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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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Supreme Court to hear petition seeking lifetime ban on convicts contesting elections
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‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ review: Faithful ‘Forrest Gump’ remake has its big-hearted moments
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19 workers fled Arunachal border road project. Only 10 survived. Their ordeal tells a larger story
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Manusmriti gives respectable position to Indian women, says Delhi HC judge Prathiba M Singh
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‘Raksha Bandhan’ review: An outdated ode to brotherly love
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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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View from the Mumbai Metro: Massive traffic congestion on the Western Express Highway
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Watch: BJP workers clash with one another during ‘tiranga yatra’ in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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Watch: Church bells chime tunes from ‘Grease’ as tribute to Olivia Newton-John in the Netherlands
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Watch: Muharram participant sings ‘Mahabharat’ show title song during procession in MP
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‘I took off as Bihar’s industry minister, when I landed I wasn’t’: BJP leader on changes in Patna
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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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‘House of Hammer’ trailer: Docuseries explores alleged abuse by Armie Hammer and his family legacy
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‘Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach’ trailer: Pankaj Tripathi’s lawyer represents a murder accused
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‘Raksha Bandhan’ review: An outdated ode to brotherly love
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‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ review: Faithful ‘Forrest Gump’ remake has its big-hearted moments
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Watch: Teaser of Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’ is out
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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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India tour of Zimbabwe: KL Rahul cleared to play, named captain of ODI squad
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Chess Olympiad: Harika Dronavalli reflects on clinching a historic bronze while nine months pregnant
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Watch: Harry Kane, England and Tottenham star, takes on a six-hitting challenge during The Hundred
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CWG 2022, Athletics: Avinash Sable-led track and field contingent shines in Neeraj Chopra’s absence
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Watch: Serena Williams’ farewell speech at Toronto Masters– ‘I am terrible at goodbyes’