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This picture has the cover of the book Again I Hear These Waters by Shalim M. Hussain on the right...
Etching of a bird flying over the countryside with a view of a city in the background
Bird of Paradise by Jacques Callot in the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art
A woman looks out the windows of a slightly dilapidated white brick building.
Kalpana Raina stands in the window of her uncle's former home. Photo by Tanveer Ajsi.
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A two-by-six grid of the covers of the six books in the Watchlist: Reinbou, A Whale Is a Country,...
Portrait of Vishes Kothari
Portrait of WWB's poetry editor, Sohini Basak
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Clockwise from top left: Bikash Dihingia, Risten Sokki, Imran Sada'i, Boubacar Boris Diop, Gawani Gaongen, Jean D'Amerique, Adriana Paredes Pinda, Emiliana Bernard-Stephenson
The covers of the six books featured in the Watchlist: The Murderer's Mother, Forgottenness, The...
A pair of vintage storage trunks sitting on a sandy-colored, tiled floor
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Red sparks and flames on a black background
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Five vultures standing on bare tree branches
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A large, shallow river with pines on the opposite bank and mountains in the distance
Nameri National Park. Photo by Debuapriyo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The twelve books featured in the list, in three rows of five
The covers of the books featured in the Watchlist: Offshore Lightning, The Country of Too, No One...
Stray dogs
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Black, gray, and white storm clouds
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Cobwebs outside of a house
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Empty train tracks disappearing into the horizon in a dry landscape
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A boat on the coast of Gujarat at sunset
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Portrait of Dr. Sachin Ketkar
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A colored floral illustration on paper
Detail of “Leopard Bearing Lion's Order to Fellow Judges", Folio 51 recto from a Kalila wa Dimna. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981
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Portrait of Dr. Tridip Suhrud
An old ornate mansion in India with a green wrought iron gate
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Two blue glass skyscrapers seen from below against a cloudy blue sky
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A pair of black leather lace-up boots in front of a white wall
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A man paddles a canoe in a river at sunset
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A wagtail perching on a stick by a body of water
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The covers of the books featured in the list
Jenny Bhatt (left) and Rita Kothari (right)
A game of hopscotch on asphalt
FranHogan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via WikiMedia Commons
The covers of the ten books featured in the gift guide
Tree of life carving at the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque
Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of a man walking alongside his bike on a tree-lined path
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A woman in a pink sari walks in the street in front of an apartment building
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Photo of a school framed by two trees
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The covers of all the books featured in the list
Sketch of Infernal Landscape by Hieronymus Bosch
Rik Klein Gotink and Robert G. Erdmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of writer and translator Nisha Susan
Portrait of Meena Kandasamy
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Double portrait of writer Jhumpa Lahiri
A metal bowl against a white background
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