Interview: Vikramajit Ram, author of ‘Mansur’, shortlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature

This is the fifth and final of the Scroll Books and Ideas video interviews with the shortlisted authors and translators of the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Nov 14, 2023 · 11:00 am

‘Hurda’ interrogates circumstances that make misogynistic tragedies possible, and forgotten

Atharva Pandit’s ‘Hurda’ presents a clear-eyed view of the rot in our systems alone.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Nov 12, 2023 · 07:30 am

Interview: 2023 JCB Prize shortlisted author Manoj Rupda and translator Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

On ‘I Named My Sister Silence’: The second of the Scroll Books and Ideas video interviews with the shortlisted authors and translators of the 2023 JCB Prize.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Nov 11, 2023 · 11:00 am

Interview: Tejaswini Apte-Rahm, author of ‘The Secret of More’, shortlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize

This is the first of the Scroll Books and Ideas video interviews with the shortlisted authors and translators of the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Nov 10, 2023 · 11:00 am

‘Fire on the Ganges’: What life in Varanasi is like for the Doms who dispose of corpses

Transgressions are costly and tricky matrices of caste and gender are punitive. The Doms of Banaras continue to pay a heavy price to simply live.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Nov 04, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘My book isn’t rock-n-roll. I wanted to imitate Chopin’s minimalism’: Geet Chaturvedi on ‘Simsim’

The tenth and final in the series of podcast interviews with the authors and translators longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Oct 13, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘I studied miniatures and the faces in them’: Vikramajit Ram on how he wrote ‘Mansur’

The fifth in the series of podcast interviews with the authors and translators longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Oct 08, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘Simsim’: A moving story of loss and the many ways we negotiate with it in order to live

Geet Chaturvedi’s description of the fanaticism and violence that marked the Partition is unembellished and chilly in its distance.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Oct 07, 2023 · 02:30 pm

‘It’s fascinating...people in Bombay are never content’: Tejaswini Apte-Rahm on ‘The Secret of More’

The fourth in the series of podcast interviews with the authors and translators longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Oct 07, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘Heart Tantrums’: A memoir about a troubled marriage lays out the compromises of womanhood

In writing about her life, Aisha Sarwari puts away every label of good and bad and labels them as mundanities. And even as miracles.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Oct 07, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Mansur’: A novel about beauty that is as rich and tender as precious silk

Vikramajit Ram lets the characters peek, linger, and sometimes reluctantly look away. He lets them live.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Sep 30, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘The East Indian’: This novel about an Indian indentured labourer has more scale than depth

Brinda Chary’s book is the exploration of the author’s interest in the history of migration and settlement in the 1600s first, and a novel, second.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Aug 12, 2023 · 01:30 pm