Short stories
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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
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A new book brings 14 short stories of Bengali women authors from Bangladesh and India in translation
Tilottama Majumdar Subarna Banerjee
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From entrepreneurship chronicler Rashmi Bansal: A new book of (very) short stories
Rashmi Bansal
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Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi story is one of 50 in a new volume of (mostly) translated short fiction
Amrita Pritam Khushwant Singh
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A new anthology brings 30 short stories from the Punjabi language in translation
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar Paramjit Singh Ramana
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Fiction: What do you cook when your son invites an American friend home for lunch?
Nishanth Injam
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Fiction: Kallu, a humble mongrel who roams the streets of Gorakhpur, has some stories to tell
Omair Ahmad
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August reading: Recently published fiction that explore the ideas of home, belonging, and identity
Sayari Debnath
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Laxmibai Abhyankar’s short stories about regressive ritualism have been translated into English
Laxmibai Abhyankar Ranjana Kaul