Fiction
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A future where the US dollar is melting down deserves a better novel than Lionel Shriver’s new book
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘Mrs C Remembers’ investigates the politics of Indian families, where loss of memory becomes a tool
Simrin Sirur
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Can a start-up strategy sell a book more successfully than a big publisher can?
Kanishka Gupta
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First read: Why Shiva turned to writing fiction in his ancient temple in Madras
K Srilata
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First read: This passage shows why Neel Mukherjee’s ‘A State of Freedom’ takes a knife to your gut
Neel Mukherjee
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Why Mr Chopra of Gurgaon has an inferiority complex despite his wealth
Diksha Basu
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Finally, a breezy novel about a millennial who doesn’t take herself too seriously
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Gandharvi
Scroll Staff
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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