Completing school board exams in July will put students at great risk of infection. Why do it?

The growth rate of Covid-19 cases is expected to continue to rise through July.

Arunava Sinha

· Jun 15, 2020 · 06:30 am

‘I even dream in Hinglish’: Meet the Asia winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

An interview with Kritika Pandey from Ranchi, Jharkhand, who is now in the running for the overall prize.

Arunava Sinha

· Jun 06, 2020 · 07:30 am

Why India needs an all-party government of unity to weather its worst crisis since Independence

No party or political formation can possibly have all the talent needed to steer the nation through this extreme emergency. The net has to be cast wider.

Arunava Sinha

· Apr 01, 2020 · 07:30 am

Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Gun Island’ is fiction for a new world. It cannot be judged by old standards

Climate change, present and past, is the glue in this novel, sticking together different geographies – and histories – around the world.

Arunava Sinha

· Jul 08, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘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