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Anees Salim: The Heirs of the King

Jai Arjun Singh

Anees Salim’s multi-narrator novel tells of children discovering their lineage

The Great Indian Family

With her 20th book, Namita Gokhale does what she does best—write about lives like ours

The Final Six

The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist tells of the persistence of grief, the deceptions of online prattle, the call of the wild, racial inequality and the triumph of the human spirit

Reading Fast and Slow

Try taking up a book one page at a time

The Earthspinner

An excerpt from award-winning author Anuradha Roy’s forthcoming novel

Forbidden Intimacies

A debut short story collection from Pakistan lays bare power and desire

Curfewed Lives

An archive of trauma and psychic wounds from Kashmir

Scandinavia, A to Z

The real-life world of Nordic noir

Feasting on Fear

Inside the subcontinent’s house of spirits

Does Fate Exist?

Stories shaped by bereavement, loss and abandonment

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