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Moral Overdose

Kiran Nagarkar’s novel about Kabir collapses under its didactic weight

People and Peaks

Two writers romance the Everest

Divided We Fall

What’s it like being a Muslim in today’s India? Salman Khurshid takes a personal journey with a political message

Facing up to the Forbidden

The novelist Nemat Sadat tells Bhavya Dore about the travails of coming out as a gay man in Afghanistan

Subversive Truth

A Bengali novelist reimagines dissent

Passion Plays

Love is a dish best served cold

Opium for the Masses

The relationship between economic growth and religious belief

On top of the World

Alex Honnold has redefined rock climbing, and our understanding of fear

The Sixth Sense

Hold your breath, smart detectives are at work

Elif Shafak: ‘I defend a pluralistic, liberal democracy’

Turkish author Elif Shafak tackles difficult subjects, often to the ire of the ruling regime. She tells Rajni George how storytelling can create empathy

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