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International Booker shortlist: ‘Taiwan Travelogue’ feels repetitive despite its innovative methods
Sayari Debnath
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This book records the Bhil tribes’ resistance movements against Rajputs, Marathas and the British
Subhash Chandra Kushwaha Naresh Nadeem
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Translated fiction: Aditi moves from Bangladesh to Kolkata. She’s haunted by memories of her sister
Abhijit Sen Madhura Bhattacharya
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‘I have a natural attachment to Urdu’: Punjabi poet Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi writes in his memoir
Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi 'Sahar' Kamna Prasad
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‘Closely Watched Trains’: The humour in Bohumil Hrabal’s 1965 novella is a response to ruination
Ravi Shankar Shukla
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International Booker shortlist: Wives cry tears of blood in ‘The Witch’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Last Song Before Home’: A deeply intimate novel that opens onto a panoramic view of India’s history
Dushyant
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Shipwrecked in a time loop: Solvej Balle’s ‘On the Calculation of Volume’ plays a long game
David McCooey, The Conversation
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Experimental fiction: A river hatches a conspiracy with a tree to transform human civilisation
Krishnopriyo Bhattacharya Arunava Sinha
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Fiction: When a family decides to relocate its ancestral gods, it signals the end of a way of life
DB Mokashi Shanta Gokhale
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‘Bearing Witness to the Age’: Poet Behçet Necatigil’s grounded vision of Turkish modernism
Sudeshna Chakravorty
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International Booker shortlist: Life after the revolution in ‘The Nights are Quiet in Tehran’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Vaadivaasal’: In the jallikattu arena, an emotional story of revenge, honour, and legacy
Pranvi Khare
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S Hareesh’s new novel: The kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor refuses to join India after independence
S Hareesh Jayasree Kalathil
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International Booker shortlist: Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘The Director’ novelises the art of propaganda
Sayari Debnath
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International fiction: Sato is a happy boy until his father decides he has to undergo a piety ritual
Eka Kurniawan Annie Tucker
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Short fiction: A young man worries about his mother while fantasising about a billboard model
Dinesh Shrinet Mayank Jain Parichha
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International Booker shortlist: The cost of living as a free woman in ‘She Who Remains’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A young schoolteacher arrives in the parched village of Bangarwadi to teach the children
Vyankatesh Madgulkar Shanta Gokhale
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This biography of Wajid Ali Shah depicts him as a dancer and a master of the performing arts
Kaukub Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza Talat Fatima