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Salma’s novel presents the lives of women in a Muslim village in Tamil Nadu dreaming of freedom
Salma
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Fiction can tell the real truth about mothers and daughters – and what lies between them
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘The Masks Before The Pandemic’: Manu Bhattathari’s short story peels off layers of inscrutability
Manu Bhattathiri
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UR Ananthamurthy’s seminal political novel ‘Avasthe’ is out in English translation at the right time
UR Ananthamurthy
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‘Lady Susan’: Novelist Shashi Deshpande on Jane Austen’s novel of the femme fatale (and her oeuvre)
Shashi Deshpande
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John le Carré (1931-2020): The former agent who leaves us a literary legacy of spies
Siddhartha Sarma
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Moni Mohsin’s new novel is another wicked satire, this time on Pakistan’s political figures
Moni Mohsin
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In these stories, Salma lifts the veil on the realities of being a woman in patriarchal societies
Salma
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‘The Virus’: Is this short story actually a work of fiction in pandemic-struck India?
Sirsho Bandopadhyay
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‘Earthlings’: This novel by the author of ‘Convenience Store Woman’ will make you very uneasy
Suhasini Patni
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‘The Lying Life of Adults’: Why we can’t stop reading a novel featuring an unlikeable adolescent
Vighnesh Hampapura
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A novel about Maradona from Bengal, home to millions of his fans, imagines his life off the field
Kamal Chakraborty
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A novel about Maradona from Bengal, home to millions of his fans, imagines his life off the field
Kamal Chakraborty
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In this novel, a young Khasi woman comes of age in the politically charged city of Shillong
Daribha Lyndem
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‘We have not comprehended the real scars left by the lockdown’: Author Udayan Mukherjee
Sandip Roy
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Are we in control? Or does something control us? Kunwar Narain’s stories ask this critical question
Sucharita Dutta-Asane
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‘Migrants’: This short story speaks for many of those forced to walk back home during the lockdown
Sivasankari
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In this novel Stephen Alter rewrites the tale of Mowgli and ‘Jungle Book’ in a new time and place
Stephen Alter
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‘Suralakshmi Villa’: A world in which women stand up to patriarchy and abuse – and win
Namita Sethi
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‘Cabin No 1130-A’: Manoj Kumar Panda’s short story set in a hospital during the pandemic
Manoj Kumar Panda