Short stories
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Translated short fiction: A peculiar fever grips Amma during the cotton harvesting season
Senthil Jagannathan Anjana Shekar
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‘Not a Day for Outings’: A winner of the Book Review Literary Trust Short Story Contest
Armaan
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‘Missing Years’: Flash fiction by writer Iffat Nawaz
Iffat Nawaz
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For children: How will Rajat get one hundred rupees for the boatman to take him across the river?
Poonam Desai
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Classic horror stories from Bengal: Neela and her father see a ghost in the dead of the night
Manik Bandyopadhyay Arundhati Nath
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Short story: A lonely crow at night could be a dear departed friend
Dhruba Hazarika
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Short fiction from Kashmir: A middle-aged man struggles to locate his lover’s grave
Zahid Rafiq
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Translated short stories: Will the bridal party find a car in time to go to the bridegroom’s house?
Arupa Patangia Kalita Mitra Phukan
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Science fiction: A celestial journey and a miraculous encounter in a Tamil solarpunkfuture
Hameedha Khan
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New short stories by Namita Gokhale: A vacation to the mountains reacquaints a woman with her life
Namita Gokhale
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A new book brings stories of Drukpa Kunley (1455-1529), or the beloved ‘divine madman’ of Bhutan
Needrup Zangpo
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Translated short fiction: A librarian gets trapped inside a dictionary. Will he be able to get out?
Unni R J Devika
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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