Short story
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‘I’m interested in the underdog more than I’m in the hero’: Indian-Canadian writer Deepa Rajagopalan
Nirmala Thomas
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Sunday book pick: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s only short story ‘Recitatif’
Sayari Debnath
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Translated short fiction: Read ‘Soil’ by Maithili language writer Shivshankar Srinivas
Shivshankar Srinivas Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Karmachari’, VP Kale reimagines what contentment for urban Indians looks like
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India
Farrukh Dhondy
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‘The First of the Odds’: A short story by novelist Anees Salim
Anees Salim
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‘Writers in Kerala are cultural icons’: Editor AJ Thomas on the legacy of the Malayalam short story
Diya Isha
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‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal
Maaz Bin Bilal
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Read: Ten flash fiction pieces by Joginder Paul in their first English translation
Joginder Paul
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‘The Issue’: Read Tanuj Solanki’s short fiction from a new anthology featuring young Indian writers
Tanuj Solanki
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Short story: ‘The Finding’. (Or, a discovery that stunned a world reeling under a pandemic)
Arundhati Ghosh
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‘The New Provincials’: A story from Sumana Roy’s new book of short fiction, ‘My Mother’s Lover’
Sumana Roy
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How do you live between two worlds, America and India? Anosh Irani’s short stories try to find out
Anosh Irani
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The Indian tendency to stretch time becomes a boon when aliens arrive in this science fiction story
Manjula Padmanabhan
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An eerie walk in the hills comes to an unexpected end in this short story by actor Manav Kaul
Manav Kaul
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Shame and displacement lead to an unexpected end in this short story from an all-women anthology
Reshma Ruia
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Bengaluru-based writer V Sanjay Kumar wins top spot in UK’s Bridport Prize short story competition
Scroll Staff
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‘A Nail on a Tamarind Tree’: This eerie short story explores a popular Indian belief about ghosts
K Madavane
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A woman with special abilities looks into the past of a submerged Kolkata in this short story
Vandana Singh
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A matter of belonging: A family in Assam is torn apart by poverty and insurgency in this short story
Indira Goswami