Malayalam
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Fiction: A policeman who was once feared as the god of death suspects retribution is at his door
Devadas VM Nandakumar K
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Eco fiction: Tipu is more at home in screens than in the natural landscapes his mother adores
Sonia Rafeek Ministhy S
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Fiction: A young Umaiba experiences excitement, fear, and joy as she prepares for adulthood
Fathi Salim J Devika
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‘August 17’ by S Hareesh: Few novels inhabit India’s unrealised future with such conviction
Suchismita Ghosh
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Fiction: Ashwini’s mind spirals as denial and loneliness take over when she’s diagnosed with cancer
Nirmala Thomas Radhika P Menon
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‘Weird, delightful, refreshing’: Anupama Raju on translating writer Paul Zacharia’s ‘imagination’
Anupama Raju
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Short fiction by Paul Zacharia: A zealous nephew vows to catch his aunt’s secret lover red-handed
Paul Zacharia
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S Hareesh’s new novel: The kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor refuses to join India after independence
S Hareesh Jayasree Kalathil
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Horror fiction: Why a poltergeist’s logic does not answer the troubled mind of humans
Shihabuddin Poyithumkadavu Venugopal Menon
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‘Silent Journeys’ by Benyamin: A tapestry of migration, memory, and the women who walked unseen
Suchismita Ghosh
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‘I describe myself as a smuggler, border-crosser across languages’: Translator J Devika
Saurabh Sharma
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Financial thriller: Mini Balachandran fights an aggressive takeover bid of her father’s company
KL Mohana Varma Ministhy S
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From the memoir: A corpse collector in Kerala buries those who have died an ‘unnatural death’
Vinu P Niyas Karem Ministhy S
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When Sanskrit and Malayalam came together: Manipravalam resists the exorcism of influence
Nirupama Menon Rao
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Remembering K Saraswathi Amma (1919-1975), who confronted misogyny in Malayalam literature
Sreekala Sivasankaran
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Translator’s notebook: Uncompromising integrity is essential when translating texts from the margins
Catherine Thankamma
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A new book brings a hidden lineage of Kerala’s theatre through stories of women actors and workers
Sajitha Madathil Jayasree Kalathil
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Translated fiction: Aditi is forced to stand up for herself when love and expectations are betrayed
Nimna Vijay Haritha CK
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Translated fiction: Lot, a foreigner, threads his life through shadows in infernal Sodom
Sarah Joseph Sangeetha Sreenivasan
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‘Once’: A novel that cherishes love, both given and received, holding it central to our existence
Divya Shankar