fiction
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This novel set in Pakistan examines what blasphemy laws can do to a country and its people
Osman Haneef
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Short story: ‘The Finding’. (Or, a discovery that stunned a world reeling under a pandemic)
Arundhati Ghosh
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Why Vivek Shanbhag’s Kannada novel ‘Ondu Badi Kadalu’ must be translated into other languages
Gayathri Prabhu
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Found in translation: Joginder Paul’s satirical Urdu novel about corruption and greed
Joginder Paul
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Debesh Roy (1936-2020): The Bengali novelist who spent his writing life in search of a local form
Shamik Ghosh
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A groundbreaking feminist novel written in Manipuri is finally translated into English
Binodini
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A rediscovered classic Bengali novel finds its way to new readers through an English translation
Sunil Gangopadhyay
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Samit Basu’s new novel looks at how reality is shaped and what humans can do about it
Diyasree Chattopadhyay
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Opening lines: Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer winners ‘The Nickel Boys’ and ‘The Underground Railroad’
Colson Whitehead
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‘Shameless’: Finally, Taslima Nasreen writes a sequel to her explosive bestselling novel ‘Lajja’
Taslima Nasreen
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‘Memory Of Light’: This novel is a same-sex love story from 18th century India
Ruth Vanita
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Samit Basu’s new novel looks at normal life ten years in the future, after multiple-choice disasters
Samit Basu
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New to graphic novels? Start with these five classics that has had millions hooked over the decades
David Brauner, The Conversation
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Fiction: 30 days and nights in the lives of two lovers and a homeless family during a lockdown
Siddhartha Gigoo
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Read at home: Mohammed Hanif’s stunning debut was a mordant satire on a Pakistani dictator’s death
Hanif Mohammed
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Can dystopian fiction the ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ series shape real-world political attitudes
Calvert Jones, Aeon Celia Paris, Aeon
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In this novel three generations of doctors fight against deadly epidemics in Calcutta
Ashoke Mukhopadhyay
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Read at home: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s novel ‘Bhaunri’
Anukrti Upadhyay
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Read at home: A poignant scene between a father and a daughter in Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Read at home: Life and love under a lockdown in and around an Andaman prison during the British raj
Uzma Aslam Khan