Short stories
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Horror fiction: Three friends meet the ghost of the emperor and his begum in Qutubpur
Hemendra Kumar Roy Barnali Saha
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Short fiction by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay: Who will conduct the prayers after Aparna leaves?
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay Anchita Ghatak
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Short fiction: A woman leaves her husband to live with a lion-tamer who is both man and woman
Anushka Jasraj
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‘The Unrepentant’: These Short stories looking at Malaysia’s past feel intimate, yet startlingly new
Rashmi Patel
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Short fiction by Paul Zacharia: A zealous nephew vows to catch his aunt’s secret lover red-handed
Paul Zacharia
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‘A Kind of Meat and Other Stories’: Short stories built from ordinary tremors that move lives
Diya Sengupta
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‘Gooday Nagar’: A city’s lifetime of experiences in slice-of-life and speculative short stories
Sayari Debnath
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Horror fiction: A young man will do anything to bring his dead grandmother back to life
Jay Alani Neil D'Silva
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Short fiction: A young woman experiences longing, shame, faith, and hunger when she takes a selfie
Pratyaksha
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Translated fiction: In Sunil Gagopadhyay’s short story, a man makes a deal with Death
Sunil Gangopadhyay Chitrita Banerji
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For children: In this Satyajit Ray short story, a fortune teller witnesses a son’s revenge
Satyajit Ray
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‘Colour My Grave Purple’: This short story collection compromises on neither politics nor aesthetics
Shibani Phukan
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Short fiction: A man’s search for his mother leads him to a well where he hears her voice
D Ravikumar V Ramakrishnan
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Short fiction: People wake up in a post-apocalyptic world to discover everything is made of cake
Maithreyi Karnoor
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Horror fiction: A dreadful night of riots haunts a father 22 years later
Aruna Chakravarti
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‘The Greatest Stories from the Northeast Ever Told’: A fine showcase for emerging writers
Anannya Nath
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‘That’s A Fire Ant Right There!’: An emotional archive of the common, rural Telugu Muslim lives
Rhea Gangavkar
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‘The Only City’: This evocative anthology is a window into the polymorphous megapolis of Bombay
Sharmistha Jha
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Short story: A Dalit couple united by a passion for political activism finds their marriage strained
Anita Bharti Nikhil Pandhi
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Short fiction: A young village healer has to find a way to cure painful boils on a man’s posterior
Shehnab Sahin