book review
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‘Hot Water’: Bhavika Govil’s debut novel movingly constructs a child’s fragile yet resilient world
Sayari Debnath
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‘Stroke of Death’: Murder mystery set in colonial Bengal shines in its portrayal of women’s lives
Sneha Pathak
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‘The Tiger’s Share’: In Keshava Guha’s second novel, a family man does the unthinkable
Diya Isha
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‘Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper’: A thrilling account of a persistent voice of dissent in India
Aakriti Mandhwani
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‘Shattered’: British-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi’s memoir is a testament to exemplary courage
Saurabh Sharma
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‘True Story of a Writer, A Philosopher and a Shape-shifter’: Truth is contentious in a ‘true story’
Arifa Banu
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‘These Tongues that Grow Roots’: Poetic stories on memory and quiet resonances of human experience
Kamalakar Bhat
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‘Sita in Exile’: A novel about gender expectations of women in the Ramayana (and the modern world)
Gemini Wahhaj
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‘The Comeback’: Annie Zaidi’s short and sweet novel about second chances
Sayari Debnath
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‘Mouth’: A collection of speculative short fiction that breaks the binary of human and the other
Saloni Sharma
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‘Changing, Unchanging’: Anju Makhija’s poetry is a quest for the restful
Neera Kashyap
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‘Lucy and the Djinn’: A djinn story based in Kerala could use a stronger dose of fantasy
Rahul Vishnoi
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‘Broken Mirror’: Conversations with Bengal’s public intellectuals shine a light on their inner lives
Sumanyu Satpathy
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‘Life on Mars’: Namita Gokhale writes of the many images of love and heartbreak in new short stories
Sayari Debnath
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‘I Am on the Hit List’: A lament for Gauri Lankesh, and a country that lost its way
Amrita Dutta
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‘Deviants’: A life-affirming, heartbreaking intergenerational novel about queer life in India
Sharmistha Jha
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‘Unknown City’: Amitabha Bagchi is back with a bang with Arindam Chatterjee from ‘Above Average’
Debasmita Bhowmik
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‘Notes on Nothing’ by Anonymous: In hot pursuit of nothing (and nobody much)
Tansy Troy
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‘You’: M Mukundan’s new novel weaves the tale of an unbidden beginning and determined departure
Suchismita Ghosh
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‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
Swati Rai