short fiction
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Translated short fiction: Swadesh Deepak’s short story about a troubled mother-son relationship
Swadesh Deepak Sukant Deepak
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Fiction: There’s a song at the heart of every short story in this book
Preet Modi
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Short fiction: An Assamese folktale offers hope and relief in times of widespread crisis
Uddipana Goswami
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Short fiction: The death of a couple’s young son makes them re-evaluate their relationship with him
Anirban Bhattacharya
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Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India
Farrukh Dhondy
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‘Biopeculiar’: Speculative short stories about nature tell what is at stake to those who will listen
Shreyasi Sharma
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Short fiction from Assam: A young revolutionary meets his schoolteacher after many years
Klirni Terangpi
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Horror short fiction: A group of college students summons spirits to the mortal world
Deepta Roy Chakraverti
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Speculative short fiction: Grounded airships, storms, and a love that could have been
Gigi Ganguly
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize: Indian writers Ajay Patri, Bharath Kumar, Sanjana Thakur shortlisted
Scroll Staff
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By Paulo Coelho: A new book of parables on faith, self-reflection, and transformation
Paulo Coelho Margaret Jull Costa
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Translated short fiction: A woman plunges into panic and depression after reading the newspaper
Anjali Kajal Kavita Bhanot
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Short fiction: A 79-year-old widow is shocked by her desire to dress up like a bride on her birthday
Santanu Das
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Fiction: A middle-aged Nepali man comes to terms with his sexuality in an orthodox social system
Ranjan Adiga
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Translated fiction: A Bangladeshi writer explores body horror genre in a new book of short stories
Mojaffor Hossain Mohammad Shafiqul Islam