Six indie bookstores have founded an association of bookshops. What do they hope to achieve?

An interview with two of the founders of the Independent Bookshops Association of India, Leonard Fernandes and Raman Shresta.

Kanishka Gupta

· May 31, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Raya’: This biography of Krishnadevaraya is a love letter to the king from South India

Srinivas Reddy, who has also translated, the monarch’s epic poem from Telugu, is clearly a fan who has written a riveting life story.

Revanth Ukkalam

· May 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘In the Soil, a Tree’: Amid Covid-19 anxiety and news fatigue, a graphic story for our times

Artist Nikhila Nanduri seeks respite in a story about nature, an experience denied to most during the lockdown.

Nikhila Nanduri

· May 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Passing the pandemic with Pamuk: How to travel the world from one room during the lockdown

Even when you’re confined to your writing desk, your bookshelf will take you somewhere else altogether.

Pallavi Narayan

· May 30, 2020 · 12:30 pm

This translation of two of Chandrasekhara Kambar’s plays shows why his work is important

Krishna Manavalli has made the Kannada poet and playwright’s creations accessible to English language readers with great skill and finesse.

TP Ashoka

· May 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

Six poems that offer a virtual journey through Latin America in the age of the lockdown

An excerpt from ‘A-Z, The Alphabets of Latin America’, a collection of 108 poems by poet-diplomat Abhay K.

Abhay K

· May 29, 2020 · 05:30 pm

DC Books has shown how publishing and bookselling remained alive in Kerala during the lockdown

A first person account of how the company did it, and how Kerala’s history of literacy and love for literature contributed.

Ravi Deecee

· May 29, 2020 · 08:30 am

As the BJP tries to topple the Maharashtra government, this book recounts post-poll horse-trading

The events of 23 November 2019 were those of day 31 of the 36-day drama that led to a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government.

Kamlesh Sutar

· May 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Harry Potter-themed face mask shows the ‘Marauder's Map’ when you breathe through it

The magical Marauder’s Map in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series revealed itself to a select few.

Scroll Staff

· May 28, 2020 · 09:28 am

How does an author cope when a lockdown is declared as her book is about to be published?

Ira Mukhoty thought her biography of Akbar was all set to hit the stands. Then everything stopped, with no signs of quick resumption.

Ira Mukhoty

· May 28, 2020 · 08:30 am

A blueprint for creating new readers in the post-pandemic world (or, what publishers need to do)

To create a new generation of readers in India, we will need a new generation of books.

Durba Chattaraj

· May 27, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Erasure of the poor from the imagination’: Arundhati Roy on India’s migrant worker crisis

The author-activist spoke to historian and commentator Vijay Prashad in an interview to Newsclick.

Scroll Staff

· May 27, 2020 · 09:31 am