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Topic: fiction

What Margaret Atwood’s memoir Book of Lives reveals—if we read her fiction backwards

Stela Dey -
What links ‘Surfacing’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘The Robber Bride’ is not a neat feminist argument so much as a shared attentiveness to survival.

Look for Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry novels not just on bookshelves, but on a map now

+TFP Antara Baruah -
Indian authors have imagined Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi in fiction. This archive maps it.

What ThePrint editors read in 2023 — Here are some of their favourites

ThePrint Team -
From foreign policy, culture, politics, fantasy, and psychology to espionage—a variety of books captured our attention this year.

A millennial desi femme fatale and in a saree. That’s Netflix’s ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein’

Tina Das -
Anchal Singh’s portrayal of Purva, a small-town femme fatale, feels straight out of Manohar Kahaniyan. Her ‘USP’ is her girl-next-door look.

Penguin, Bloomsbury, Juggernaut can wait—Twitter is the new fiction publisher

Rachel John -
Indians are writing stories on Twitter. In case you can’t sit through a 500-page novel

‘This House of Clay and Water’ weaves a compelling tale, but lacks nuance

Sabah Gurmat -
The book tells a tale of love and loss, saints and sinners, patriarchies and peripheries along with the trials and tribulations shared by marginalized people in modern-day Pakistan.

‘The Lovers’ Book review: A Take on Love, Lust and Self-Exile

Katyayini Singh -
‘The Lovers’ is a story of a young man as he navigates between love, lust, and self-exile in the United States.

‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ is a story of love and loss stuck in limbo

Vandana Menon -
Saunder's novel is set in the Bardo— a liminal space between life and after-life where Abraham Lincoln visits his deceased young son

‘The Golden House’ is Rushdie’s twisted retelling of Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’

Shantam Goyal -
Stacked like a neat game of Tetris, 'The Golden House' sticks true to Salman Rushdie's whimsical style of writing.  

Empire: A novel about the trials of a female warrior in the Chola Dynasty

Priyamvada Grover -
A historical fiction about Aremis, a female warrior in the Chola dynasty

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Opinion

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

Stela Dey -
The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

9.2% jump in arms transfer shows this is era of war—SIPRI reveals the temper we live in

Trump either ends Iran conflict quickly, or sky-high energy costs will force him to do so

Economy

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

Chitleen K Sethi -
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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