Short stories
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‘Other Skies, Other Stories’: Sara Rai’s stories are born from astute understanding of the everyday
Manya Anveshi
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‘Songs Our Bodies Sing’: An uneven yet memorable collection of stories about lives on the margins
Ananya Kaushik
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New short fiction by Anita Nair: A social media star falls prey to cyber fraud. Who’ll believe her?
Anita Nair
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‘Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?’: An important anthology that holds multiple identities in easy balance
Saloni Sharma
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Translated short fiction: The everyday struggles and hopes of disadvantaged Bengali Muslims
Lutfor Rahaman Mursed Alam
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Short fiction: A ‘fallen’ woman and her dead baby get a seven-gun salute at their funerals
Ravi Shankar Etteth
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Short fiction: An immigrant mother teaches her daughter how to make perfect, round rotis
Tayyba Kanwal
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‘The Way Home’: Everyday tensions of social belonging and personal truth in Shanta Gokhale’s stories
Ipshita Mitra
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Translated short fiction: Abu Bakar wants to win Asma’s affection, but her heart lies elsewhere
Sadique Hossain Nandini Gupta
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Terrific Mother’, a woman’s search for self after accidentally killing a baby
Sayari Debnath
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Short fiction: An ancestral home – imagined as a sentient being – narrates its own abandonment
Beena Sugathan
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Short fiction: In this Khasi story, a man’s obstinate pursuit of her rattles a young woman
Desmond L Kharmawphlang Ellerine Diengdoh
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Translated short fiction: An elderly couple looks after each other with ulterior motives
Razia Sajjad Zaheer Saba Mahmood Bashir
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Short fiction: A father teaches his young son to shoot feral dogs, setting devastation into motion
Kanza Javed
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Short fiction: A couple gets to re-know each other in their tiny Mumbai room during a Covid lockdown
Shanta Gokhale
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Translated stories: A family of late risers gets a pleasant surprise when they wake up early one day
Mohammed Khadeer Babu DV Subhashri
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In ‘The Eleventh Hour’, Salman Rushdie writes like he’s running out of time
Jenni Ramone, The Conversation
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‘Unusual courage’: What to expect from a new anthology of short stories from North-East India
Jobeth Ann Warjri
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‘Lapbah: Volume One and Two’: A rare voyage across the cultures and languages of North-East India
Anannya Nath
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Short fiction by Nisha Susan: A young boy takes help from ChatGPT to write his homework
Nisha Susan