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How Joe Sacco evokes the unhealed wounds of Muzaffarnagar riots in The Once and Future Riot

How Joe Sacco evokes the unhealed wounds of Muzaffarnagar riots in The Once and Future Riot

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10 must-read books for young readers: Stories of friendship, magic, and adventure

10 must-read books for young readers: Stories of friendship, magic, and adventure

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Never Never Land review: In Namita Gokhale’s Novel, The Hills Are Alive

Never Never Land review: In Namita Gokhale’s Novel, The Hills Are Alive

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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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Amitava Kumar: ‘Good writing grows out of serious noticing’

Amitava Kumar: ‘Good writing grows out of serious noticing’

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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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How I ‘predicted’ the winner of 2022 Booker Prize

How I ‘predicted’ the winner of 2022 Booker Prize

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B. M. Zuhara’s The Dreams of a Mappila Girl: Empathy for a life once lived

B. M. Zuhara’s The Dreams of a Mappila Girl: Empathy for a life once lived

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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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Deepti Naval’s A Country Called Childhood: Misty Watercolour Memories

Deepti Naval’s A Country Called Childhood: Misty Watercolour Memories

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Book Excerpt: Creativity, Productivity and Dogs

Book Excerpt: Creativity, Productivity and Dogs

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Anees Salim: ‘Surrounded by people, we mimic normalcy. In private, we are all oddballs’

Anees Salim: ‘Surrounded by people, we mimic normalcy. In private, we are all oddballs’

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‘The Middle Finger’: A Radical Post-millennial Adaptation of An Epic Story

‘The Middle Finger’: A Radical Post-millennial Adaptation of An Epic Story

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The Poetry Issue 2022: Mother and Daughter and other poems

The Poetry Issue 2022: Mother and Daughter and other poems

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The Poetry Issue 2022: Cosmocolossus and other poems

The Poetry Issue 2022: Cosmocolossus and other poems

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2021, The Year That Was: How we realigned our goals with the new shape of things

2021, The Year That Was: How we realigned our goals with the new shape of things

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2021, The Year That Was: Trends, highlights and new strategies

2021, The Year That Was: Trends, highlights and new strategies

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2021, The Year That Was: How Tulika Books ramped up its online sales

2021, The Year That Was: How Tulika Books ramped up its online sales

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The Ananth Narayan Mahadevan interview: ‘Pure cinema in India struggles for survival’

The Ananth Narayan Mahadevan interview: ‘Pure cinema in India struggles for survival’

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The Gulammohammed Sheikh Interview: Portrait of An Artist

The Gulammohammed Sheikh Interview: Portrait of An Artist

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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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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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Disproportionate Shadow and other poems

Disproportionate Shadow and other poems

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Bevinda Collaço on why her book, I’m Old, I’m Wise & I Know My  Sh*t, is an essential and handy reckoner for both men and women

Bevinda Collaço on why her book, I’m Old, I’m Wise & I Know My Sh*t, is an essential and handy reckoner for both men and women

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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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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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Trisha Niyogi: Success, to Me, is the Ability to Dream

Trisha Niyogi: Success, to Me, is the Ability to Dream

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Devashish Makhija: ‘In my stories, I strive to hold up a mirror to ourselves’

Devashish Makhija: ‘In my stories, I strive to hold up a mirror to ourselves’

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Why I Really Love Libraries

Why I Really Love Libraries

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Priya Sarukkai Chabria: Bank (a lockdown poem) and other poems

Priya Sarukkai Chabria: Bank (a lockdown poem) and other poems

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Eight poems by Soumitra Chatterjee

Eight poems by Soumitra Chatterjee

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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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Annie Zaidi: ‘Language is deployed as a tool for furthering imbalances that serve elites’

Annie Zaidi: ‘Language is deployed as a tool for furthering imbalances that serve elites’

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Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: The Hollows of Grief

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: The Hollows of Grief

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Shokoofeh Azar: ‘I write magic realism on the basis  of facts. To me, a fact can be a dream or an emotion’

Shokoofeh Azar: ‘I write magic realism on the basis of facts. To me, a fact can be a dream or an emotion’

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Gabriela Cabezon Camara: ‘It’s important for us to be able to imagine other possible worlds’

Gabriela Cabezon Camara: ‘It’s important for us to be able to imagine other possible worlds’

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Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I am interested in exploring what a strange, distant country our past can be’

Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I am interested in exploring what a strange, distant country our past can be’

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Fernanda Melchor: ‘The crisis and desperation of Mexico found their way to Hurricane Season’

Fernanda Melchor: ‘The crisis and desperation of Mexico found their way to Hurricane Season’

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Avni Doshi: We make sense of the world in retrospect

Avni Doshi: We make sense of the world in retrospect

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Vasily Grossman and Graham Greene: The Nature of Doubt

Vasily Grossman and Graham Greene: The Nature of Doubt

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Sadia Abbas: Mapping Misogyny

Sadia Abbas: Mapping Misogyny

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The Story of the Hazrat Nizam-ud Din Baoli

The Story of the Hazrat Nizam-ud Din Baoli

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Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte: A Hall of Mirrors

Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte: A Hall of Mirrors

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Lucy Ellmann: Republic of Consciousness

Lucy Ellmann: Republic of Consciousness

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Made to Order

Made to Order

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The Exile of Pessoa & Camus

The Exile of Pessoa & Camus

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A Love Song and other poems

A Love Song and other poems

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The Itch and other poems

The Itch and other poems

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Michael Ondaatje: Shards of Memory

Michael Ondaatje: Shards of Memory

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A Travel Book on Tibet and other poems

A Travel Book on Tibet and other poems

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Readership has increased not dwindled: Bikash De Niyogi

Readership has increased not dwindled: Bikash De Niyogi

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Banyan Tree and other poems

Banyan Tree and other poems

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The Big, Blue Drawer of Memory

The Big, Blue Drawer of Memory

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An Old Woman and other poems

An Old Woman and other poems

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Swati Roy: No Child’s Play

Swati Roy: No Child’s Play

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A Shortage of Words and other poems

A Shortage of Words and other poems

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Diplomatic Baggage and other poems

Diplomatic Baggage and other poems

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Getting There and other poems

Getting There and other poems

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M.G. Vassanji: Interpreter of Memories

M.G. Vassanji: Interpreter of Memories

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I let narratives take their own course: Nayomi Munaweera

I let narratives take their own course: Nayomi Munaweera

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A novel summarises consciousness: Man Booker Prize juror Lila Azam Zanganeh

A novel summarises consciousness: Man Booker Prize juror Lila Azam Zanganeh

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Great fiction moves beyond borders: Man Booker Prize juror Sarah Hall

Great fiction moves beyond borders: Man Booker Prize juror Sarah Hall

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Baroness Lola Young, jury chair, on Man Booker Prize 2017

Baroness Lola Young, jury chair, on Man Booker Prize 2017

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Symbol and other poems

Symbol and other poems

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Thirst and other poems

Thirst and other poems

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To me, in a story, tension is everything: Samanta Schweblin

To me, in a story, tension is everything: Samanta Schweblin

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For true reconciliation, we must first discuss the past: Agualusa

For true reconciliation, we must first discuss the past: Agualusa

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Life Behind Bars

Life Behind Bars

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Doctor Ruth

Doctor Ruth

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Sea Fret

Sea Fret

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In The Shadow Of The Devi Kumaon: An extract

In The Shadow Of The Devi Kumaon: An extract

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'Zelaldinus opens a modern window on Akbar'

'Zelaldinus opens a modern window on Akbar'

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We often disregard our own history: Sujit Saraf

We often disregard our own history: Sujit Saraf

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They Were Closing Deals and other poems

They Were Closing Deals and other poems

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We can help publishers in India get global readership: Sharad Mohan

We can help publishers in India get global readership: Sharad Mohan

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Publishers must focus on authors, and telling stories: Charlie Redmayne

Publishers must focus on authors, and telling stories: Charlie Redmayne

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World Poetry/Prose Portfolio: RED in Konya

World Poetry/Prose Portfolio: RED in Konya

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On Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel and The Festival of Insignificance: An Essay in Seven Parts

On Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel and The Festival of Insignificance: An Essay in Seven Parts

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Day and Night and other poems

Day and Night and other poems

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A Brief History of Seven Killings: An Extract

A Brief History of Seven Killings: An Extract

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The Year of The Runaways: An Extract

The Year of The Runaways: An Extract

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Satin Island: An Extract

Satin Island: An Extract

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A Spool of Blue Thread: An Extract

A Spool of Blue Thread: An Extract

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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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Terry Pratchett: Flight of Fantasy

Terry Pratchett: Flight of Fantasy

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Chalk Dust on The Air

Chalk Dust on The Air

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Chigozie Obioma: Transcribing the African literary consciousness

Chigozie Obioma: Transcribing the African literary consciousness

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I wanted to preserve short story's power in a novel: Anuradha Roy

I wanted to preserve short story's power in a novel: Anuradha Roy

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