Short stories
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This new anthology features Bengali writers who wrote about man-made and supernatural spectres
Dinesh Chandra Sen
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‘The Blue Women’: The women in Anukrti Upadhyay’s short stories are unusual and unforgettable
Diya Sengupta
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A new book brings together legendary Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha’s short stories in translation
Vijaydan Detha
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Anukrti Upadhyay’s new book of short stories is a vivid portrait of strange and enigmatic lives
Anukrti Upadhyay
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‘Hawa Hawa’: In Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, Calcutta is a festering wound that refuses to heal
Sayari Debnath
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Indian writers abroad: Chaitali Sen examines migration, power, longing in her new short stories
Chaitali Sen
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Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka is as witty and imaginative as ever in his new short stories
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Monkey’s Wound and Other Stories’: How women rebel against the cruel structures of patriarchy
Areeb Ahmad
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‘My Name is Not Malini’: Read Shehan Karunatilaka’s story from his new collection of short fiction
Shehan Karunatilaka
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‘Happy Stories, Mostly’ is in fact a collection of melancholy stories about people who do bad things
Sahana Hegde
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‘The Primeval Song’: This story is one of the 26 modern Telugu short stories in a new anthology
GR Maharshi
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These posthumous stories of Dhaka by the author of ‘Babu Bangladesh!’ remind us of his talent
Sayari Debnath
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Why ‘The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories’ deserves a space on every feminist and political bookshelf
Saloni Sharma
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In this book of short stories women do things they are not expected to in India
Sayantani Dasgupta
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Middle-class urban women confront critical moments in their lives in these short stories
Rituparna Roy
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Can a book be haunted? Read this story from a collection of intimate tales from forgotten places
Aruni Kashyap
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A retirement home for domestic workers, but who are they? One of the ‘Strange’ stories in a new book
Shreya Sen Handley
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A collection of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s short stories embodies his signature writing against the grain
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind
Karthik Shankar
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‘Waiting’: A short story collection shows us the inner lives of women but doesn’t ask new questions
Jenny Bhatt