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The serial killer of Kittur
Exclusive publication of a short story by the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger
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A year on from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman
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