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Shobhaa Dé’s ‘Srilaaji’ negotiates men, in-laws, business partners and other women in a racy novel
Shobhaa Dé
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This memoir recounts a string of mental illnesses in physical form, brought on by childhood abuse
Manjiri Indurkar
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‘The Discomfort of Evening’: What readers need to know about the Booker International Prize winner
Nawaid Anjum
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‘Piranesi’: The author of the cult novel ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’ returns 16 years later
Susanna Clarke
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Poets and novelists have been writing about life under Covid-19 for more than a century
Rachel Hadas, The Conversation
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How complicit is the employee of a corporation that follows unethical practices, asks this novel
Harsimran Gill
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This novel is set in a Bengaluru school for high achievers, who include an India cricket captain
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
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‘The Lying Life of Adults’: What to expect from Elena Ferrante’s new novel coming this September
Devanshi Khetarpal
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‘Kintsugi’: The Japanese art of repair with gold is applied to life and love in this novel
Anukrti Upadhyay
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In this novel: What happens when a boy from a good family defies his father to go to America?
Usha KR
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‘A Suitable Boy’: Meet the characters in Vikram Seth’s novel whom you will see on the show
Devapriya Roy
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How ‘A Burning’ author Megha Majumdar found inspiration in TV shows (among other things)
Devarsi Ghosh
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How the first English novels by Parsis were written in the backdrop of the plague and politics
Murali Ranganathan
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‘Swamiji’: In a mining town, a boy wants to grow taller through yoga. Can the yogi help him?
Rohit Manchanda
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‘A Burning’: An extraordinary debut novel explores justice and ambition in an unequal land
Harsimran Gill
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Identity, class-struggle and diversity meet romance in Tanaz Bhathena’s lush fantasy novel
Tanaz Bhathena
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Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ shows us how to successfully bring an unadaptable book to the screen
Ankita Chawla
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A groundbreaking feminist novel written in Manipuri is finally translated into English
Binodini
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Samit Basu’s new novel looks at normal life ten years in the future, after multiple-choice disasters
Samit Basu
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Read at home: Mohammed Hanif’s stunning debut was a mordant satire on a Pakistani dictator’s death
Hanif Mohammed