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Jai Arjun Singh
Jai Arjun Singh is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’ is a classic coming-of-age novel of present day India
In Deepa Anappara’s wonderfully paced debut novel, a little boy goes ‘detectiving’ when children from his basti mysteriously start to disappear.
Jai Arjun Singh
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In Jeet Thayil’s ‘Low’, a man goes on a drug-addled Bombay odyssey after his wife’s suicide
A funny, sad, achingly alive novel.
Jai Arjun Singh
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Aruni Kashyap’s gentle stories depict Assamese characters trying to make sense of their world
This collection of short fiction flows easily between the personal and the political.
Jai Arjun Singh
Trending
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Supreme Court order allowing deportation of Rohingyas shows that India hasn’t shed Partition baggage
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India is running out of oxygen, Covid-19 patients are dying – because the government wasted time
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How a cryptocurrency exchange in Mumbai flourished despite RBI’s ban on virtual coins
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Lahore and Amritsar: Two cities joined at birth are dying together
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‘Ajeeb Daastaans’ review: One episode in the Netflix anthology film is worth the price of the rest
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The firepower of feminist fantasies is on full view in this anthology featuring ‘magical women’
Sukanya Venkatraghavan has edited a focussed yet wide-ranging anthology of stories about women with special powers who create, destroy and rebuild worlds.
Jai Arjun Singh
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How Mahasweta Devi’s historical romance, starring courtesans and thugs, was translated into English
An interview with Shamya Dasgupta, Devi’s nephew and the translator of ‘Mirror Of The Darkest Night’ (‘Laayl-e Aasmaaner Aayna’ in the original).
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HM Naqvi’s ambitious new novel has much to relish but its rambling narrative voice makes that hard
‘The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack’ is filled with memories of cosmopolitan Karachi and fascinating characters but reading it can be a drag.
Jai Arjun Singh
Video
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Hospitals out of beds, ministers pose with oxygen cylinders: Scenes from the Covid-19 crisis
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Watch: Heavy April snowfall covers Badrinath and higher parts of Uttarakhand
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Watch: Scenes from Prince Philip’s funeral following royal protocol (and physical distancing)
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Watch: Migrants throng Lucknow bus station to go back to their hometowns after lockdowns elsewhere
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Caught on camera: Tiger shark’s menacing pursuit of crocodile off the coast of Australia
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How do you turn train journeys in Paris and Mumbai into a book of poetry? Ask these poets
An interview with Karthika Naïr and Sampurna Chattarji, who collaborated on an innovative collection of poetry featuring trains – and each other’s lines.
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What does a 21st century feminist do when transported to King Vidyadhar’s 11th-century court?
After bringing Mahabharata characters to modern-day Delhi in her earlier novel, Trisha Das’s latest sends an archeologist a thousand years into the past.
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‘Increasingly, you can’t match the absurdist comedy going on around yourself’: Mohammed Hanif
Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif on his new novel ‘Red Birds’, featuring Muslim refugees, American pilots and a wise but depressed dog.
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The Reel
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Film flashback: In ‘Mississippi Masala’, migration, an inter-racial romance and the idea of home
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Tribute: Vivekh’s comedy captured the imagination of the urban youth
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‘Horror was my playground’: What it meant to be a member of the Ramsay film clan
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The final edition of the Rising Gardens festival has films about solidarity between women
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IFFLA 2021 programme includes ‘Fire in the Mountains’, ‘Biriyaani’, ‘Koozhangal’ and ‘Seththumaan’
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This account of Delhi’s meat industry is fact-filled and fascinating (but it may make you squirm)
‘Delhi’s Meatscapes’ is an informative and wide-ranging study of the Qureshi butchers and the trade, but also packed with annoying errors and poor writing.
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‘I wanted to write a Mahabharata novel that spoke about the nature of masculinity’
An interview with Aditya Iyengar, author of a rather unusual fiction series drawn from the epic.
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In this old-new book of two Telugu novellas, horse-men and Sanskrit scholars take on modernity
New translations of Telugu writer Viswanadha Satyanarayana’s ‘Ha Ha Hu Hu’ and ‘Vishnu Sharma Learns English’.
Jai Arjun Singh
The Field
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Tennis: Roger Federer confirms he will play French Open this year
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IPL 2021: ‘It’ll be fantastic’ – AB de Villiers hoping for SA comeback, form and fitness permitting
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Best win of my life so far: Tsitsipas downs Rublev in Monte Carlo final for first Masters 1000 title
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Wrestling Asian C’ships: Deepak Punia wins silver, Sanjeet bags bronze on final day in Almaty
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IPL 2021: AB de Villiers, Glenn Maxwell star as RCB remain unbeaten with win against KKR