Fiction
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Assymetry
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In this contemporary novel, Tulsidas’s Ramayana is a leitmotif
Amitabha Bagchi
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This debut novel captures family life in Karachi as well as Pakistan’s most tumultuous decade
Urvashi Bahuguna
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How did the slave Aesop write his timeless fables? A fabulist travels to the past to find out
Suniti Namjoshi
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Indian writer Sagnik Datta wins regional award for Asia in 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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Sex, drugs and Freddie Mercury: A new novel goes beyond the stereotypes of life in urban Pakistan
Nadia Akbar
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A mighty kingdom wages war on nomadic forest dwellers in this novel set in 120 CE
Usha Alexander
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‘I didn’t want the tragedy to arrive as a kind of what-will-happen-next page-turner’: Anuradha Roy
Sana Goyal
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Hundreds of schoolchildren were killed in the Soweto uprising in 1976. A YA novel retells the story
Arushi Raina
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Ulysses
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A Kashmiri rebel lingers in the home of the policeman who killed him in this unsettling short story
Feroz Rather
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Amish Tripathi’s new novel ‘Suheldev And The Battle of Bahraich’ releasing on July 16
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A scary novel without ghosts in it: Jhumpa Lahiri’s translation of Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’
Sayali Palekar
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Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain
Annie Zaidi
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A painter struggles to adapt to a stifling marriage and a repressive regime in this Pakistani novel
Sadia Abbas
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A new novel based on the life of singer Janki Bai retells the story of Allahabad’s ‘Chhappan Churi’
Neelam Saran Gour
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Meet Subin Bhattarai, the bestseller-writer who’s setting book sales on fire in Nepal
Kanishka Gupta
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A reader’s guide to the five novels shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker out of 50 past winners
Urvashi Bahuguna
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How many possible lives does a woman give up? Anuradha Roy’s new novel asks the vital question
Urvashi Bahuguna
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How to survive when everyone in the family wants you to have a baby
Zarreen Khan