fiction
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Mystery fiction: A posh Himalayan spa for the global elite has a murderer let loose
Ram Murali
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Ek Tanashah Ki Premkatha’ by Gyan Chaturvedi
Gyan Chaturvedi
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Fiction: A long-dead woman’s voice echoes through the storeroom as she reminisces about her past
Radhika Oberoi
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Fiction: An architect is asked to build a powerful man’s mansion but secrets and dangers are lurking
Mushtaq Shiekh
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Fiction: The psychological dilemmas of a liberal man living in an orthodox Muslim society
Rahman Abbas Riyaz Latif
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Sunday book pick: The long hours of an endless night in ‘The Private Lives of Trees’
Sayari Debnath
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July fiction picks: A new novella by Anita Desai and five just-published books to read this month
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Remains of the Body’: What the fluidity of love, friendship, and liminality of desire can do
Rituparna Roy
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Fiction: Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged but years later, they’re still looking for happiness
Ammar Kalia
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Short fiction: A couple, slowly falling out of love, hopes for a baby to save their marriage
Aneeta Sundararaj
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Fiction: In the 1920s, young people in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Banaras are finding new ways to live
Ruth Vanita
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‘Mahmud And Ayaz’: An envelope-pushing novel that takes the past and the present head-on
Mahika Dhar
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‘My Beloved Life’ by Amitava Kumar: Truth, memories, and what we leave behind
Sayari Debnath
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In his new novel, Kynpham S Nongkynrih explores the nature of human existence and godly dispensation
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
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Fiction: A Muslim woman returns to her village to face disapproval after her Hindu husband’s death
Ismail Darbesh V Ramaswamy
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In André Aciman’s new novel, a group of friends visiting the Amalfi Coast encounter a mysterious man
André Aciman
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June global fiction: Six recently published novels with which to celebrate Pride Month
Scroll Staff
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Sunday book pick: A Jewish refugee in Bombay in Anita Desai’s novel ‘Baumgartner’s Bombay’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Parade’: Rachel Cusk’s new novel makes the familiar strange – and moves beyond womanhood
Jane Gleeson-White, The Conversation
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‘The Scent of Fallen Stars’: The prose shines with possibilities but the plot does not quite sparkle
Saloni Sharma