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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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Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

MH Mody -
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

AI is officially ruining social media. It made brainrot boring

Bangladesh lost on all fronts under Yunus. A herculean task awaits the new PM

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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