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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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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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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: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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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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IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals hold their nerve to beat Gujarat Titans in a high-scoring thriller
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Boxing: Preeti to headline India’s 50-member squad for Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championship
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Watch, highlights ISL 2023-24: Odisha FC beat Mohun Bagan Super Giant in first leg of semi-final
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Archery, World Cup Stage I: Indian men’s and women’s compound teams through to finals
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ISL 2023-24: How first-time head coach Petr Kratky helped Mumbai City FC pick up the pieces