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A Polyamorous Tale

A Polyamorous Tale

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Nehru’s visit to Aligarh and a foiled assassination attempt: The stuff of Howard Hirt’s forgotten novel, The Heat of Winter

Nehru’s visit to Aligarh and a foiled assassination attempt: The stuff of Howard Hirt’s forgotten novel, The Heat of Winter

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The Perumal Murugan interview: ‘Periyar ignited my awareness of the insidious caste system’

The Perumal Murugan interview: ‘Periyar ignited my awareness of the insidious caste system’

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Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A manifesto for regret

Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A manifesto for regret

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‘The Ink Black Heart’: Robert Galbraith’s new-age locked room mystery

‘The Ink Black Heart’: Robert Galbraith’s new-age locked room mystery

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Circles

Circles

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Anjana Menon: ‘Onam in a Nightie is about the culture, values and community spirit of Keralites’

Anjana Menon: ‘Onam in a Nightie is about the culture, values and community spirit of Keralites’

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Priya Hajela: ‘Ladies’ Tailor is a story of rebuilding life in the tumultuous backdrop of Partition’

Priya Hajela: ‘Ladies’ Tailor is a story of rebuilding life in the tumultuous backdrop of Partition’

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An Imaginary Biography of Rivers

An Imaginary Biography of Rivers

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In The Mountains

In The Mountains

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Kunal Basu’s In An Ideal World: An Old Country Of Young People

Kunal Basu’s In An Ideal World: An Old Country Of Young People

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Simran Dhir: ‘In today’s Delhi, pragmatism is important to balance out idealism’

Simran Dhir: ‘In today’s Delhi, pragmatism is important to balance out idealism’

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Shivani Sibal: ‘The act of writing makes you confront yourself’

Shivani Sibal: ‘The act of writing makes you confront yourself’

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The Train to Varanasi

The Train to Varanasi

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The Fence

The Fence

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A Wait For Anger

A Wait For Anger

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Ari Gautier’s The Thinnai breaks new ground in Franco-Indian Dalit writing

Ari Gautier’s The Thinnai breaks new ground in Franco-Indian Dalit writing

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Krupa Ge on her debut novel, What We Know About Her, an inquiry into the society’s treatment of women

Krupa Ge on her debut novel, What We Know About Her, an inquiry into the society’s treatment of women

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Space Station Through My Window

Space Station Through My Window

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Sonal Kohli on her short stories about the quiet lives of ordinary people

Sonal Kohli on her short stories about the quiet lives of ordinary people

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Hope Came In A Small Blue Package

Hope Came In A Small Blue Package

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‘Literature not addressing issues like mob lynching at all’: Chandan Pandey, author of Legal Fiction

‘Literature not addressing issues like mob lynching at all’: Chandan Pandey, author of Legal Fiction

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J.K. Rowling’s The Christmas Pig: A Fantastic Fairytale That Will Melt Your Heart

J.K. Rowling’s The Christmas Pig: A Fantastic Fairytale That Will Melt Your Heart

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Fall From Grace

Fall From Grace

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Cold Flesh: A translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s  Thanda Ghosht by C. Christine Fair

Cold Flesh: A translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Thanda Ghosht by C. Christine Fair

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Velvet Was the Night: A noir thriller, set in 1970s Mexico City, captures the turbulent years of the Dirty War

Velvet Was the Night: A noir thriller, set in 1970s Mexico City, captures the turbulent years of the Dirty War

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The Pain Merchant: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction makes the strange seem familiar

The Pain Merchant: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction makes the strange seem familiar

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Carcass

Carcass

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Rohit Trilokekar’s The Perfect Outside: Unboxing Life into the Imperfect ‘Inside’

Rohit Trilokekar’s The Perfect Outside: Unboxing Life into the Imperfect ‘Inside’

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Bidaai

Bidaai

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Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, winner of Women’s Prize for Fiction, is a spellbinding tale about finding liberation in loneliness

Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, winner of Women’s Prize for Fiction, is a spellbinding tale about finding liberation in loneliness

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Anuradha Roy: ‘Novels start as ideas, images, moments of finding connections’

Anuradha Roy: ‘Novels start as ideas, images, moments of finding connections’

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Anindita Ghose: ‘I was interested in exploring how much of women’s identities are defined by the men in their lives’

Anindita Ghose: ‘I was interested in exploring how much of women’s identities are defined by the men in their lives’

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Mary Lawson’s Booker-longlisted novel, A Town Called Solace, is about the need to be loved and the desire to love

Mary Lawson’s Booker-longlisted novel, A Town Called Solace, is about the need to be loved and the desire to love

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Why Ismat Chughtai Remains Relevant As a Feminist Icon

Why Ismat Chughtai Remains Relevant As a Feminist Icon

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‘I’m the pariah of literature in India, thank God!’: CP Surendran on his new novel and the many-shaded rejections

‘I’m the pariah of literature in India, thank God!’: CP Surendran on his new novel and the many-shaded rejections

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What Would Celandrina Do?

What Would Celandrina Do?

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Annapurna Sweets

Annapurna Sweets

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The Portrait

The Portrait

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A Death Without Mourning

A Death Without Mourning

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Alka Joshi: My Hero’s (or Harrowing) Journey to Publication

Alka Joshi: My Hero’s (or Harrowing) Journey to Publication

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Riva Razdan, On Ownership: Where is India’s Katniss Everdeen?

Riva Razdan, On Ownership: Where is India’s Katniss Everdeen?

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Sahar Mustafah: ‘The yearning for stories that reflect my lived experiences informs my writing’

Sahar Mustafah: ‘The yearning for stories that reflect my lived experiences informs my writing’

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Two Short Stories by Manohar Shetty

Two Short Stories by Manohar Shetty

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Jane Borges: ‘Bombay Balchão is as much about people as it is about a place’

Jane Borges: ‘Bombay Balchão is as much about people as it is about a place’

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Why I Really Love Libraries

Why I Really Love Libraries

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Last Queen: The Captivating Story of Rani Jindan Kaur

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Last Queen: The Captivating Story of Rani Jindan Kaur

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When Scorpions Come to Call

When Scorpions Come to Call

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Recollection and Reconciliation in Brandon Taylor’s Real Life

Recollection and Reconciliation in Brandon Taylor’s Real Life

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Thievery and Blood

Thievery and Blood

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Mira Nair’s Adaptation of A Suitable Boy: A Tale of Missing Perspectives

Mira Nair’s Adaptation of A Suitable Boy: A Tale of Missing Perspectives

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A Trifling Matter

A Trifling Matter

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The First Date

The First Date

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The Schoolgirl’s Story

The Schoolgirl’s Story

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Slow Time

Slow Time

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Wartime CEO

Wartime CEO

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The Goddess Arrives

The Goddess Arrives

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Birth and death in the time of the pandemic: Emma Donoghue on her novel set during 1918 Spanish flu

Birth and death in the time of the pandemic: Emma Donoghue on her novel set during 1918 Spanish flu

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Do Indians have Tagore’s identity of being an Asian?

Do Indians have Tagore’s identity of being an Asian?

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‘Kashmir is Kafkaesque version of  Arabian Nights... So many stories of horror and pain to be told’

‘Kashmir is Kafkaesque version of Arabian Nights... So many stories of horror and pain to be told’

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Spool of Pink Thread

Spool of Pink Thread

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Mothballs of the Mind

Mothballs of the Mind

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Where Rainbows End

Where Rainbows End

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Strange Things That Happened Before My Mother’s Death and other stories

Strange Things That Happened Before My Mother’s Death and other stories

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Their Time is Up

Their Time is Up

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Odds and Ends: The Hawai Chappal

Odds and Ends: The Hawai Chappal

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Wrong Talk: A Triptych

Wrong Talk: A Triptych

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Long-Distance Relationship

Long-Distance Relationship

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The Tale of a Half-Widow

The Tale of a Half-Widow

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Odds and Ends: The Bucket and the Shower

Odds and Ends: The Bucket and the Shower

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Saikat Majumdar: Scent and Sensibility

Saikat Majumdar: Scent and Sensibility

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Carry It All

Carry It All

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Dreams

Dreams

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Lonesome

Lonesome

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These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light: An Excerpt

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light: An Excerpt

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‘Nepal Litfest fosters pluralities of thoughts’

‘Nepal Litfest fosters pluralities of thoughts’

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Mulk Raj Anand: Curator of Child’s Consciousness

Mulk Raj Anand: Curator of Child’s Consciousness

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A Murmur of Murder

A Murmur of Murder

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Sadia Abbas: Mapping Misogyny

Sadia Abbas: Mapping Misogyny

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Unni R: The Magic of Realistic Stories

Unni R: The Magic of Realistic Stories

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The Slowdown

The Slowdown

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Anthem

Anthem

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The Sorcerer’s Bride

The Sorcerer’s Bride

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Lucy Ellmann: Republic of Consciousness

Lucy Ellmann: Republic of Consciousness

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A Sailor’s Journey

A Sailor’s Journey

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Fine Company

Fine Company

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Sunanda, the Security Guard

Sunanda, the Security Guard

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Oh My God, Oh My God, I’m Your Biggest Fan

Oh My God, Oh My God, I’m Your Biggest Fan

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Two Images

Two Images

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Dive

Dive

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Love and Longing in Patna

Love and Longing in Patna

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Romance by Rickshaw

Romance by Rickshaw

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The Exception and The Rule: Notes from a Suicide

The Exception and The Rule: Notes from a Suicide

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Digory

Digory

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Rebecca Makkai: Art for Heart’s Sake

Rebecca Makkai: Art for Heart’s Sake

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The Magical World of Murakami

The Magical World of Murakami

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Kulsoom

Kulsoom

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Annual Anthology of Short Fiction: Call for Submissions

Annual Anthology of Short Fiction: Call for Submissions

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Sweet Wood

Sweet Wood

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Tammy’s Special Day

Tammy’s Special Day

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Why you must read South Asian literature

Why you must read South Asian literature

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Mehr: Love Across the Border

Mehr: Love Across the Border

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Payback

Payback

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Excerpt: The Painter of Bridges

Excerpt: The Painter of Bridges

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Cartoons: Adventures in Adjuncting & God and Satan

Cartoons: Adventures in Adjuncting & God and Satan

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The Man Who Was Consumed by His Wife

The Man Who Was Consumed by His Wife

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Margarita Moon: A Fabled Cocktail

Margarita Moon: A Fabled Cocktail

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Tengchi

Tengchi

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Scarcity

Scarcity

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On Writing: Discovering Virinara

On Writing: Discovering Virinara

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Rain in Summer

Rain in Summer

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Michael Ondaatje: Shards of Memory

Michael Ondaatje: Shards of Memory

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Perspectives

Perspectives

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As Neem trees fell…the delivery boy came up!

As Neem trees fell…the delivery boy came up!

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In the end, a novel is about controlling time: Sumana Roy

In the end, a novel is about controlling time: Sumana Roy

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The Pink Dog

The Pink Dog

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The universe is my playground: Veena Nagpal

The universe is my playground: Veena Nagpal

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The Village Magician

The Village Magician

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Mr and Mrs Inn

Mr and Mrs Inn

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Scent of Sousan and Yasaman

Scent of Sousan and Yasaman

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A funeral, and a belly of memories

A funeral, and a belly of memories

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Meeting Madhavan

Meeting Madhavan

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Preti Taneja: A Gaze at World’s Darkness

Preti Taneja: A Gaze at World’s Darkness

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I’m a visual writer: Karan Mahajan

I’m a visual writer: Karan Mahajan

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Demonetisation Tales: The Ghost Detective

Demonetisation Tales: The Ghost Detective

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Grippin

Grippin

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Solitary

Solitary

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The Life of a Woman

The Life of a Woman

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Upon the Hour of Return

Upon the Hour of Return

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Memory and forgetting

Memory and forgetting

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Doctor Ruth

Doctor Ruth

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Sea Fret

Sea Fret

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A Superior Man

A Superior Man

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The Tryst: An extract

The Tryst: An extract

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My Meandering Mobile

My Meandering Mobile

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 Mynah Hands, Flying Fingers

Mynah Hands, Flying Fingers

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Why Pakistan? A novel tries to find an answer

Why Pakistan? A novel tries to find an answer

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Gariahat Junction

Gariahat Junction

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Shazia Omar's Dark Diamond: A riotous ride on a time machine

Shazia Omar's Dark Diamond: A riotous ride on a time machine

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Creme de la crime: A thriller with a desi touch

Creme de la crime: A thriller with a desi touch

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The World’s Oldest

The World’s Oldest

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Tom Hanks' book of stories out in October

Tom Hanks' book of stories out in October

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World Poetry/Prose Portfolio: The Camphorwood Binder

World Poetry/Prose Portfolio: The Camphorwood Binder

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The Man Without Answers: Excerpts from a Ghost Novel

The Man Without Answers: Excerpts from a Ghost Novel

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I prefer writing to affect my relationship with life at large: Shahnaz Bashir

I prefer writing to affect my relationship with life at large: Shahnaz Bashir

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Art isn’t about truth at all, but without it we’d be lost: Anil Menon

Art isn’t about truth at all, but without it we’d be lost: Anil Menon

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The Enigmatic Case of a Metaphysical Love Story

The Enigmatic Case of a Metaphysical Love Story

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I often do have a sense of the beginning and the end: Anjali Joseph

I often do have a sense of the beginning and the end: Anjali Joseph

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Through a Glass Darkly: A conversation with Manjula Padmanabhan

Through a Glass Darkly: A conversation with Manjula Padmanabhan

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Kalkatta: An Extract

Kalkatta: An Extract

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 Injury

Injury

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Finger

Finger

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The lyrical expression of the ordinary attracts me: Anjum Hasan

The lyrical expression of the ordinary attracts me: Anjum Hasan

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Amit Chaudhuri: 'I see history as junk, and junk as somehow being historical'

Amit Chaudhuri: 'I see history as junk, and junk as somehow being historical'

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The Fishermen: An Extract

The Fishermen: An Extract

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A Little Life: An Extract

A Little Life: An Extract

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A Secret Life

A Secret Life

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The Sins of a Writer-Son

The Sins of a Writer-Son

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Ameen in Heaven

Ameen in Heaven

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The Self and the Other

The Self and the Other

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Portrait of Another Woman

Portrait of Another Woman

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36 Feet Towards Revolution

36 Feet Towards Revolution

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Chigozie Obioma: Transcribing the African literary consciousness

Chigozie Obioma: Transcribing the African literary consciousness

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Beautiful,  Strange, Hurt Lily

Beautiful, Strange, Hurt Lily

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem

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