Fiction
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This tale of longing and infidelity in Lahore is not a straightforward social novel
Faiqa Mansab
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Orwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin: Who would win a dystopian fiction contest?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Scroll Staff
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‘Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel explains why fantasy must inhabit historical fiction
Michael Durrant, The Conversation
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Dear Mr Bond, here’s what your ‘Confessions of a Book Lover’ told me about writing (and you)
Sayali Palekar
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What happens when age takes ability out of desire? Hanif Kureishi’s new novel tells us
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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The Idiot
Scroll Staff
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This novel shows a writer reclaiming herself from a violent, abusive husband (it’s not a memoir)
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘I have written standing up in buses, on the fourth seat of a Mumbai local’: Jerry Pinto
Rohini Kejriwal
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Sadness is devastatingly beautiful in Anees Salim’s new novel (or is it his imagined life?)
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Could Jainism have swept Gujarat? A historical saga asks this question (and several others)
KM Munshi
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‘The Havelburg Djinn’: A Pakistani stand-up comic and writer’s short story
Sami Shah
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Arundhati Roy’s novel lays bare the horrors and hopes of our times. This is not holiday homework
Durba Chattaraj
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This novel reminds us we have chosen to ignore the darkness beneath the dazzle of modern India
Shireen Quadri
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One more Mumbai novel? No, perhaps ‘the’ novel of modern Mumbai
Sayali Palekar
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‘A Suitable Girl’ is coming. What was it like to read Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ 24 years ago?
Devapriya Roy
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When polar bears do a better job than people at explaining the human condition
Todd Shimoda
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This intriguing, edgy collection of stories could well have been called ‘Humans of Sri Lanka’
Shireen Quadri
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The future that ‘Leila’ presents is already here, and all of us may be responsible
Trisha Gupta
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Kiran Nagarkar’s explosive first novel was in Marathi. Now you can read it again
Kiran Nagarkar