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Kanishka Gupta
Kanishka Gupta is a regular Scroll.in contributor
Why (and how) a food delivery company expanded its service into taking books to customers
An interview with Vivek Sunder, COO, Swiggy, on his company’s foray into book delivery during the pandemic.
Kanishka Gupta
&
Amish Raj Mulmi
· Aug 26, 2020 · 08:30 am
How the New India Foundation is dealing with the pandemic for its fellowships for non-fiction books
An interview with NIF trustee Srinath Raghavan.
Kanishka Gupta
· Aug 16, 2020 · 08:30 am
‘Reading helps cope with stress and provides creative solutions in the uncertain times of Covid-19’
An interview with psychiatrist Shyam Bhat on the importance of books and reading during the pandemic.
Kanishka Gupta
&
Neelini Sarkar
· Jul 05, 2020 · 03:30 pm
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Yesterday · 09:00 am
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Yesterday · 09:26 am
Why foreign countries (including India) are jostling to set up military bases in Africa
Yesterday · 11:30 pm
Why are they going after Bollywood?
Sep 25, 2020 · 06:30 am
Fifty years after shooting The Beatles in India, Paul Saltzman is out with a film on the encounter
Yesterday · 02:30 pm
How this independent bookshop in Toronto weathered the lockdown has lessons for India’s bookstores
An interview with Anjula Gogia, events coordinator at Another Story Bookshop.
Kanishka Gupta
,
Neelini Sarkar
&
Meenakshi Alimchandani
· Jul 02, 2020 · 08:30 am
While the pandemic forces publishers to slow down, this literary journal is relaunching itself
Why did two of the four original founders of ‘nether’ choose this time? What do they hope to achieve? An interview.
Kanishka Gupta
· Jun 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Six indie bookstores have founded an association of bookshops. What do they hope to achieve?
An interview with two of the founders of the Independent Bookshops Association of India, Leonard Fernandes and Raman Shresta.
Kanishka Gupta
· May 31, 2020 · 05:30 pm
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Yesterday · 05:04 pm
Eco India, Episode 83: With modern society becoming more urbanised, what is the future of forests?
Yesterday · 03:25 pm
Watch: When SP Balasubrahmanyam surprised a fan who lost his eyesight in a bomb explosion
Yesterday · 02:04 pm
‘The world has become zero’: Film composer Ilaiyaraaja expresses his grief for SP Balasubrahmanyam
Yesterday · 01:09 pm
The Art of Solitude: Hope-greetings in the times of Covid-19
‘Hope you’re numbers-estimates-targets-toll unnotching / Hope you’re purposefully delaying...’
Kanishka Gupta
· Apr 02, 2020 · 11:30 am
Could the coronavirus pandemic lock down Indian publishing for some time?
Online and brick-and-mortar retailers have cut back drastically on orders as customer footfalls and sales dwindle.
Kanishka Gupta
· Mar 21, 2020 · 11:30 am
‘Babu Bangladesh’: A literary agent remembers the making of a debut novel – and its author’s death
Published after the tragic death of its author Numair Choudhury, ‘Babu Bangladesh’ is the only posthumous debut to be shortlisted for a literary prize in India.
Kanishka Gupta
· Nov 09, 2019 · 08:30 am
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Yesterday · 02:30 pm
SP Balasubrahmanyam remembered: ‘There is no death, he is already so much a part of us’
Yesterday · 10:30 am
SP Balasubrahmanyam (1946-2020): His heavenly voice will echo through the ages
Sep 25, 2020 · 02:00 pm
‘Tehran’ review: A covert Mossad operation in Iran goes awry
Sep 25, 2020 · 12:45 pm
‘Ginny Weds Sunny’ trailer: Arranged versus love marriage in Vikrant Massey-Yami Gautam comedy
Sep 25, 2020 · 12:00 pm
The flag-bearers of verse: How five independent presses publish poetry in India
From how poetry collections are selected and edited to how they are marketed and distributed, five publishers reveal everything you need to know.
Kanishka Gupta
· Oct 14, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Eye on the prize: This list of Indian literary awards for books in English is a long and varied one
There are in fact a surprisingly large number of prizes for books written in, or translated into, English.
Kanishka Gupta
· Sep 23, 2018 · 08:30 am
‘We have to seek the outlier, not the mainstream writer’: Arshia Sattar on judging literary prizes
An interview with the writer-translator-scholar who has probably been on more literary prize juries than anyone else in India.
Kanishka Gupta
· Sep 02, 2018 · 12:30 pm
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Yesterday · 11:13 pm
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Yesterday · 10:42 pm
French Open 2020: Going to be extra careful of hitting a tennis ball around the court, says Djokovic
Yesterday · 10:15 pm
IPL 2020: Learnt the art of valuing teammates from Ricky Ponting, says Rohit Sharma
Yesterday · 09:42 pm
French Open 2020: ‘Not at 100% physically’ but Serena Williams is pretty confident of performing
Yesterday · 09:18 pm
