A Writer Speaks
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What an elderly English tourist taught writer Anees Salim about his hometown, Varkala
‘An old man from Brighton and a small boy from Varkala.’
Anees Salim
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‘Images, phrases, characters’: Farah Ahamed on the literary influences on her book ‘Period Matters’
‘Book in the Footnotes’.
Farah Ahamed
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‘In these shitty times, your loving cripple’: Writer Hanif Kureishi’s notes from a hospital bed
After a sudden dangerous fall in Rome, Kureishi has dictated tweets from his hospital bed with updates on his health, ruminations about life, and more.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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‘Clarity is not the protocol of literature’: Geetanjali Shree on the writer’s responsibilities
‘Why is literature not given its due? Why is a writer not seen as someone very important for the running of society?’
Geetanjali Shree
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‘I heard sounds come from the water’: Sharanya Manivannan on the images in her new picture book
The picture book is titled ‘Mermaids In The Moonlight’, and the coming graphic novel for adults, ‘Incantations Over Water’.
Sharanya Manivannan
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How a farmers’ march in 2018 entered Anita Agnihotri’s newly translated novel in real time
‘I am walking along with hundreds of other writers in the country.’
Anita Agnihotri
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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How is a writer inspired to write by the scenes she sees and the conversations she overhears
Bilingual novelist and short story writer Anukrti Upadhyay talks about her creative catalysts.
Anukrti Upadhyay
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Robert Clive reimagined: How to use the techniques of novel-writing for historical figures
The author of a ‘Fortune’s Soldier’, a new novel about Robert Clive, the founder of the British empire in India, explains how to meld facts with fiction.
Alex Rutherford
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Why novelist Sheena Kalayil does not like being boxed as a BAME writer
Broad labels like ‘black, asian and minority ethnic’ – or BAME – do no justice to each unique, individual writer, argues Kalyail.
Sheena Kalayil, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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‘Chattu’ and I: How Chetan Bhagat and I both started our (polar opposite) literary journeys from IIT
Novelist Amitabha Bagchi’s debut work of fiction was also set in IIT Delhi, just like his college senior Chetan Bhagat. But the similarities ended there.
Amitabha Bagchi
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Is the modern world too close for comfort to write about? Two recent books show how it is being done
Tabish Khair’s ‘Night of Happiness’ and Anjum Hasan’s ‘A Day in the Life’ plunge headlong into the unmanageable contemporary.
Saikat Majumdar
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‘My first short story, written at the age of 14, had an unhappy fate. But it rescued me.’
Writer Shazaf Fatima Haider recounts the scandalous beginning to her literary career.
Shazaf Fatima Haider
The Field
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go