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Fiction: A policeman goes to the hills of Arunachal amidst struggles between tradition and modernity
N Dilip Kumar
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Booker Prize review: The wretched of the earth in Charlotte Wood’s novel ‘Stone Yard Devotional’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Chennai apartment residents lead a happy life – until a developer threatens to take over
Hema Sukumar
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This novel is a retelling of 16th-century Sufi mystic and poet Shah Hussain’s eccentric life
Sarbpreet Singh
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Fiction: After many years in the US, Maneka returns to an India that is nothing like she remembers
Oindrila Mukherjee
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‘The Light at the End of the World’: An overcrowded novel that floods the reader’s senses
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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A family searches for its identity as their village becomes Pakistani, then Bangladeshi, from Indian
Rashmi Narzary
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Can Sharvay overcome the barriers imposed by caste and gender to study Sanskrit and philosophy?
Mansi
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Who is the man that elderly Miu talks about? Why does she remember him despite her happy marriage?
Sharmistha Gooptu
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This debut novel is a political bildungsroman about young people coming to grips with a new India
Devika Rege
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Fiction: Fuelled by anxiety and depression, a former prodigy succumbs to alcoholism
Sandeep Mathew
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This new novel imagines a world facing the terrifying consequences of single-minded devotion
Praveena Shivram
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‘Fear and Lovely’: Anjana Appachana’s novel treats mental illness with incisive humour and realism
Veeksha Vagmita
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Fiction: How did brothers Hakka and Bukka Raya establish the Vijayanagara empire?
Buchi Ramagopal
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‘Sojourn’: The deliberate exile in Amit Chaudhuri’s novel examines modern-day identity crisis
Lantz Fleming Miller
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Fiction: A small town is shocked to see a middle-aged couple dating. Will they survive the stares?
Mitra Phukan
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Read: Parini Shroff’s Women’s Prize for Fiction longlisted novel ‘The Bandit Queens’
Parini Shroff
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Fiction: The odyssey of an impoverished man at odds with India’s newly-independent status
Aman Singh Maharaj
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Anjana Appachana’s first novel in 20 years: A tender story of love, longing in a Delhi neighbourhood
Anjana Appachana
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Fiction: Chicago-based Nisar Chowdhury returns to Dhaka after 20 years, a city that’s a stranger now
Nadeem Zaman