fiction
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‘Didi’: A 1915 novel about widowhood and polygamy deftly portrays the tragedies of womanhood
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘Brotherless Night’: A powerful novel about waiting and resisting during Sri Lanka’s civil war
Saloni Sharma
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Fiction: Sammi’s life is upturned when her husband is called to fight in the Second World War
Simrita Dhir
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This novel is a retelling of 16th-century Sufi mystic and poet Shah Hussain’s eccentric life
Sarbpreet Singh
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Children’s fiction: A girl dislikes her new ‘outsider’ classmate. Can music bring them together?
Nandita da Cunha
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‘Azadi’: In Chaman Nahal’s 1975 novel, the reality of the Partition dawns, and lives are destroyed
Chaman Nahal
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Women in Translation Month: Novels and short stories by women writers from ten Asian languages
Sayari Debnath
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‘Weasels in the Attic’: What if men felt as insecure as women about infertility and ageing?
Sayari Debnath
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‘The East Indian’: This novel about an Indian indentured labourer has more scale than depth
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Fiction: Kallu, a humble mongrel who roams the streets of Gorakhpur, has some stories to tell
Omair Ahmad
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Fiction: Lawyer Jay Singh never loses a case. Yet his father’s murder 20 years ago remains a mystery
Vish Dhamija
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Fiction: The pandemic makes four immigrant women in a Paris apartment complex become friends
Koel Puri Rinchet
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Fiction: A former activist and a genetic engineer must reveal a radical truth before it’s too late
Mansoor Khan
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Women in Translation Month: Works of fiction by women authors from ten Indian languages
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A woman encounters, endures, and overcomes adversities during the birth of modern Nepal
Badrinarayan Pradhan Anmole Prasad
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Fantasy fiction: Violet wants to live among books but her mother wants her to become a dragon rider
Rebecca Yarros
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Fiction: This retelling of the Ramayana is set in Mumbai during the riots of 1992-’93
Lindsay Pereira
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Fiction: Seven guardians must retrieve the scissor of justice with the guidance of a nine-year-old
Linthoi Chanu
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August reading: Recently published fiction that explore the ideas of home, belonging, and identity
Sayari Debnath
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‘History’s Angel’: Past and present collide to tell uncomfortable truths about Muslim lives in India
Sayari Debnath