fiction
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September reading: Life in India over the years with seven recently published works of fiction
Sayari Debnath
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Durjoy Datta is back with a new romance novel – starring a single mother and her employee
Durjoy Datta
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‘Banaras Talkies’ in translation is an adroit recreation of a wickedly funny campus novel in Hindi
Mohini Gupta
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‘Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors’: This novel about a young couple’s sex scandal is an assured debut
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Last White Man’: Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel is a redemptive fable about race and identity
Rabeea Saleem
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In ‘After Sappho,’ iconic women in history claim the rights to their lives and queer identities
Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Mohsin Hamid’s new novel: What happens when a white man’s skin suddenly turns dark?
Mohsin Hamid
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‘Crimson Spring’ uses fiction to re-scrutinise the imperial ambitions behind Jallianwala Bagh
Shubhangi Tiwari
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A new novel explores how the digital world of games can offer intimacy that is elusive in real life
Gabrielle Zevin
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The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize: Three Indian-origin authors make it to the longlist
Scroll Staff
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‘Whispering Chinar’: These interlinked short stories go to the heart of male privilege and machismo
Chitra Ahanthem
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‘Shabari and Anita’: Read Manu Bhattathiri’s story from his latest book of short fiction
Manu Bhattathiri
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Why NoViolet Bulawayo’s new Booker Prize-longlisted novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, The Conversation
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Hermit or prince in disguise? This novel explores a historical mystery from Bengal through fiction
Aruna Chakravarti
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‘The Ghost’: Sehyr Mirza’s story from a new collection of short stories from India and Pakistan
Sehyr Mirza
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‘When Blackbirds Fly’ recounts the fight for Mizo independence amid horrors created by armed forces
Veewon Thokchom
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A young doctor’s contentious divorce makes her wonder if women can ever live truly independent lives
KR Meera
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‘Breaking Free’: Devdasis find feminist solidarity in history, memories, and secrets in this novel
Vaasanthi
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‘The Stepford Wives’: Why Ira Levin’s feminist horror novel is still relevant 50 years later
Michelle Arrow, The Conversation
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In ‘Shirt Ka Teesra Button’, author and actor Manav Kaul paints a picture of diffident boyhood
Neerad Pandharipande