Archana Venkatesan wins international translation award for her translation of 1102-verse Tamil poem

An excerpt from Archana Venkatesan’s translation of Nammāḻvār’s ‘Endless Song’ from Tamil, for which she has won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.

Nammāḻvār

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

Tejaswini Niranjana’s translation of ‘No Presents Please’ wins international translation award

An excerpt from Jayant Kaikini’s book, whose translation from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana has won the National Translation Award in the US for prose.

Jayant Kaikini

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

How a new theatre production pulls George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ into the era of Trumpism

This version adheres closely to Orwell’s text while simultaneously brimming with contemporary references.

Helen Trenos, The Conversation

· Oct 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘House Next to the Factory’: How to write readable stories where nothing much really ever happens

Sonal Kohli’s fiction is neither ‘character-driven’ nor ‘plot-driven’. Mostly it is not driven at all.

Sahana Hegde

· Oct 17, 2021 · 12:30 pm

The spirits in Manoj Das’s near-forgotten stories makes you wonder who the real ghosts are

The stories in ‘Farewell to a Ghost’ comprise a lament for the past.

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Oct 17, 2021 · 08:30 am

These books tell us why we ignore plants, and what we are missing out on as a result

Reading to fight plant bias with plant awareness.

Janice Pariat

· Oct 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Writing Pondicherry: Writers Ari Gautier and Ananya Jahanara Kabir in conversation

Gautier talks about his novel Le thinnai / The Thinnai and story collection Nocturne Pondichéry to Kabir, who is an academic.

Ari Gautier

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Ananya Jahanara Kabir

· Oct 16, 2021 · 12:30 pm

A mongoose detective peels back some of the layers of the natural world in this marvellous comic

Rohan Chakravarty’s ‘Ruddy Detective’ isn’t the sort who will dispense justice or play saviour if it means disrupting nature’s balance.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Oct 16, 2021 · 08:30 am

With Superman coming out as bisexual, the suppression of queer superheroes has finally ended

Queer representation has moved from the periphery to become just another component of a superhero’s identity.

Jason Bainbridge, The Conversation

· Oct 15, 2021 · 09:30 pm

‘I did not fall in love with my neighbour’s wife’: Ruskin Bond picks his best for a new collection

The story ‘His Neighbour’s Wife’, excerpted from ‘Writing for My Life: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond’.

Ruskin Bond

· Oct 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Amitav Ghosh’s new book uses the trajectory of a spice to chart colonial violence against the planet

An excerpt from Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’.

Amitav Ghosh

· Oct 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

These short stories by the author of ‘Babu Bangladesh’ portray many Bangladeshes

The short story ‘Thief’, from ‘Taxi Wallah and Other Stories’ by Numair Atif Choudhury.

Numair Atif Choudhury

· Oct 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm