Bottom Shelf
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The spirits in Manoj Das’s near-forgotten stories makes you wonder who the real ghosts are
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
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Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories provide a taste of what made his novels so powerful in their times
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This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago
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Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness
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To read this novel from 1940 is to read an elegy to love and longing in an older Delhi
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Mukul Kesavan’s time-travelling photographer tells an unorthodox story of the Partition
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In Abraham Verghese’s deeply moving tale about friendship, tennis is both a comfort and a metaphor
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It’s too soon to forget this warm, charming novel about an underdog in big, lonely Mumbai
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If you love Indian graphic novels, don’t forget the one that came at the beginning
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The first autobiographical novel by an Indian woman writing in English was both beautiful and profound
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What English mathematicians thought of the ‘Hindoo calculator’
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Why India's shape-shifting folk stories need to be read all over again
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The Indian diaspora fiction that you really should be reading
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Why Mahesh Dattani will start afresh and not fade away
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Vikram Chandra’s ‘Love and Longing in Bombay’: Where potboilers meet literature
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The forgotten forays of a foreign journalist into Kashmir and Bollywood
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Is Ruskin Bond’s most intriguing work his ghost stories?
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The first novels of Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh were more alike than you’d think
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Everything you didn’t want to know about the RK Narayan book that no one reads anymore, but should
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‘Gay Neck’: The forgotten book by an Indian that won America’s top children’s literature prize
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The book that Indian writing in English began with – in 1794