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Urvashi Bahuguna
Urvashi Bahuguna is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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‘In Sickness & In Health’: A poem by Urvashi Bahuguna
‘When telling a vein / from an illusion, a jacaranda from / a stub is beyond my powers...’
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In how many ways can one person recover from mental health problems? These essays count the steps
An excerpt from ‘No Straight Thing Was Ever Made’, by Urvashi Bahuguna.
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Fiction can tell the real truth about mothers and daughters – and what lies between them
Four novels that visit the anger, resentment, and frustration – and love – in this particular relationship.
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Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘How many more days this way, democracy?’: Five poems of lamentation and love from Assam
Politics and violence, language and longing, feature in this selection curated by Urvashi Bahuguna.
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‘A debut can happen at any age. Coming late to publishing doesn’t mean coming late to writing.’
An interview with writer, translator and critic Jenny Bhatt, who has two new books out this year.
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Goa’s Broadway Book Centre is fighting the pandemic with online sales and offline reader intimacy
Founder and owner Khalil Ahmed is digging in for a long haul.
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Video
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Watch: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Meet Rajiv Mohabir, the Guyanese poet of Indian origin who writes to remind himself that he is alive
Migration is his ‘dharma’, and his world in poetry stretches to colonialism, linguistic identity, religiosity, and his ancestors.
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Eight stylish South Asian poets in the diaspora you must read for their striking ideas
They navigate what it means to carry with you your family’s story, habits, preferences and attachments across borders.
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‘I began with the premise that the universe was a bureaucracy and god was on indefinite leave’
An interview with Shehan Karunatilaka on his new novel, ‘Chats With The Dead’.
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The Reel
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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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‘Writing the first chapter in my narrator’s voice was how I learnt who he was’: Deepa Anappara
An interview with the author of ‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’, a debut novel.
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‘I gift you a rugged map carved from cracks between divorced nations’: Five poems from Kashmir
Verses about their homeland by poets from Kashmir, from the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits to the communications blockade, curated by Urvashi Bahuguna.
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‘I wrote my novel in real time’: Meena Kandasamy on her uniquely structured ‘Exquisite Cadavers’
The writer’s new novel is fiction on one side of the page and fact on the other.
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The Field
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Tennis, Miami Masters: Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden through to the final
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Badminton, Spain Masters Super 300: Crasto-Ponnappa, Sindhu move into quarter-finals in Madrid
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IPL 2024: Riyan Parag, bowlers set up win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals
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IPL 2024: KKR bring in Allah Ghazanfar as replacement player; RR rope in Keshav Maharaj
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to open his 2024 season at Doha Diamond League in May