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What Southasia read in 2022

Book recommendations from a year of reading by Southasian writers, poets, translators and journalists

| Jan 06, 2023

The meeting

A short story.

| Aug 10, 2021

The caravan of Sanuman

Translated excerpt from Dor Bahadur Bista’s Nepali-language novel ‘Sotala’.

Gobyaer

A short story.

| Jun 15, 2021

Unknown gunmen

A short story.

| Apr 22, 2021

Papa’s letters

A short story.

| Nov 13, 2020

The Lalbujh Affair

A short story.

| Aug 23, 2020

Second Class

Shortlisted in the Himal Short Story Competition 2019.

| Feb 14, 2020

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