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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 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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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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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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‘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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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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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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Reflections on a Collaborative Novel by Nine Authors

Reflections on a Collaborative Novel by Nine Authors

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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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These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light: An Excerpt

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light: An Excerpt

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Lucy Ellmann: Republic of Consciousness

Lucy Ellmann: Republic of Consciousness

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Mehr: Love Across the Border

Mehr: Love Across the Border

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Excerpt: The Painter of Bridges

Excerpt: The Painter of Bridges

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Conversations with Khushwant Singh

Conversations with Khushwant Singh

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On Writing: Discovering Virinara

On Writing: Discovering Virinara

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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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All stories come from somewhere: Sarvat Hasin

All stories come from somewhere: Sarvat Hasin

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Preti Taneja: A Gaze at World’s Darkness

Preti Taneja: A Gaze at World’s Darkness

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Unanswered questions about Corbett’s life

Unanswered questions about Corbett’s life

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Memory and forgetting

Memory and forgetting

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Arundhati  Roy and Her Suicidal Mission: A Conspiracy Theory

Arundhati Roy and Her Suicidal Mission: A Conspiracy Theory

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The Tryst: An extract

The Tryst: An extract

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We often disregard our own history: Sujit Saraf

We often disregard our own history: Sujit Saraf

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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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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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My literary agenda is to write women protagonists: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My literary agenda is to write women protagonists: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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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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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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A Little Life: An Extract

A Little Life: An Extract

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Beautiful,  Strange, Hurt Lily

Beautiful, Strange, Hurt Lily

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