fiction
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A family searches for its identity as their village becomes Pakistani, then Bangladeshi, from Indian
Rashmi Narzary
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Fiction: Will young Bharathi be able to get past the bullies and win the Kolam Kondattam Kontest?
Vibha Batra
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Fiction: A woman is murdered in a quiet hill town. The protagonist thinks she is the killer
Gayatri
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For young readers: When a teenager has to join the British Indian Army to fight Japanese invaders
Hannah Lalhlanpuii
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Can Sharvay overcome the barriers imposed by caste and gender to study Sanskrit and philosophy?
Mansi
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Fiction: 16-year-old Sanaz’s body is discovered in her father’s Udaipur house. How did she die?
Arefa Tehsin
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Fiction: A Sikh woman in Singapore finally comes out of her brother’s shadow to live her life
Nilanjana Sengupta
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For children: Can Kabir, Lila, and Kungfu Aunty save their playground and city from noxious trash?
Shweta Taneja
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Fiction: A retelling of the ‘Ramayana’ from the perspective of Ravana’s queen, Mandodari
Koral Dasgupta
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July fiction reads: From Indian stories set in the eighth century to a present-day fictional city
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Meera is abducted on a work visit to a factory. Who are her captors? What happens to her?
Navreet Sran
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In this 19th-century tragic love story, a young Parsi woman has to choose between money and love
Dadi Edulji Taraporewala Tulsi Vatsal and Aban Mukherji
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Who is the man that elderly Miu talks about? Why does she remember him despite her happy marriage?
Sharmistha Gooptu
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A 1997 Assamese novel about advertising and consumerist culture has been translated into English
Anuradha Sarma Pujari Aruni Kashyap
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‘Quarterlife’: An ambitious and elegant debut that takes on the Indian political landscape head-on
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer fiction in Bengali matter-of-factly topples the heteronormative order
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘Soft Animal’: A rare novel about womanhood and the unmaking of a marriage during the lockdown
Sayari Debnath
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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: Two teenagers find their illusions about Delhi being a model metropolis shattered
N Dilip Kumar
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Fiction: Fuelled by anxiety and depression, a former prodigy succumbs to alcoholism
Sandeep Mathew