fiction
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This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends
Suhasini Patni
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Meet DCP Rita Ferreira, the fictional detective who stars amongst Mumbai’s top policemen
Vish Dhamija
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This novel begins on the night before the separation between the narrator and her husband
Silvia Arazi
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‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths
Daniel Cook, The Conversation
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First read: Death, love, and madness all lie at the heart of Cyrus Mistry’s new novel
Cyrus Mistry
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‘Babu Bangladesh’: A literary agent remembers the making of a debut novel – and its author’s death
Kanishka Gupta
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Here’s what’s special about Madhuri Vijay’s ‘The Far Field’, winner of the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize
Paromita Patranobish
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This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee (2001-’17) wrote these stories at 16. She would have been 18 when published
Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee
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Can a book be haunted? Read this story from a collection of intimate tales from forgotten places
Aruni Kashyap
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Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla’s strangely real world is back in this English translation of his fiction
Vinod Kumar Shukla
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When a god-fearing, vegetarian, middle-class businessman gets a huge but troubling opportunity
Parinda Joshi
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‘I was so ignorant, naïve, small-minded that I couldn’t have possibly written anything better.’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Want to know more about ‘late stage capitalism’? Read this satirical novel from Australia
Simon Ryan, The Conversation
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Refuge, reparation, return: What reading Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel ‘The Far Field’ brings to mind
Sayali Palekar
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Indian revolutionaries plan to ambush a train carrying the Kohinoor diamond in this novel
Rensil D’Silva
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This novel about a thrilling fight between two boxers in India is based on a real-life person
Timeri N Murari
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An inheritance and a 22-year-old college student: This novel is about the birth of a Mumbai bookshop
Rehana Munir
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What roles do a merman and the end of the world play in this novel in the form of an ancient fable?
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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This novel weaves together searing personal memories of the Partition and the anti-Sikh pogrom
Gokul S Prabhu