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Neighbour
Aditi Chandrasekar
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Echoes in the Hallway
Mary Tina Shamli Pillay
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The Wrong Woman
Veena Verma
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Jocasta’s Son
Sharika Nair
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A Polyamorous Tale
Ashvani Sachdev
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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
Abdul Jamil Urfi
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The Perumal Murugan interview: ‘Periyar ignited my awareness of the insidious caste system’
Saumya Singh
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Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A manifesto for regret
Utkarsh Mani Tripathi
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‘The Ink Black Heart’: Robert Galbraith’s new-age locked room mystery
Ananya Dutta Gupta
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Circles
Ritika Bali
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Anjana Menon: ‘Onam in a Nightie is about the culture, values and community spirit of Keralites’
Shireen Quadri
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Priya Hajela: ‘Ladies’ Tailor is a story of rebuilding life in the tumultuous backdrop of Partition’
Saumya Singh
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An Imaginary Biography of Rivers
Ashwani Kumar
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In The Mountains
Amanthi Harris
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Kunal Basu’s In An Ideal World: An Old Country Of Young People
Ananya Dutta Gupta
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Simran Dhir: ‘In today’s Delhi, pragmatism is important to balance out idealism’
Shireen Quadri
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Shivani Sibal: ‘The act of writing makes you confront yourself’
Shireen Quadri
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The Train to Varanasi
Siddhartha Gigoo
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The Fence
Neilay Khasnabish
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A Wait For Anger
Aarushi Agrawal
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Ari Gautier’s The Thinnai breaks new ground in Franco-Indian Dalit writing
Dr Chinnadevi Singadi
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Krupa Ge on her debut novel, What We Know About Her, an inquiry into the society’s treatment of women
Saumya Singh
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Space Station Through My Window
Annapurna Sharma
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Sonal Kohli on her short stories about the quiet lives of ordinary people
Anusree PV
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Hope Came In A Small Blue Package
Naviya Gupta
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‘Literature not addressing issues like mob lynching at all’: Chandan Pandey, author of Legal Fiction
Utkarsh Mani Tripathi
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J.K. Rowling’s The Christmas Pig: A Fantastic Fairytale That Will Melt Your Heart
Aazim Maaz
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Fall From Grace
Geetha Nair G.
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Cold Flesh: A translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Thanda Ghosht by C. Christine Fair
Saadat Hasan Manto
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Velvet Was the Night: A noir thriller, set in 1970s Mexico City, captures the turbulent years of the Dirty War
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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The Pain Merchant: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction makes the strange seem familiar
Manjula Padmanabhan
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Carcass
Prashila Naik
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Rohit Trilokekar’s The Perfect Outside: Unboxing Life into the Imperfect ‘Inside’
Dr Chinnadevi Singadi
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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
Saumya Singh
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Anuradha Roy: ‘Novels start as ideas, images, moments of finding connections’
Shireen Quadri
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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’
Neha Kirpal
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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
Saumya Singh
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Why Ismat Chughtai Remains Relevant As a Feminist Icon
Saumya Singh
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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
Padmaja Challakere
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What Would Celandrina Do?
A.C. Koch
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Annapurna Sweets
Ajanta Paul
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The Portrait
Shikoh Mohsin Mirza
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A Death Without Mourning
Aida Bode
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NON-FICTION/ESSAY
Alka Joshi: My Hero’s (or Harrowing) Journey to Publication
Alka Joshi
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Riva Razdan, On Ownership: Where is India’s Katniss Everdeen?
Riva Razdan
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Sahar Mustafah: ‘The yearning for stories that reflect my lived experiences informs my writing’
Shumaila Taher
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Two Short Stories by Manohar Shetty
Manohar Shetty
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Jane Borges: ‘Bombay Balchão is as much about people as it is about a place’
Tulika H. Bhojwani
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Why I Really Love Libraries
Dia Bhojwani
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Last Queen: The Captivating Story of Rani Jindan Kaur
Neha Kirpal
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When Scorpions Come to Call
Faleeha Hassan
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Recollection and Reconciliation in Brandon Taylor’s Real Life
Palash Mahmud
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Thievery and Blood
Vivek Nath Mishra
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Mira Nair’s Adaptation of A Suitable Boy: A Tale of Missing Perspectives
Deepa Onkar
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A Trifling Matter
Chandrashekhar Mahajan
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The First Date
Varun Mario Chaudhary
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The Schoolgirl’s Story
Ankush Saikia
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Slow Time
Vikram Kapur
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Wartime CEO
Sona Maniar
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The Goddess Arrives
Nishi Pulugurtha
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Birth and death in the time of the pandemic: Emma Donoghue on her novel set during 1918 Spanish flu
Nawaid Anjum
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Do Indians have Tagore’s identity of being an Asian?
Devdan Chaudhuri
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‘Kashmir is Kafkaesque version of Arabian Nights... So many stories of horror and pain to be told’
Mir Khubaib
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Spool of Pink Thread
Niranjana Hariharanandanan
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Mothballs of the Mind
Kankana Basu
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Where Rainbows End
Valsala Menon
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Strange Things That Happened Before My Mother’s Death and other stories
Dion D’Souza
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Their Time is Up
Damyanti Biswas
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Odds and Ends: The Hawai Chappal
Subodh Deshpande
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Wrong Talk: A Triptych
Zachary Tichauer Bushnell
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Long-Distance Relationship
Radhika Lata Murthy
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The Tale of a Half-Widow
Nageen Rather
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Odds and Ends: The Bucket and the Shower
Subodh Deshpande
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Saikat Majumdar: Scent and Sensibility
Shireen Quadri
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Carry It All
Kanza Javed
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Dreams
Sushant Dhar
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Lonesome
Sona Maniar
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These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light: An Excerpt
Dharini Bhaskar
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‘Nepal Litfest fosters pluralities of thoughts’
Shireen Quadri
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Mulk Raj Anand: Curator of Child’s Consciousness
Sudeep Ghosh
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A Murmur of Murder
Svani Parekh
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Sadia Abbas: Mapping Misogyny
Shireen Quadri
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Unni R: The Magic of Realistic Stories
Sabin Iqbal
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The Slowdown
Devdan Chaudhuri
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Anthem
Naima Rashid
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The Sorcerer’s Bride
Monisha Raman
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Lucy Ellmann: Republic of Consciousness
Shireen Quadri
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A Sailor’s Journey
Tabish Nawaz
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Fine Company
Percy Bharucha
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Sunanda, the Security Guard
Sheela Jaywant
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Oh My God, Oh My God, I’m Your Biggest Fan
Krishan Coupland
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Two Images
Kusum Lata Sawhney
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Dive
Rose Ramsden
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Love and Longing in Patna
Dibyajyoti Sarma
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Romance by Rickshaw
Yamuna Flaherty
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The Exception and The Rule: Notes from a Suicide
Omar Sabbagh
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Digory
Shawn W. Campbell
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Rebecca Makkai: Art for Heart’s Sake
Shireen Quadri
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The Magical World of Murakami
Shireen Quadri
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Kulsoom
Sobia Ali
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Annual Anthology of Short Fiction: Call for Submissions
The Punch
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Sweet Wood
Mehreen Ahmed
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Tammy’s Special Day
Sipho Sithole
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Why you must read South Asian literature
Surina Narula
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Mehr: Love Across the Border
Dr Madhu Shrivastava
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Payback
Asha Iyer Kumar
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Excerpt: The Painter of Bridges
Priscilla Morris
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Art & Design
Cartoons: Adventures in Adjuncting & God and Satan
Carl Dimitri
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The Man Who Was Consumed by His Wife
Andrew Rooney
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Margarita Moon: A Fabled Cocktail
Rekha Valliappan
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Tengchi
Babitha Marina Justin
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Scarcity
Sandeep Narayanan
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On Writing: Discovering Virinara
Usha Alexander
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Rain in Summer
Vineetha Mokkil
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Michael Ondaatje: Shards of Memory
Shireen Quadri
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Perspectives
Lakshmi Gnana Bala
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As Neem trees fell…the delivery boy came up!
Humra Quraishi
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In the end, a novel is about controlling time: Sumana Roy
Shireen Quadri
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The Pink Dog
Sabin Iqbal
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The universe is my playground: Veena Nagpal
The Punch
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The Village Magician
Jinoy Jose P
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Mr and Mrs Inn
Humra Quraishi
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Scent of Sousan and Yasaman
Sanaz Fotouhi
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A funeral, and a belly of memories
Sabin Iqbal
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Meeting Madhavan
Radhika Venkatarayan
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Preti Taneja: A Gaze at World’s Darkness
Nawaid Anjum
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I’m a visual writer: Karan Mahajan
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Demonetisation Tales: The Ghost Detective
Devdan Chaudhuri
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Grippin
Susmita Srivastava
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Solitary
Laura Solomon
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The Life of a Woman
Kausambhi Majumdar
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Upon the Hour of Return
Rinita Banerjee
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Memory and forgetting
Shireen Quadri
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Doctor Ruth
Amitava Kumar
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Sea Fret
Dilys Rose
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A Superior Man
Omar Sabbagh
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The Tryst: An extract
Monique Roffey
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My Meandering Mobile
Liz Neisloss
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Mynah Hands, Flying Fingers
K. Srilata
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Why Pakistan? A novel tries to find an answer
The Punch
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Gariahat Junction
Rituparna Roy
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Shazia Omar's Dark Diamond: A riotous ride on a time machine
Neeman Sobhan
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Creme de la crime: A thriller with a desi touch
Aditya Sinha
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The World’s Oldest
Dhiraj Singh
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Tom Hanks' book of stories out in October
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World Poetry/Prose Portfolio: The Camphorwood Binder
Renata Jambrešić Kirin
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The Man Without Answers: Excerpts from a Ghost Novel
Rajorshi Chakraborti
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I prefer writing to affect my relationship with life at large: Shahnaz Bashir
Ubeer Naqushbandi
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Art isn’t about truth at all, but without it we’d be lost: Anil Menon
The Punch
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The Enigmatic Case of a Metaphysical Love Story
Devdan Chaudhuri
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I often do have a sense of the beginning and the end: Anjali Joseph
Devapriya Roy
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Through a Glass Darkly: A conversation with Manjula Padmanabhan
Kanishka Ramchandani
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Kalkatta: An Extract
Kunal Basu
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Injury
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Finger
Hari Krishan Kaul
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The lyrical expression of the ordinary attracts me: Anjum Hasan
Sumana Roy
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Amit Chaudhuri: 'I see history as junk, and junk as somehow being historical'
Devdan Chaudhuri
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The Fishermen: An Extract
Chigozie Obioma
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A Little Life: An Extract
Hanya Yanagihara
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A Secret Life
Siddhartha Gigoo
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The Sins of a Writer-Son
Rajorshi Chakraborti
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Ameen in Heaven
Shahnaz Bashir
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The Self and the Other
Devdan Chaudhuri
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Portrait of Another Woman
Shazia Omar
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36 Feet Towards Revolution
Subimal Misra
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Chigozie Obioma: Transcribing the African literary consciousness
Shireen Quadri
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Beautiful, Strange, Hurt Lily
Ranbir Singh Sidhu
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Jerusalem
Ranbir Singh Sidhu
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