hindi fiction
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Slice-of-life novel set in corridors of a BHU hostel captures eccentricities of college life
Satya Vyas
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How TV scriptwriter Sanjeev Paliwal has revived Hindi crime fiction with ‘Naina’ and ‘Pishach’
Maneesha Taneja
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‘Alipura’: A delightful romp in the Hindi heartland turns into a grim narrative of powerlessness
Saloni Sharma
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‘Alipura’: The definitive novel of Bundelkhand, funny and tender, can now be read in English
Gyan Chaturvedi
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‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India
Chandan Pandey
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‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’: Classic Hindi novel set in girls’ college gets English translation
Usha Priyamvada
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A forest has fallen silent in grief in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s eerie new novel in translation
Vinod Kumar Shukla
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What happens to the family of a man arrested for murder? This Shrilal Shukla novel asks the question
Shrilal Shukla
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Are we in control? Or does something control us? Kunwar Narain’s stories ask this critical question
Sucharita Dutta-Asane
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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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In these calm stories of everyday life, Vinod Kumar Shukla elevates the small to the sublime
Sharmistha Mohanty
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The trauma of being forced to learn English is played out painfully in this small town classroom
Neelesh Raghuwanshi
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‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’: Krishna Sobti fictionalises her own encounter with the Partition
Krishna Sobti
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‘Relapse’: Like history, is love with the same person repeated first as tragedy and then as farce?
Suhasini Patni
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Manzoor Ahtesham’s Hindi novel on the alienated post-partition Muslim in India is playfully truthful
Manzoor Ahtesham
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‘I Don’t Have Wings’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on the works of Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra