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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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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.
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This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India
‘Nowhere People’, Sabitri Roy’s Bengali novel from 1972 now translated into English is an important fictional document of the influx into independent India.
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Raga Heartbreak: Singer Shubha Mudgal’s stories from the world of music are fine-tuned to loss
The stories in ‘Looking for Miss Sargam’ are subtle performances of disappointment as a life-changer.
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Trending
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How BJP leaders responded to the Arnab Goswami WhatsApp leaks plus nine more weekend reads
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‘Please don’t follow me now’: Actor Rhea Chakraborty asks paparazzi when spotted in Mumbai
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The Political Fix: What BJP’s rejected offer to suspend farm laws tells us about Modi’s tactics
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The mass radicalisation that India does not acknowledge
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There is not a Virender Sehwag in that current team; India are very, very patient: Graeme Swann
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A Norwegian biographer writes movingly of his Goan father, who was largely a stranger to him
In ‘A Stranger At My Table’, Norwegian-Goan author Ivo de Figueiredo applies his biography-writing skills to his own family with striking results.
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Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land
‘We are told / that historians call us / other people’.
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A young doctor negotiates love, sexuality and family in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s new novel
In this excerpt from ‘My Father’s Garden’, the unnamed protagonist struggles with his growing feelings of love for a fellow medical student.
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Video
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‘This Land’s Not Your Land’: Indigenous artiste responds to classic American song with own rendition
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Watch: Angry haircut boy Anushrut is back throwing another adorable tantrum during a new haircut
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Watch: Mountaineers sing the national anthem of Nepal as they reach the summit of K2
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Watch: Cat, (fearing an accident?), stops child from grabbing balcony railing
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‘Daddy, tie my shoelace’: Former South African cricketer Graeme Smith’s son crashes live interview
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Why a journalist wrote about the Niyamgiri agitation in the form of a Young Adult novel
An interview with the author of ‘Year of the Weeds’, a fictionalised telling of the Niyamgiri agitation in Odisha should be read by adults as well.
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‘It is the story of India itself’: Abdullah Khan on a debut novel that was 20 years in the making
An interview with the author of ‘Patna Blues’, a novel about a lower-middle class Muslim family in small-town Bihar.
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This Patna novel is not just about differences and disappointments, it’s a tribute to the ’90s
Abdullah Khan’s ‘Patna Blues’ tells of the aspirations, disappointments and desires of a once prosperous Muslim family in Bihar.
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The Reel
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Watch: ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ set for March 26 release
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Book excerpt: When NT Rama Rao became the first Indian chief minister to act in a movie
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Zeb Bangash on the Bollywood cover of ‘Bibi Sanam’: ‘A disservice to the song’s meaning’
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Why Malayalam breakout film ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ is ‘the story of most Indian women’
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‘Metro Park 2’ trailer: The NRI Patels from New Jersey is back
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Real life is often magical for the Lotha tribe of Nagaland, as this collection of folk tales reveals
Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton’s ‘A Girl Swallowed By A Tree’ is a reminder of why oral folk tales must be preserved. They document a history of the imagination.
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Easterine Kire’s new novel is about magic. No, about the supernatural. No, about something else
A deceptively simple fable leads readers through complex possibilities.
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Sadness is devastatingly beautiful in Anees Salim’s new novel (or is it his imagined life?)
A dying man teaches his son to walk alone so that he can hold the family together afterwards.
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The Field
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Premier League: Chelsea sack head coach Frank Lampard after recent slump in form
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Hockey: Indian women’s team go down to Argentina B in second straight loss on tour
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Cricket: Bouncers against players under 18 years of age should be banned, says concussion specialist
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NBA wrap: Leonard scores 34 as Clippers stretch win streak to seven games
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England in India: Root and Co will get three days to train before first Test in Chennai