Alice Moon — Excerpt: The therapist hums thoughtfully. “It’s definitely difficult to be a vampire in the 21st century.”
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Chitra Gopalakrishnan — Excerpt: Neera Kashyap is quiet in her telling of daily complexities, bewilderment, frailties and failures of ordinary people within the microcosm she creates within each story... Light touches and restraint in her language co-exist with the potency of her querying and divulgences.
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Translated by Rohee Dholakia — Excerpt: One afternoon, on your way from work to the post office, you notice Prerna from 20 feet away near the glass pane of the Manhattan bagel cafe.
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Zoé Mahfouz — Excerpt: “How come you’re not on the WhatsApp group? Let me add you!” That’s when the nightmare began.
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Barnali Ray Shukla — Excerpt: Zorro the cat, aka Daggu Bhaiya, boasts of a Persian lineage, crossed with a less-celebrated parent. But this bundle of wonder is now a Mumbaikar.








