Fiction Pick
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‘Fear of Flying’: Erica Jong’s 1973 book has joyful abandon rarely found in today’s sad girl novels
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‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘Yakshi’: This short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James is a sensual parable for our times
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Fiction pick: ‘The Ladder of Yarn’, a short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James
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After ‘Daura’: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s Rajasthan novel about water
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‘I want to be Tagore’: The story for which every Punjabi student knows Mohan Bhandari (1937-2021)
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‘The cost of hunger’: Abdus Samad’s poignant short story about life as a displaced Muslim in Assam
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Gulzar on the tragedy of Afghanistan: Four poems and a short story
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‘No Man’s Land’: Anuradha Sharma Pujaree’s short story riffs on a football match in Meghalaya
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‘The Virus’: Is this short story actually a work of fiction in pandemic-struck India?
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‘The Roshogolla Makers’: A sweet short story for the age of the pandemic
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Short story: ‘The Finding’. (Or, a discovery that stunned a world reeling under a pandemic)
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What makes a building go up in flames in this short story? How is it related to a secret illness?
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Seven cli-fi novels that show us how life might imitate art when it comes to climate change
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‘Custodian of Rubble’: Mohan Rakesh’s short story about a chowkidar (and the Partition)
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‘When George III Drives a Train’: A short story by KR Meera
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Krishna Sobti lost a childhood friend in the Partition riots and wrote about her in fiction – twice
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‘India’: A short story by the Bengali writer Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) who died at 95
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‘A Laughing Girl on the Back Seat of a Scooter’: A vintage story by a Pakistani writer
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‘Gunshot’: This inimitable story by Manto is a poignant reminder of life with a disability
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‘The Havelburg Djinn’: A Pakistani stand-up comic and writer’s short story
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'Draupadi', Mahasweta Devi's memorable short story, and still chillingly relevant
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'Level’: Exclusive fiction by Novoneel Chakraborty
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First read: A boy talks of his twin sister, as they’re about to be born
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‘Anyone for potluck?’ An experiment in collaborative fiction writing
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'Sex Scene': A short story about writing sex into fiction