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Citizen Chained

A regional classic brings out the dehumanising experience of prison life

Love in the Time of War

A pulp panorama featuring an Air Force romantic

Hari Kunzru: ‘The border is not a nice place right now for anybody with brown skin’

A writer in a polarised world. Hari Kunzru talks about his art and politics in a conversation with Rahul Pandita

Being Mortal

Sheryl Sandberg’s guide on coping with loss and how to be a better friend

The Perfect Murder

A much abused genre in India is reaching a sense of literary maturity

The Parable of a True Muslim

Through candid and spirited letters to his sons, a father addresses the issues that haunt Islam today

Anees Salim: The Solitary Reaper

Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story

The Angry Fabulist

In Prayaag Akbar’s first novel, a mother’s search for her daughter becomes a searing argument against power. The writer in conversation with Bhavya Dore

The Reverse Bank of India

An institution that gave up independence on the verge of winning it

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