Short Stories
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‘Mithun Number Two’: Jayant Kaikini’s stories present the impossible dream – and reality – of Mumbai
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Will Ashima reunite with her long-lost daughter, whom she was forced to give away at birth?
Bulbul Sharma
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This new anthology is a collection of 21 short stories about Bombay, Mumbai, and its people
Mohan Rakesh Jerry Pinto
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In translation: Jayant Kaikini’s new book of short stories is set in Mumbai, India’s Maximum City
Jayant Kaikini Tejaswini Niranjana
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‘Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times’ engages with critical issues and offers no easy solutions
Saloni Sharma
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‘A new imagination of social justice is emerging in modern Malayali fiction’: Translator J Devika
Diya Isha
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A new book brings short stories by the Tamil writer Imayam to readers in English translation
Imayam Prabha Sridevan
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A new book of Urdu short stories in translation reveals contemporary Kolkata in unexpected ways
Mahmoud Yasien Afif Shams Siddiqi
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‘Welcome to Paradise’: Twinkle Khanna, besides being Bollywood royalty, is a writer on her own merit
Sayari Debnath
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From Twinkle Khanna’s new book: An elderly woman emails the CJI for a ‘nice cut-off’ age to die
Twinkle Khanna
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‘Our Strangers’: Lydia Davis’s new stories address contradictions and absurdities of postmodern life
Tamlyn Avery, The Conversation
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This anthology brings a selection of Malayalam short stories over the decades in English translation
Asokan Charuvil AJ Thomas
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December fiction reads: Six recently published books to end the year with
Sayari Debnath
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‘This is Salvaged’: Decay and preservation take centrestage in Vauhini Vara’s new short stories
Sayari Debnath
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‘High Water’: Read Ruskin Bond’s new story from his book of short stories about love and friendship
Ruskin Bond
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Fiction: Tales about gambles, betrayals, and plots of fierce and ferocious rulers of ancient India
SV Iyer
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‘For Now, It Is Night’: Kashmiri writer Hari Krishna Kaul’s stories get a new life in translation
Niyati Bhat
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‘Roman Stories’: In Jhumpa Lahiri’s book of short stories, Rome lies beyond the fabled la dolce vita
Sayari Debnath
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Short fiction: The unusual friendship between Aziz, who is blind, and Rukmini, who is deaf
Catherine Ann Jones
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‘Feeling Kerala’: These Malayalam stories curated-translated by J Devika redefine literary Kerala
Diya Isha