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‘Tamil: The Best Stories of Our Times’: Tamil modernity, a field of tensions between past and future
Rhea Gangavkar
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‘Rahim says, those charred by love blaze, again and again’: The metaphors in Rahim’s couplets
Chandan Sinha
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Crime fiction: The line between culinary artistry and sinister manipulation blurs at this restaurant
Mohammad Nazim Uddin V Ramaswamy
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Valley of Words Book Awards announces its 2025 shortlists across eight categories
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Fiction: Nobo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds an infant abandoned at the station
Manoranjan Byapari Anchita Ghatak
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Translated dystopian fiction: A young woman registers her ancestry as she enters adulthood
Soham Guha Sarban Bandyopadhyay
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‘Tiger Lessons’: A compelling novel about the shared existence of humans and animals in the forests
Diya Sengupta
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‘The Mozhi Prize Anthology 1’: Short stories with wide appeal are grounded in Tamil cultural milieu
Divya Shankar
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Living without the magnifying glass: A reflection on Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel, ‘Zorba the Greek’
R Sivakumar
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‘A New World Romance’: Schism between mind and soul forms the crux of this modern meditation on love
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Fiction: Keeru leaves Pakistan, where he was hounded for his caste and accused of blasphemy
Fauzia Rafique Haider Shahbaz
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Translated fiction: Who was Sabari, the forest-dweller who became Rama’s ardent devotee?
Volga Purnima Tammireddy
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‘At his feet I pay homage, cupping my hands in reverence’: The Buddha as man, animal, and god
Sarah Shaw
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‘A powerful urge to be useful to other women’: What Ashrafunnisa Begum’s life revealed to CM Naim
Githa Hariharan
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From Mithila to the global stage: Writer Taranand Viyogi’s hope for Maithili literature’s evolution
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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Fiction: In a remote village in Bengal, the tribal Sahish community lives in neglect with its pigs
Saikat Rakshit Ahana Bhattacharjee
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Translated fiction: An anthology of short stories by Bengali Muslim writers
Abdul Jabbar Sarmistha Dutta Gupta Shambhobi Ghosh
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‘Seek knowledge here’: A conversation between Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist monk Nagasena
Maria Heim
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‘The Bitter Fruit Tree and Other Stories’: Disappearances mark the terrain of Konkani village life
Geetanjali Roy
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Valley of Words Book Awards announces its 2025 longlists across eight categories
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