Novel
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2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner: Is ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’ Ruth Ozeki’s best?
Sayari Debnath
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‘Mai’: International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree’s first novel also talks of generations of women
Geetanjali Shree
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This Partition novel reminds all of India that communal violence can never be controlled
Nanak Singh
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‘Aranyak’: A new translation brings back Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s iconic Bengali novel
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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A series of murders and accidents runs through Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new literary thriller
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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‘The Middle Finger’: Saikat Majumdar’s new novel interrogates privilege in the world of teachers
Saloni Sharma
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‘The Shotgun Wedding’: This romantic comedy flowers in, of all places, a rural college in Bengal
Suchandra Roychowdhury
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Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’: A winding journey through three books in search of a destination
Richa Bhattarai
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A mother and a son have secrets from each other in this novel about Indian origin people in America
Neel Patel
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Today’s political reality of deep divisions explodes within a family in Kunal Basu’s new novel
Kunal Basu
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‘Twelfth Fail’: Bestselling Hindi novel about public services exams (and love) is now in English
Anurag Pathak
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An adolescent’s badminton dreams collide with communal violence in this novel
Saskya Jain
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After ‘Daura’: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s Rajasthan novel about water
Anukrti Upadhyay
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‘Lal Salaam’: Smriti Irani’s novel is based on the killing of 76 CRPF men by Maoists in Dantewada
Smriti Zubin Irani
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‘The Odd Book of Baby Names’: A haunting sense of loss runs beneath the bleak comedy of this novel
Saloni Sharma
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‘400 Days’: Despite its clichéd ingredients, Chetan Bhagat’s new novel is his most readable yet
Sahana Hegde
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Booker Prize: Damon Galgut’s ‘The Promise’ is a reminder of South Africa’s difficult journey
Daniel Conway, The Conversation
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‘Best Intentions’: Politics, fundamentalism, family, love, and society collide in this debut novel
Simran Dhir
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‘400 days’: Chetan Bhagat’s new novel targets Diwali sales with the formula of mystery meets romance
Chetan Bhagat
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Namita Gokhale’s new novel locates the Covid-19 crisis within the Indian joint family
Namita Gokhale