fiction
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Meet Subin Bhattarai, the bestseller-writer who’s setting book sales on fire in Nepal
Kanishka Gupta
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A reader’s guide to the five novels shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker out of 50 past winners
Urvashi Bahuguna
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How many possible lives does a woman give up? Anuradha Roy’s new novel asks the vital question
Urvashi Bahuguna
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How to survive when everyone in the family wants you to have a baby
Zarreen Khan
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This debut collection of stories goes darkly beyond the margins of everyday reality
Shikhandin
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It’s not the best specimen of historical fiction, but this novel breaks (some) new ground in erotica
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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In ‘Warlight’, Michael Ondaatje writes mysteriously and lyrically of war, peeling the layers slowly
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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This novel reveals things about contemporary India that cannot be proved (or we prefer not to see)
Annie Zaidi
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Beauty pageants and civil war: Tumultuous history meets fiction in this novel set in Burma
Charmaine Craig
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Is a house the parents’ property or the (grown-up) children’s legacy? When families fight
Shuma Raha
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The Cider House Rules
Scroll Staff
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From Sidney Sheldon to online fan fiction, why erotica is so popular as a way to explore sexuality
Richa Kaul Padte
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To read this novel from 1940 is to read an elegy to love and longing in an older Delhi
Oindrila Mukherjee
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A boat ride with Tagore: Anuradha Roy’s new novel features an unexpected cameo
Anuradha Roy
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Tom Wolfe (1930 - 2018) was known for his unique journalism, but he also wrote four iconic novels
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Tabish Khair’s unsettling new novel asks what secrets Ahmed is keeping from his boss Anil Mehrotra
Tabish Khair
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Nikesh Shukla’s new novel captures the immigrant experience in the UK through three generations
Nikesh Shukla
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This novel about the Hindu god Kartikeya tries bravely to twist old myths into untold new stories
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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The residents of an old age home in Goa band together to solve a mysterious death in this novel
Bulbul Sharma
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An ancient Greek goddess faces (and solves) modern problems in this novel
Urvashi Bahuguna