‘We have an assembly line approach to writing about books’: Anjum Hasan on literary criticism

How does a writer approach the art of reviewing books? An interview with an author who was also a literary editor.

Arunava Sinha

· Mar 16, 2019 · 08:30 am

New Year smiles: It’s a laugh riot when this Kiwi comedy duo relate a chance encounter in the park

Scroll staff pick videos that have tickled their funny bones.

Arunava Sinha

· Jan 01, 2019 · 06:00 am

Song for the New Year: ‘Teach Your Children’ holds the key to building a better tomorrow

Scroll staffers pick their favourite tunes.

Arunava Sinha

· Jan 01, 2018 · 10:00 am

Why we are welcoming 2017 with a sonnet (and more poetry) instead of the news

Happy New Year / let’s have no fear / of missing the news / let's court the muse.

Arunava Sinha

· Jan 01, 2017 · 12:00 am

This book links hate-filled tweets to right-wing political strategy and deep planning

Casual social media users should read Swati Chaturvedi's 'I Am A Troll' and then make up their minds.

Arunava Sinha

· Dec 30, 2016 · 08:30 am

Why we will not bring you a Best Books of the Year list in 2016 (and, possibly, ever again)

Comparisons are bad enough. To limit them to the year of publication of a book is capricious.

Arunava Sinha

· Dec 28, 2016 · 08:30 am

In a shock move, HarperCollins India publisher Karthika VK quits after ten years in the job

Conspiracy theories are easy to mount, but the move points to dramatic shifts in the business of publishing books.

Arunava Sinha

· Oct 25, 2016 · 12:12 pm

Benyamin's new story again disguises sociology as gripping fiction, but it's no 'Goat Days'

Still, the Malayalam writer has found the translator he deserves.

Arunava Sinha

· Sep 26, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Suketu Mehta has written a new story, and it's a frenetic mixture of memory and desire

The first new work from the author of ‘Maximum City’ in some time is an astonishing, if unidirectional, work of fiction.

Arunava Sinha

· Sep 06, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Why my love affair with Bengali short stories became a book

A new anthology makes the reckless claim of representing the ‘greatest stories’ in the language.

Arunava Sinha

· Apr 09, 2016 · 08:30 am

Are India's English writers getting better at writing in Indian?

New ways of using dialogue and the first person voice are finally making English an Indian language.

Arunava Sinha

· Mar 13, 2016 · 06:30 pm

Films that are 50: There are movies about the movies and then there is Satyajit Ray’s ‘Nayak’

Uttam Kumar plays a version of himself in a superior examination of the flip side of fame and glamour.

Arunava Sinha

· Jan 18, 2016 · 01:30 pm