‘True Story of a Writer, A Philosopher and a Shape-shifter’: Truth is contentious in a ‘true story’

Arifa Banu

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Fiction excerpt: From the 2025 edition of Sunetra Gupta’s 1992 classic ‘Memories of Rain’

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Fiction: Draupadi witnesses a grotesque act. Should she inform the police or protect her peace?

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‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule

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· Apr 12, 2025 · 07:30 am

Fiction: An incident at the swimming pool leaves young Mira and Ashu shaken, and their mother angry

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· Apr 11, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Crime fiction: Inspector Kumar knows it is not an accident when a young woman falls to her death

Rudraneil Sengupta

· Apr 09, 2025 · 05:30 pm

April fiction: Six newly published novels and short story collections about contemporary Indian life

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· Apr 06, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Sita in Exile’: A novel about gender expectations of women in the Ramayana (and the modern world)

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· Apr 05, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘The Comeback’: Annie Zaidi’s short and sweet novel about second chances

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 05, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Reader’s guide: The opening lines of the six novels on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist

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· Apr 04, 2025 · 06:30 pm

Keshava Guha’s new novel: Tara and Lila challenge patriarchal Delhi with their ambitions

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· Apr 04, 2025 · 01:30 pm

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· Apr 01, 2025 · 03:30 pm

Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten

Amarjit Sidhu

· Mar 28, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Layla’s life in a small liberal arts college is about to change when she discovers a body

Faiqa Mansab

· Mar 25, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: What does Naina do when her father calls her to wipe the blood off her mother’s dead body?

Arunima Tenzin Tara

· Mar 21, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Crime fiction: What was thought to be a suicide is actually a murder. Can Meenakshi find the killer?

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· Mar 18, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Sunday book pick: ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson is an utterly mad novel

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· Mar 16, 2025 · 01:30 pm

March global fiction: Six newly published novels, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s, for readers

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· Mar 16, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Unknown City’: Amitabha Bagchi is back with a bang with Arindam Chatterjee from ‘Above Average’

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· Mar 15, 2025 · 08:30 am

Fiction: Madhu is brutally murdered in his home on a regular evening, shattering the peace of a city

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· Mar 12, 2025 · 05:30 pm