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Review: Good Girl by Aria Aber

India, Sept. 18 -- The protagonist of poet Aria Aber's debut novel Good Girl is a second-generation Afghan migrant, Nilab Haddadi, who goes by the ethnically vague 'Nila'. Set out like a classic bildu... Read More


Selma Dabbagh: "I am worried about how we are becoming desensitised to horror"

India, Aug. 15 -- The world will be irrevocably changed after Gaza. I do not think we have ever experienced in real time a genocide in this way. I think that the type of killing and the level of killi... Read More


Selma Dabbagh: "I am worried about how we are becoming desensitized to horror"

India, Aug. 15 -- Your novel Out of It has been named as one of the books to be read in the face of the ongoing conflict. What role do you see for literary fiction in making sense of the world after G... Read More


Review: Shape of an Apostrophe by Uttama Kirit Patel

India, July 23 -- Uttama Kirit Patel's Shape of an Apostrophe is a novel which enjoys making the reader aware of the trauma-related baggage that human beings carry with them, their correspondent respo... Read More


Sanjena Sathian: "There's a very thin line between utopia and cults"

India, July 19 -- What was the driving force behind Goddess Complex? I started writing Goddess Complex in 2018, and it began as a project about the decline of a relationship between a 23-year-old wom... Read More


'It's fun to blur real, unreal to say something true'

India, July 19 -- 1The discourse around motherhood in both the Indian and the American contexts is laden with social and religious conservatism. Was this what you wanted to explore in your novel? I ne... Read More