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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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Fiction in translation: In the forests, a man looks for his sister, who left home to join Maoists
An excerpt from ‘I Named My Sister Silence’, by Manoj Rupda, translated from the Hindi by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.
Manoj Rupda & Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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‘Two and a Half Rivers’: A moving novel of caste discrimination and isolation in Punjab
Anirudh Kala’s book is an account of the caste system, loneliness, and mental health.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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This novel brings Burma to readers so authentically that it could have been non-fiction
The political is presented through the personal in Eugene Lawrence’s informative novel from, and of, Burma before it became Myanmar.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India
‘Nowhere People’, Sabitri Roy’s Bengali novel from 1972 now translated into English is an important fictional document of the influx into independent India.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Raga Heartbreak: Singer Shubha Mudgal’s stories from the world of music are fine-tuned to loss
The stories in ‘Looking for Miss Sargam’ are subtle performances of disappointment as a life-changer.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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A Norwegian biographer writes movingly of his Goan father, who was largely a stranger to him
In ‘A Stranger At My Table’, Norwegian-Goan author Ivo de Figueiredo applies his biography-writing skills to his own family with striking results.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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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Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land
‘We are told / that historians call us / other people’.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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A young doctor negotiates love, sexuality and family in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s new novel
In this excerpt from ‘My Father’s Garden’, the unnamed protagonist struggles with his growing feelings of love for a fellow medical student.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Why a journalist wrote about the Niyamgiri agitation in the form of a Young Adult novel
An interview with the author of ‘Year of the Weeds’, a fictionalised telling of the Niyamgiri agitation in Odisha should be read by adults as well.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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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‘It is the story of India itself’: Abdullah Khan on a debut novel that was 20 years in the making
An interview with the author of ‘Patna Blues’, a novel about a lower-middle class Muslim family in small-town Bihar.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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This Patna novel is not just about differences and disappointments, it’s a tribute to the ’90s
Abdullah Khan’s ‘Patna Blues’ tells of the aspirations, disappointments and desires of a once prosperous Muslim family in Bihar.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Real life is often magical for the Lotha tribe of Nagaland, as this collection of folk tales reveals
Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton’s ‘A Girl Swallowed By A Tree’ is a reminder of why oral folk tales must be preserved. They document a history of the imagination.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
The Field
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Football: AIFF technical committee to seek answers from Igor Stimac on India’s recent display
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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