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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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‘Homosexual Intifada’: An anthology embodying the resilience of Palestinian queer communities
Tabish Khair
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‘Bandigoat’: This anthology of strange fiction bounces between the weird and the folkloric
Ananya Dasguta
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‘Voices in the Wind’: These Himalayan folktales remind us of the value of moderation and coexistence
Vyshnevi Divya
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‘Writing from the Solitary’: This anthology on loneliness articulates a feeling that most dread
Kamna Singh
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Fiction: Kannamal has lost weight from a lack of food, but her mother-in-law refuses to believe her
Janaki K Srilata
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‘The Greatest Stories from the Northeast Ever Told’: A fine showcase for emerging writers
Anannya Nath
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‘The Bare Bones Book of Humour’: An anthology of humour writing rewards big laughs
Abhik Ganguly
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A personal essay from a new book asks what freedom has meant over the decades for women in Kashmir
Indu Kilam
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Short fiction: The demolition of the Babri Masjid sends the journalists of a newspaper into a flurry
NS Madhavan
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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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‘The Hachette Book of Indian Crime Fiction’: A homage to tradition and a sharp turn away from it
Amritesh Mukherjee
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Goan bhaji-pão, samosa, alsande tonak: How a practising Jain discovered a ‘vegetarian Goa’
Rachana Patni
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‘Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?’: An important anthology that holds multiple identities in easy balance
Saloni Sharma
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From an anthology on loneliness: A couple waits out a violent night of blackout in silence
Mamta Kalia Pooja Sancheti
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‘I was transgressing a boundary’: What went on in a woman’s mind as she ‘loitered’ in Kalimpong
Anshu Chettri
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‘Unusual courage’: What to expect from a new anthology of short stories from North-East India
Jobeth Ann Warjri
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‘Lapbah: Volume One and Two’: A rare voyage across the cultures and languages of North-East India
Anannya Nath
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From the Bombay anthology: Snakes and trees jostle for space in Shubhangi Swarup’s story
Shubhangi Swarup
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Strange tales: A woman’s lover is abducted by a bogeyman riding atop a gigantic rooster
Rashmi Ruth Devadasan