fiction
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‘Can the desire to abandon one life and live another be dangerous?’ Madhuri Vijay on her debut novel
Urvashi Bahuguna
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A love triangle between an editor, a blogger and an author? This novel goes where publishers do not
Neharika Gupta
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Why is a former Mumbai police hero holed up in the Himalayas? Meet an all new fictional detective
Udayan Mukherjee
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Dystopia or utopia? Politics or aesthetics? What are the challenges of writing climate fiction?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘The protagonist’s identity of marginalised gay Muslim Afghan refugee is definitely mine’
Gokul S Prabhu
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These stories of love and longing in a Mumbai high-rise gently get to the heart of urban anxieties
Soumya Bhattacharya
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‘The Witcher’ books, coming to Netflix, tell their stories in ways seldom seen in fantasy fiction
Kaustav Sood
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Why contemporary fiction can no longer evade an ethical obligation to engage with the climate crisis
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Do John le Carré’s spy novels distort the real image of Britain’s secret intelligent service?
Christopher J Murphy, The Conversation
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Beneath the veneer of a crime novel, ‘You Beneath Your Skin’ is a study of problematic relationships
Rituparna Roy
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An outspoken young woman in a feisty job interview sets the tone in Durjoy Datta’s new novel
Durjoy Datta
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What fictional superheroes can tell us about devotion and why we believe in gods
Thomas Swan and Jamin Halberstadt, The Conversation
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‘Being Gandhi’: This YA novel examines what it means to be Gandhian in modern and contemporary India
Paro Anand
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The near-forgotten ‘Demon of Cawnpore’ revealed Jules Verne’s reading of India and its conflicts
Revanth Ukkalam
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For the first time in recent years, a novel set in Afghanistan talks about intimacy, not just war
Suhasini Patni
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This not-romance between a daughter and her mother is a sensitive study in relationships
Esha Datanwala
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Why we must read ‘The Testaments’ for hope whenever there is an authoritative regime
Saloni Sharma
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In this novel a Kerala village institutes a deity who only wants to ride motorcycles
Murali K Menon
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This novel shows us what can happen when racism and violence collide with relationships
Antara Datta
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‘Repentance’: Read this short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay on his 125th birth anniversary
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay