debut novel
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‘Secrets simmer, things get unhinged in the heat’: Bhavika Govil on her ‘summer’ novel, ‘Hot Water’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Urban wandering is central to my writing and how I live’: Debut novelist and editor Sayantan Ghosh
Abdullah Khan
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‘The feelings are more autobiographical than the setting’: Aria Aber on her novel ‘Good Girl’
Chaitanya Srivastava
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‘The Ex-Daughters of Tolstoy House’: How much blood must be spilled before the cycle is broken?
Suchismita Ghosh
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Fiction: What does Naina do when her father calls her to wipe the blood off her mother’s dead body?
Arunima Tenzin Tara
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Rupleena Bose’s debut novel ‘Summer of Then’: When the grass is brown on your side
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A woman moves between two men as their lives get entangled across a decade of upheaval
Rupleena Bose
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‘The Sea Elephants’: A young boy who is often made to feel alone finds his own skin in costumes
Sonal Dugar
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Fiction: A lawyer has fun with the law while helping clients through dire straits
Shishir Vayttaden
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Fiction: Three sisters vanish on February 14, 2013. Six years later a journalist revisits the case
Atharva Pandit
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‘Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments’: We all get by with a little help from our friends
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Chennai apartment residents lead a happy life – until a developer threatens to take over
Hema Sukumar
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This debut novel is a political bildungsroman about young people coming to grips with a new India
Devika Rege
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Fiction: A young Indian man confronts hard realities in his final moments as a murder victim in USA
Karan Madhok