short stories
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Translated fiction: Why does Ranjan look on uncomplainingly as his lover goes out with a colleague?
Sandipan Chattopadhyay Arunava Sinha
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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 by Bulbul Sharma: A mother takes her children to birdwatch in the mountains
Bulbul Sharma
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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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‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes
Shibani Phukan
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Translated short fiction: Quick journeys from mundane situations to the darkness within people
Ari Gautier Roopam Singh
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Fiction: A zamindar’s pet dogs have been friends all their lives, till cruel fate separates them
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi Asima Ranjan Parhi
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Short fiction: A couple, slowly falling out of love, hopes for a baby to save their marriage
Aneeta Sundararaj
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Short fiction from Assam: A young revolutionary meets his schoolteacher after many years
Klirni Terangpi
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Sanjana Thakur from Mumbai is the Asia winner of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Scroll Staff
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‘The Meat Market’: These stories take an ice-cold plunge into clammy depths of human behaviour
Saloni Sharma
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
Mashiul Alam Shabnam Nadiya
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‘Instruments of Torture’: These stories show us what we do in the shadows
Sayari Debnath
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‘Speaking Sandals’: Stories about sociological realities of ‘untouchable’ Madigas of Andhra Pradesh
Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
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Short fiction: Riddled with debt, a farmer urges the PM to change the formula for compound interest
Chandan Pandey Sayari Debnath
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‘Ma is Scared’: Anjali Kajal’s short stories step into the lives of ordinary women in northern India
Areeb Ahmad
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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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‘Bear With Me, Amma’: For writer MT Vasudevan, fiction is a blend of reality and imagination
Sonal Dugar