Short stories
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Short stories about Mumbai: A woman is outraged when she sees a stark-naked sadhu on Marine Drive
Murzban F Shroff
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Sunday book pick: Empathetic and nuanced stories of animal-human conflict in ‘The Mirror of Wonders’
Sayari Debnath
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Yeh Dil Hai Ki Chor Darwaza’, by Kinshuk Gupta
Kinshuk Gupta
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Translated short stories: An Indian pilot reminisces about her relationship with a Pakistani man
Joginder Paul Haris Qadeer
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Short fiction: An elderly woman celebrates a strange Christmas after a health scare
Bulbul Sharma
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‘Sugar, Smoke, Song’: Assamese writer Reema Rajbanshi addresses discrimination in India and US
Tina Borah, PubLab
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‘Nocturne Pondicherry’: In these translated short stories, night is an enabler and invader
Rahul Vishnoi
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‘The Menstrual Coupé’: These experimental stories about women’s lives and sexuality are a revelation
Rahul Singh
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Sunday book pick: The many reflections of womanhood in Danielle Pender’s ‘Watching Women and Girls’
Sayari Debnath
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Short fiction: Vibha is perplexed by the people and philosophy of the design firm she works at
Anukrti Upadhyay
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Translated fiction: Why does Ranjan look on uncomplainingly as his lover goes out with a colleague?
Sandipan Chattopadhyay Arunava Sinha
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Fiction: There’s a song at the heart of every short story in this book
Preet Modi
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Short fiction by Bulbul Sharma: A mother takes her children to birdwatch in the mountains
Bulbul Sharma
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Short fiction: An Assamese folktale offers hope and relief in times of widespread crisis
Uddipana Goswami
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Short fiction: The death of a couple’s young son makes them re-evaluate their relationship with him
Anirban Bhattacharya
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‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes
Shibani Phukan
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Translated short fiction: Quick journeys from mundane situations to the darkness within people
Ari Gautier Roopam Singh
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Fiction: A zamindar’s pet dogs have been friends all their lives, till cruel fate separates them
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi Asima Ranjan Parhi
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Short fiction: A couple, slowly falling out of love, hopes for a baby to save their marriage
Aneeta Sundararaj
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Short fiction from Assam: A young revolutionary meets his schoolteacher after many years
Klirni Terangpi