Your destination for new fiction, narrative non-fiction, literary stories, interviews and more, from South Asia and beyond.
OUR LATEST STORIES
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A Selection of the Best Campus Novels
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Kariajja the Storyteller- Kum Veerabhadrappa, translated by Srikar Raghavan
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Exceptional Modern Short Story Collections
A selection of story collections worth your time.
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Scattered Parts- Lara Gibson
A tender account of a half-lived love affair.
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Five Modern Literary Romances
A list of recommendations for Valentine’s week and beyond.
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Making Roots- Priyanka Sacheti
A meditation on finding home through trees.
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The Best International Books of 2023
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The Best Indian Books Of 2023
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Ants- Ratul Ghosh
This reflective story of caregiving and age is one of the awarded stories in the 2023 Deodar Prize.
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For the Plot: On Narrativizing Life- Eshna Sharma
A personal meditation on performance, narrative and authenticity.
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I Live Inside Music - Pragya Bhagat
A personal essay on the experience of misophonia and living with it.
THE ARCHIVE
A small introduction to the life and times of arguably Latin America’s greatest and best-known novelist.
Vikram Nijhawan
A riveting personal essay about memory, a father’s journey to Wimbledon in the 1970s and tennis as a lifelong companion.
Anjali N
A heartfelt personal essay that explores silence, expression, being diagnosed with autism and finding acceptance and love.
An account of the life of a classic Russian writer who went deep into the recesses of the mind, from exile to mock execution to literary stardom.
Does individual environmental action have any place in a system where it already feels like it’s too late?
Sindhu Ratnarajan
The inextricable link between grief and humour comes to the fore in this account of organising a funeral during the Sri Lankan crisis.
Ratul Ghosh
This reflective story of caregiving and age is one of the awarded stories in the 2023 Deodar Prize.
A heartfelt, reflective look at returning home while coming into your own is this week’s short story
Sonal Sher
An eerie, dystopian work of speculative fiction follows a woman trying to reconstruct her childhood Kheer recipe.
Prthvir Solanki
A hilarious and absurd tale about friends in the afterlife and final requests.
Dilsher Dhillon
A gripping trip down memory lane questions the laws of timing, potential and fidelity in this short story.
Manoj Rupda
A translated story about a boy who wanders far from his village into the forest is about formative experiences, told with the simplicity and fluency of a time gone by.
Ajay Patri
A wealthy widow has to manage the inheritance of her late husband and changing family dynamics while reflecting on the past in this sparse and affecting short story.
Ash Shah
An isolated writer in a Goan village finds a muse of sorts in this tale of missed opportunity, timing and the creative process.
Alina Gufran
Frequently changing house help, a disintegrating marriage and a girl coming of age make up the ingredients of this emotionally resonant story.
A pick of some of the most compelling and harrowing reads on the Partition for Independence Day this year.