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‘Writing is a bad habit of mine. I have never stopped,’ says Anita Desai

Nandini Nair

Anita Desai returns after more than a decade with the story of a young woman in Mexico. She speaks about why writers are outsiders

Calls of Kathmandu

Contemporary Nepalis struggling to belong to new worlds

Lost and Found

A young woman’s search for meaning in the Himalayas

What Ifs

A dystopian novel that moves between fate and possibility

States of Unrest

Neel Mukherjee’s new novel is a quarrel with capitalism. The author speaks about choices made and those deferred

Subversive Flair

The deceptive straightforwardness of Subimal Misra’s short stories

Character Is Destiny

Locked-room mysteries with a contemporary twist

Lost and Found in Kashmir

Hari Krishna Kaul’s short stories sparkle with wit and empathy

Writing in the Dark

Raj Kamal Jha’s fiction transforms the news from something that fades into the past into a hologram of the present

Metaphorical Malayalee

A portrait of Kerala in fifty stories

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