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Books

Catch Them Young

Children’s fiction in India dares to echo the cultural arguments of the times

Letting the Dead Speak

Shehan Karunatilaka brings the Booker Prize to the haunted island

Booker prize 2022 winner: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Karunatilaka’s novel, though set during the civil war of the 1990s, seems oddly resonant today

Nirmal Verma: A Moral Life

The making of the writer Nirmal Verma

Tricoloured Memories

Oral histories that conjure up the varied experiences of 1947

Booker prize 2022: The Final Six

The novels shortlisted for the Booker prize 2022 use humour, horror and heart as strategy

Why Abdul Kalam Was Denied a Second Term

On the eve of his birth anniversary on October 15, his former private secretary makes some startling revelations about the politics behind the scenes

Languorous Unfoldings

An anthology by young writers that spans Mughal nostalgia to present dystopias

Speaking from the Cloisters

A chronicle of the life of a nun and her fight for justice

Kamila Shamsie: The Anatomy of a Friendship

In her new novel, Kamila Shamsie moves between Karachi of the late 1980s and London of today. She speaks to Open about how childhood bonds can fray and strengthen over time

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