, tongue-in-cheek satire about Mumbai’s elite
Debasmita Bhowmik
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Sunday book pick: Namita Gokhale’s 1984 debut novel, ‘Paro’, is sassy, sexy, and savage
Sayari Debnath
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‘This Place of Mud and Bone’: A profound novel about erosion of friendships in the face of violence
Pranvi Khare
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Translated fiction: A boy sees a dragon slipping into his bedroom – an image he’ll never forget
Siddique Alam Jaideep Pandey
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‘What Kept You?’: A Muslim feminist’s debut novel rebels against the suffocation of safety
Eda Gunaydin, The Conversation
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A police officer’s murder is reinvestigated in Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s new novel
Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari
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‘Afternoon’: In Malayalam writer Sethu’s short story, an elderly woman awaits her son’s return
Sethu Ministhy S
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‘The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar’: Indra Das’s novel celebrates found family and friendship
Rahul Vishnoi
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September fiction: Six new Indian titles that blur the line between our real and imagined worlds
Scroll Staff
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Mythological fiction: Parashurama uncovers secrets of Mahavishnu’s legendary axe
Ranjith Radhakrishnan
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‘Shape of an Apostrophe’: Debut author Uttama Kirit Patel considers the centrality of motherhood
Shubhangi Tiwari
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‘Katabasis’: RF Kuang’s new novel is an exposé of institutions and students in all their manic glory
Pulari Meera Baskar
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Fiction: An underground revolutionary group plans a murderous conspiracy at Nalini’s Shimla hotel
Srishti Chaudhary
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Science fiction and fantasy: Kalki works for the British while planning to destroy the empire
Vaishnavi Patel
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Daisy Rockwell’s new novel: Alice’s ancestral home is crumbling, and a spectre is haunting her
Daisy Rockwell
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Fiction: A receptionist in a Dubai hospital receives a book written by someone else using her name
Sonia Rafeek Ministhy S