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Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally im...

First published in 1966 by award-winning Marathi writer Anuradha Vaidya, A Ragdoll for My Heart is a unique free verse novella now making its Engli...

Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homo...

A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, Clone inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weave...

Its midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, Were coming in! Get on the floor! A few terrorized minutes la...

Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author, perhaps most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation by Rita K...

Why didn't you save the world? This is the Sprite's cry. Meanwhile, Aesop tries to save his skin, make up his fables, and just live his life. Given...

Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass-a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a ...

Jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her familys. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young Jeumon won...

From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati - self-immolation - feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider te...

Taking care of our women and children builds not just a generation but the nation itself, writes the Indian film star Shabana Azmi in her introduct...

Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology ...

Northeast India, connected to the rest of the country by only a narrow strip of land, has long been a site of tension between people native to the ...

In this collection of short stories, Avinuo Kire tells powerful tales of women overcoming violence and repression. In The Power to Forgive, many of...

Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, The Saga of Satisar is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winnin...

King Vikram has a devil of a dilemma! In order to gain power and wealth beyond his wildest dreams, he must deliver a corpse to the sorcerer Shaitan...

In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a s...