Fiction
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This coming-of-age novel about friendship is set against the 1987 Khasi-Bengali clashes in Shillong
Nilanjan P Choudhury
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This debut collection of interconnected short stories is a web of responses to everyday violence
Akil Kumarasamy
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Anuradha Roy and Jairam Ramesh among shortlisted authors for The Hindu Literary Prize
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‘In Arab countries, you will remain a foreigner, but they want you as a paid slave’: Benyamin
Urvashi Bahuguna
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In a landscape of new literary awards, what can readers take away from the DSC Prize longlist?
Sana Goyal
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Anita Nair’s ‘Eating Wasps’ is a strangely calming reminder of the complex lives of women
Suhasini Patni
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The 1971 Dhaka University massacre forms the backdrop for this novel about life in violent times
Nadeem Zaman
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Arundhati Roy and Jeet Thayil on the longlist of the 2018 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
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‘The Salt Doll’: A new edition of a 1978 work brings us a novel that should not have been forgotten
Molly Daniels Ramanujan
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Kirsty Gunn’s new novel is a clever tale of unrequited love in these diminished times
Ipsita Chakravarty
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‘Red Birds’: Mohammed Hanif’s most sorrowful novel is swallowed up by its grief
Supriya Nair
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What was it like to be Andal? This novel imagines the life of the ninth century devotional poet
Sharanya Manivannan
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The JCB Prize for Literature shortlist: This is why each of the five novels deserves to win
Harsimran Gill
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Two translations and a debut novel on the shortlist of the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature
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This Commonwealth Prize winner’s new novel is more than a cross-border love story
Siddhartha Gigoo
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‘Increasingly, you can’t match the absurdist comedy going on around yourself’: Mohammed Hanif
Jai Arjun Singh
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In Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s debut novel, new tenants arrive at Paradise Towers
Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
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This unusual novel uses interviews, WhatsApp chats, emails and reports to piece together a thriller
Nikhil Pradhan
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A mother-son duo escape to Paris from financial ruin and scandal in Patrick deWitt’s new novel
Patrick deWitt
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Parismita Singh’s short stories question whether ‘Peace Has Come’ to North East India
Sayali Palekar