Fiction
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Fiction: Lucy’s infatuation with Susannah escalates, very quickly, to a devastating love
Chloe Michelle Howarth
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‘I heard that all of us living on the streets will be taken away’: A short story about a ‘stray’ dog
Hemali Sodhi
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August global fiction: Six novels from around the world to add to your bookshelf
Scroll Staff
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‘Silk Route’: Sachin Kundalkar returns with a story of disappearances 12 years after ‘Cobalt Blue’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction by Benyamin: Mariamma, a young nurse from Kerala, travels from her hometown across the world
Benyamin Anoop Prathapan
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Indian-origin writer Shastri Akella wins the 2025 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: Ponniyin Selvan has vanished after a devastating shipwreck off the coast of Lanka
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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Speculative fiction: A beleaguered Britain desperately seeks life-saving assistance from India
Alan Gemmell
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‘Animal Farm’ at 80: George Orwell’s novel remains his enduring commitment to socialist revolution
Glenn Burgess, The Conversation
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‘Water Days’: Sundar Sarukkai’s novel sensitively portrays the fractured histories of displacements
Devina Dutt
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‘The Hush of the Uncaring Sea’: Upamanyu Chatterjee’s novellas are rooted in both fact and fiction
Saloni Sharma
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Amrita Mahale’s new novel ‘Real Life’: Tara is missing. Mansi sets out to retrace her days
Amrita Mahale
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Fiction: A young boy is kidnapped just outside Colombo. There are no clues, no demands. What’s next?
Chhimi Tenduf-La
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The inaugural IGF Archer-Amish Award winner: An excerpt from ‘The Way Home’, by Shalini Mullick
Shalini Mullick
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Sunday book pick: In 2025 Booker Prize-longlisted ‘Universality’, everyone’s politics is for sale
Sayari Debnath
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August fiction: From speculative to literary fiction, six new books to look forward to this month
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: Jadu’s parents are killed in the violence between the East India Company and Bengal’s Nawab
Madhurima Vidyarthi
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Fantasy: Ru, a boy from nowhere, dreams of dragons. What is his connection to these divine beasts?
Indra Das
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Fiction: Nobo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds an infant abandoned at the station
Manoranjan Byapari Anchita Ghatak
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‘Gunboy’: A Bombay underworld novel that falls a little short of the depth it demands
Atharva Pandit