literature
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In ‘Babu Bangladesh!’, South Asian literature gets a wildly imaginative novel that defies genres
Numair Atif Choudhury
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This novel proves that the omniscient narrator is making a comeback to contemporary fiction
Julienne van Loon, The Conversation
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‘Ugra’: The Hindi writer whose provocative, satirical works had made him more popular than Premchand
Saudamini Deo
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‘The obduracy of women’: Why J Devika translated the works of K Saraswathi Amma from Malayalam
J Devika
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Why readers will almost never encounter anything like these two ‘anti-novels’ by Subimal Misra
Sayali Palekar
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Reading this epic novel is an immersive way of learning the history of Tibet
Rohan Parikh
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‘Basanti’: A classic but experimental Odia novel from the 1920s is reinvented in English translation
Tyagraj Thakur
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‘Celestial Bodies’: The Man Booker International Prize winner helps highlight writings by Arab women
Shadya Radhi, The Conversation
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Man Booker International Prize: The winning novel tells the story of modern Oman through one family
Jokha Alharthi
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Watch: On his 85th birthday, Ruskin Bond recounts anecdotes on reading as a child
Scroll Staff
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Imagine the finest of Maria Popova’s ‘brain pickings’ in a single book. ‘Figuring’ is more than that
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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Why India’s policymakers should read Premchand this election season
Swasti Pachauri
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Dineshnandini: The writer who lost more from love and life than she gained from literature
Saudamini Deo
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The Notre Dame fire has created a new Victor Hugo moment for lovers of literature and history
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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A master Tamil storyteller turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychology in his short fiction
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Cosmopolitan Dreams’: A vital book charts Urdu’s journey from newsprint to novel
Asif Farrukhi
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Annie Ernaux: At 78, one of France’s great writers is finally wowing English language readers
Elise Hugueny-Léger, The Conversation
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80 years before Bram Stoker, it was a young English doctor who introduced us to the modern vampire
Robert Morrison, The Conversation
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‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’ needs no coherent plot – it is a memory of conflicted times
Soni Wadhwa
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Five books on work by French authors that you can read on your commute – to work
Amy Wigelsworth, The Conversation