novels
Celebrating Differences
Nandini Nair
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Premchand’s Partner
On the writer’s 140th birth anniversary, why it’s important to celebrate his wife Shivrani Devi, herself an author and freedom fighter
The Drawing Room Writer
Diksha Basu’s new novel is irreverent and glamorous. She tells Urvashi Bahuguna there is more to literature than tortured stories
JK Rowling: Woke Target
The Harry Potter author is being accused of transphobia for not being sufficiently gender neutral
Ritual and Catharsis
Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman
Being Cyrus
Cyrus Mistry moves away from the Parsi settings of his earlier works to a quiet cardamom farm in Kerala for his new novel
Toni Morrison (1931-2019): The Beloved
She gave voice to African Americans figuratively, and literally by recreating their language
Facing up to the Forbidden
The novelist Nemat Sadat tells Bhavya Dore about the travails of coming out as a gay man in Afghanistan
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