fiction
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When a South African novel makes sense to Indian readers, because all families are complex
Zainab Priya Dala
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Anjum Hasan is back with what might be her favourite form of fiction: short stories
Anjum Hasan
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A timely novel about a false imprisonment shows the devastating impact of racial injustice in the US
Saudamini Jain
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Kannada writer Jayant Kaikini’s evocative stories are infused with the body and soul of Mumbai
Trisha Gupta
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‘I Don’t Have Wings’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on the works of Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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A finance expert writes a novel to reveal a warmer side with a nostalgic ode to childhood
V Raghunathan
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‘Terrorists are not evil, they are people who have done a terrible thing’: Crime writer Val McDermid
Chandrima Pal
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This short story collection about a group of friends from Karachi is a dizzying and haunting ride
Sana Goyal
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Want to read novels by women? Start with the 16 novels longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Can what we remember help us cope better with what we see around us? This novel asks that question
Jane Wallace
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Dance, desire and jealousy mingle in Koral Dasgupta’s Bharatnatyam-infused novel ‘Rasia’
Koral Dasgupta
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Ten years of Anuradha Roy’s ‘An Atlas of Impossible Longing’: What the writer and publisher remember
Anuradha Roy Christopher MacLehose
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‘Do not use most of your research’: How novelist Nayomi Munaweera ensures she doesn’t bore readers
Rheea Mukherjee
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Murders and mysteries, yes, but these five books are far from being your average crime novel
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘A Laughing Girl on the Back Seat of a Scooter’: A vintage story by a Pakistani writer
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
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When the Strand Book Stall played host to a fantasy romance between Suketu Mehta and a young author
Veena Venugopal
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This novel is the untold tragic history of Chinese settlers in Assam (and of love and separation)
Easterine Kire
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‘The thing about writing sex is that it is as complicated as humans are’: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Harsimran Gill
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Kambar’s ‘Karimayi’ is too simplistic a depiction of the old order versus the new in Karnataka
Nikhil Govind
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The fictional young men and women of Muzaffarnagar bring home the facts beyond the headlines
Neha Bhatt