Indian fiction

The witch in the Olde Woods

If Jane wanted her mother cured, she would have to be the witch’s slave for life. Was she willing to make a hard bargain?

Twinkle Khanna on her new book ‘Welcome to Paradise’, and on taking notes from conversations around her

‘My book is a love letter to our wildness’ | Tashan Mehta on her new fantasy novel ‘Mad Sisters of Esi’

Radhika Santhanam

Decolonising sci-fi and fantasy books | South Asian authors share notes on reclaiming literature

The elephant and the boy | Review of Manoj Rupda’s ‘I Named My Sister Silence’, translated by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Illustration: Sreejith R.Kumar

The butterfly shoes

The deceptively simple Perumal Murugan | Review of ‘Fire Bird’ and ‘Sandalwood Soap’

A cheeky plan

Brunella vs Denzer

Wands and whiskers

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Ghost in the classroom

Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer Ponneelan’s Karisal was first published in 1976.

Transporting a landscape: review of Ponneelan’s Black Soil (Karisal), translated by his granddaughter J. Priyadarshini

Bank of Baroda Rashtrabhasha Samman Award is the latest in growing list of literature prizes in India

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Irreverent histories: review of Nilanjan P. Choudhury’s Song of the Golden Sparrow

The sharbat project

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The ghost of the summer house

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Reflections on art

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A story gone wrong

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Mission Sparrow

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With flying colours

Author Perumal Murugan at an event in Chennai on February 15, 2023.

Spotlight on Tamil with the International Booker nod to Perumal Murugan’s Pyre, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan

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