hindi fiction
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Translated fiction: Gyan Chaturvedi’s novel about the free-market economy and excessive consumerism
Gyan Chaturvedi Punarvasu Joshi
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Translated fiction: A family grapples with the tension between its Jewish faith and Indian identity
Sheela Rohekar Madhu Singh
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Fiction: A traditional aristocratic Bengali family transitions into modernity after Independence
Kusum Khemani Mahanta Banibrata
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Shaldungari Ka Ghayal Sapna’, by Manoj Bhakt
Manoj Bhakt
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Mrityu Aur Hansi’, by Pradeep Awasthi
Pradeep Awasthi
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Agam Bahai Dariyav’, by Shivmurti
Shivmurti
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Qaid Bahar’, by Geeta Shri
Geeta Shri
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Peelee Chhatri Wali Ladki’, by Uday Prakash
Uday Prakash
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Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Kasari Masari’ by Manoj Rajan Tripathi
Manoj Rajan Tripathi
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Ajanta Deo’s Hindi novel ‘Kharij Log’ is an urgent quest to unravel what it means to belong
Arundhati Ghosh
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Fiction in translation: In the forests, a man looks for his sister, who left home to join Maoists
Manoj Rupda Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Gauri Datt’s 1870 book, often considered the first Hindi novel, gets its first English translation
Gauri Datt
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A new book of short stories follows small-town young Indian women trying to make it big in cities
Anu Singh Choudhary
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Mridula Garg translates ‘Chittacobra,’ her 1979 Hindi novel that was branded ‘obscene’ upon release
Mridula Garg
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‘Banaras Talkies’ in translation is an adroit recreation of a wickedly funny campus novel in Hindi
Mohini Gupta
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In ‘Shirt Ka Teesra Button’, author and actor Manav Kaul paints a picture of diffident boyhood
Neerad Pandharipande
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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