🇮🇳 Indian literary fiction: alive and contemporary
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📚 About our sessions
Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.
📖 About this session
We read contemporary Indian writers, in English translation, published in Autumn 2025 issue of Granta magazine - Granta 173: India
"Our main aim with the fiction in this issue was to avoid both the exhausted elite Anglo-Indian writing of the New York–London–South Delhi corridor and the overhyped ‘authentic’ fiction of the regions, in order to concentrate on what is most alive in contemporary Indian fiction."
From the magazine editor Thomas Meaney's introduction to Granta 173: India. https://granta.com/india-introduction/
🌆A Measure of Martyrdom - by Vivek Shanbhag (Translated by Srinath Perur) (~6650 words) (Excerpt from original novel in ಕನ್ನಡ: ಊರು ಭಂಗ)
🐃Kazhumaadan - by Jeyamohan (Translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar) (~4130 words) (Original short story in தமிழ்: கழுமாடன்)
After the discussion feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends. ☕