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Urvashi Bahuguna
Urvashi Bahuguna is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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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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‘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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Trending
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A celebrity fitness instructor offers five rules of fitness for everyone
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‘Jaane Jaan’ review: A dream cast and solid craft steer ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ adaptation
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Sriram Raghavan: Remembering the dark side to Dev Anand
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In the poetry of Amir Khusrau, food is served with style and flourish
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India suspends visa services in Canada as rift widens over Sikh leader’s murder
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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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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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Video
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Watch: Rahul Gandhi puts on railway porters’ uniform and badge and carries luggage as he meets them
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Watch: The moment when Pope Francis joined a priest’s video call to his family back in Kerala
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Watch: Scenes of chaos at Mumbai Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations as crowd breaks through barricade
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Watch: Man brews coffee and records it in cinematic style inspired by the film ‘Oppenheimer’
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Watch: Deep-sea footage of World War II shipwrecks from the Battle of Midway in the Pacific Ocean
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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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‘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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The Reel
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‘Jaane Jaan’ review: A dream cast and solid craft steer ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ adaptation
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What’s behind the Kareena Kapoor Khan swerve: ‘It’s important to keep changing yourself’
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Sriram Raghavan: Remembering the dark side to Dev Anand
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‘Khufiya’ trailer: Tabu, Ali Fazal in Vishal Bhardwaj’s spy thriller
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Host’ is a Korean creature feature with head and heart
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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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‘I was so ignorant, naïve, small-minded that I couldn’t have possibly written anything better.’
An interview with Roshan Ali, whose debut novel, ‘Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction’, has been shortlisted for two literary award
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The Field
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Misplaced priorities: India’s preference for multi-sport events needs a relook
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Watch, Asian Games highlights: India stun three-time champs Korea to make it to volleyball knockouts
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Asian Games, Boxing: Deepak Bhoria – once undernourished and counted out, now India’s best medal bet
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India at Asian Games 2022, live updates: India and Bangladesh remains 0-0 at HT in men’s football
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India at Asian Games, September 21 schedule: Women’s cricket team, football teams in action