Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo has won the Jnanpith Award 2021. His fiction shows why

An excerpt from the story ‘Illusion’, from ‘Mirage and Other Stories’, by Damodar Mauzo, translated from the Konkani by Vidya Pai.

Damodar Mauzo

· 8 hours ago

Modern institution or madrassa? One of the questions this history of Aligarh Muslim University asks

An excerpt from ‘Aligarh Muslim University: The Making of the Modern Indian Muslim’, by Mohammed Wajihuddin.

Mohammed Wajihuddin

· 17 hours ago

The other Dennis the Menace: The influence of this 70-year-old on everything from darts to raves

‘Beano’ magazine’s Dennis was not the Dennis the Menace of Hank Ketcham’s newspaper comic strip.

Julian Lawrence, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

Watch: How nine-year-old Anaik set up and runs his reading initiative for Covid-19 patients

‘Loving Library is basically just a mini library where hospitalised covid patients can read books to escape loneliness,’ Anaik told TV host Ellen DeGeneres.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 11:03 am

‘Our tenure won’t be long. We’ll go with one suitcase’: HD Deve Gowda on becoming Prime Minister

An excerpt from ‘Furrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of HD Deve Gowda’, by Sugata Srinivasaraju.

Sugata Srinivasaraju

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Why babies did not sleep away from their mothers for most of human history

An excerpt from ‘Sleeping Like a Baby’, by Himani Dalmia and Neha Bhatt.

Himani Dalmia

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Neha Bhatt

· Dec 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How PV Narasimha Rao and some of his ministers responded when the Babri Masjid was demolished

An excerpt from ‘Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in our Times’, by Salman Khurshid.

Salman Khurshid

· Dec 06, 2021 · 08:30 am

How to make sense of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s first novel in 48 years

The difficult and brilliant ‘Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth’ gives nothing away for free.

David Attwell, The Conversation

· Dec 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Sangita Jogi is part of a family of manual labourers. This is what the book of her art says

In ‘The Women I Could Be’, draws the lives she imagines.

Urvashi Butalia

· Dec 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Madhu Bhaduri’s ‘Lived Story’ is a compelling memoir of a woman diplomat in a male-dominated world

Rich with anecdotes, this is an account of a storied life in academia, the foreign service, and activism.

Harsh Mander

· Dec 05, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Paradise’: This novel of a young man’s journeys shows Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at his best

In colonial Africa, young Yusuf becomes a slave after he is pawned by his father.

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Swadesh Deepak’s ‘I Have Not Seen Mandu’ is an unflinching memoir of seven years of mental illness

Jerry Pinto has translated the memoir into English, which Deepak, who has been missing since 2006, called ‘the language of lies’.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Dec 04, 2021 · 12:30 pm