fiction
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In this old novel by KA Abbas, the hero grapples with colonial rule and the need for a revolution
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
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Fiction: Waleed trades a life of petty crime for something bigger by joining Karachi’s ruling party
Hamza Jalil Albasit
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Fiction by Upamanyu Chatterjee: A hungry man, deranged by the smell of meat, kills a family of six
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Fiction: A social media influencer ends up on a dangerous path but finds an unlikely saviour
Divyansh Mundra
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Fiction: A retired man is forced to return to work after builders foil his attempts to buy a house
MR Dattathri
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‘The Book of Disappearance’: The dangerous ease with which colonial dispossession can become routine
Neeraja Srinivasan
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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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Fiction excerpt: From the 2025 edition of Sunetra Gupta’s 1992 classic ‘Memories of Rain’
Sunetra Gupta
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Fiction: Draupadi witnesses a grotesque act. Should she inform the police or protect her peace?
Gourahari Das Manoranjan Mishra
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‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule
Attaul Munim Zahid
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Fiction: An incident at the swimming pool leaves young Mira and Ashu shaken, and their mother angry
Bhavika Govil
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Crime fiction: Inspector Kumar knows it is not an accident when a young woman falls to her death
Rudraneil Sengupta
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April fiction: Six newly published novels and short story collections about contemporary Indian life
Scroll Staff
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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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Reader’s guide: The opening lines of the six novels on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist
Scroll Staff
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Keshava Guha’s new novel: Tara and Lila challenge patriarchal Delhi with their ambitions
Keshava Guha
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Fiction: Kayo is a member of an exclusive club in Tokyo, but it won’t be easy to continue
Radhika Jha
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Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
Amarjit Sidhu
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Fiction: Layla’s life in a small liberal arts college is about to change when she discovers a body
Faiqa Mansab