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Book review: Black River by Nilanjana Roy

Crime and punishment Is this book a police procedural? Classic urban/rural noir fiction? A reflective look at all the elliptical loops around a crime? Actually, Nilanjana Roy`s Black River  is all that. With this work, Roy brings  to a crime fiction debut all the skill she employed in her delightful cat books The Wildings and…

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Books: Best Indian Fiction of 2022

Best Indian Fiction  of 2022  Even as we were emerging from the pandemic, blinking in the bright light, my reading through the year continued to be both substantial and satisfying. This is a listicle of Indian fiction of 2022 that fulfilled my one-point criterion: it touched a chord with me. Valli.  Written by Sheela Tomy,…

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