fiction
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Moustache: This magical, playful novel features people made not of flesh and blood, but of stories
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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‘That was creepy!’ Ten-year-old Bhrigu and his father run into a mysterious old man and a crow
Soumitra Ranade
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Udayan Mukherjee’s new book is a collection of short stories set in the time of the pandemic
Udayan Mukherjee
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‘Piranesi’: Susanna Clarke’s long-awaited second novel is worth the long wait. And it includes magic
Shreya Ila Anasuya
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‘Plague Ki Chudail’: This bittersweet short story from 1902 explores grief, fear and mortality
Master Bhagwan Das
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Comradeship in love distinguishes this novel of rebuilding refugee lives after the Bengal Partition
Rituparna Roy
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Economists have a lot more in common with literature, especially novels, than hard science
Carolin Benack, The Conversation
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What are the ethics of thievery? VJ James’s ‘Chorashastra’ is a wicked study in irony and symbolism
Varsha Ramachandran
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‘These, Our Bodies, Possessed By Light’: Women are in love, with their relationships with themselves
Suhasini Patni
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‘The Shadow King’: The Booker shortlisted novel choreographs women’s footprints on the battlefield
Aditi Sriram
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Chetan Bhagat’s new novel makes love a red herring in a case of murder (and bromance)
Chetan Bhagat
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‘The Dance of the Masks’: A man lives in isolation, oblivious of the pandemic. Then he goes out
VH Nishad
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Is the pandemic ensuring that the future of speculative fiction lies in today’s reality?
Tashan Mehta
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This debut novel reminds us how much of literature is about love troubled by political conflict
Karuna Ezara Parikh
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‘The Silence of the Hyena’: Syed Muhammad Ashraf’s stories are animal fiction with a big difference
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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Intimacy without sex is the contraband service that women of the resistance provide in this novel
Bina Shah
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‘Piranesi’: The author of the cult novel ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’ returns 16 years later
Susanna Clarke
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‘The Cock is the Culprit’. It offends everyone’s sentiment. A mob bays for its blood
Unni R
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‘Rumble in a Village’: How economist Jean Dreze’s life in a UP village was fictionalised for a novel
Jean Drèze
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How complicit is the employee of a corporation that follows unethical practices, asks this novel
Harsimran Gill