fiction
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Peelee Chhatri Wali Ladki’, by Uday Prakash
Uday Prakash
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Fiction: A couple tries to start over in a new home after their son’s death upends their marriage
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
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‘A Person is a Prayer’: A moving novel about the aches, regrets and longings each of us harbours
Divya Shankar
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Translated fiction: Kunjootty is struggling to write the stories of the natives of his village
VJ James Ministhy S
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Fiction: The streets descend into chaos, turning every person into both a victim and a perpetrator
Sanjay Bahadur
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Translated fiction: Bengali couple Sudeep and Kamalika raise their children in 1960s’ America
Bani Basu Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
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Fiction from Bangladesh: Kamal embarks on a boat journey to the floodplains until the war is over
Manzu Islam
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Fiction: An Indian man and Afghani woman fall in love in 1920s’ Kabul, but a tragic fate awaits them
Syed Mujtaba Ali Nazes Afroz
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Fiction: Esai stumbles across an ancient secret that threatens to dismantle her college to the bones
Megha Rao
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‘The Gentleman from Peru’: André Aciman’s novel mourns (or celebrates) lives spent in waiting
Sonal Dugar
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‘The Enclave’: Heavy-handed execution mars the intriguing intent of Rohit Manchanda’s new novel
Debasmita Bhowmik
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August fiction: A new Geetanjali Shree novel and five more recently published books for this month
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: The discovery of an unknown man in Pakistan’s Black Mountains causes an avalanche of chaos
Feryal Ali-Gauhar
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Fiction: Ambika thinks teaching is tough, until she meets the unreasonable mothers of her students
Zarreen Khan
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Fiction: A motley crew of strange characters come together in a magic-realist remapping of Calcutta
Nabarun Bhattacharya Rijula Das
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Fiction: Rose meets pop star Milo Jax at a party. The next morning, she can’t remember what happened
Olivia Petter
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Fiction: Professor Nurul Islam’s outspoken views earn the ire of Pakistani fundamentalist preachers
MG Vassanji
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Fiction: The dangerous Goa casinos where the famous and dreamers chase quick fortunes
Anurag Tripathi
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Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India
Farrukh Dhondy
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Fiction: Gul, Arth, Luni, Himmo live by the sea. One day, the water throws up a mysterious creature
Sonali Prasad