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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a regular Scroll.in contributor

Fiction in translation: In the forests, a man looks for his sister, who left home to join Maoists

An excerpt from ‘I Named My Sister Silence’, by Manoj Rupda, translated from the Hindi by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.

Manoj Rupda
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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Jun 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm
‘Two and a Half Rivers’: A moving novel of caste discrimination and isolation in Punjab

Anirudh Kala’s book is an account of the caste system, loneliness, and mental health.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Apr 02, 2022 · 12:30 pm
This novel brings Burma to readers so authentically that it could have been non-fiction

The political is presented through the personal in Eugene Lawrence’s informative novel from, and of, Burma before it became Myanmar.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Mar 01, 2020 · 06:30 pm

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