Ruskin Bond, 88: This book brings together his best short stories from the 21st century

The story ‘Chocolates At Midnight,’ an excerpt from ‘Song of the Forest: Tales From Here, There and Everywhere’.

Ruskin Bond

· 4 hours ago

‘I am writing limericks and the other day I had a lollipop after seventy years’: Ruskin Bond at 88

An interview with the beloved children’s writer on turning 88 and a publishing career of over seventy years. Ruskin Bond was born on May 19, 1934.

Sayari Debnath

· 13 hours ago

2022 International Booker Prize: What the six shortlisted translators have to say about their books

Translators Daisy Rockwell, Anton Hur, Frances Riddle, Jennifer Croft, Sam Bett and David Boyd, and Damion Searls are in the running to win the prize.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

A new book featuring Urdu writer Joginder Paul combines his own work with writings about him

An excerpt from ‘A Caravan of Memories’, translated by Girija Sharma, from ‘Joginder Paul: The Writerly Writer’, edited by Chandana Dutta.

Joginder Paul

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

‘Heartland’: A new book explores love in the time of millennials and Generation Z

Drawing on extensive research into more than 100 ‘heart-scapes’, author Jennifer Pinkerton’s findings break new ground in an old landscape.

Elizabeth Reid Boyd, The Conversation

· May 17, 2022 · 05:30 pm

How Ashok Kumar learned to ‘open his heart through his eyes’

A reissued biography reveals Ashok Kumar’s early years as a reluctant actor in Hindi films produced by the Bombay Talkies studio.

Nabendu Ghosh

· May 17, 2022 · 10:30 am

A senior advocate offers a humorous look at the secretive world of lawyers

An excerpt from ‘How Gourango Lost His O’, by Sanjoy Ghose.

Sanjoy Ghose

· May 17, 2022 · 08:30 am

Easterine Kire’s new novel riffs on a Chang Naga legend of sudden darkness descending on the land

An excerpt from ‘Spirit Nights’, by Easterine Kire.

Easterine Kire

· May 16, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Your statement has been written in haste’: Letters between Mahatma Gandhi and his son Devadas

An excerpt from ‘Scorching Love: Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to his son Devadas’, by Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Tridip Suhrud.

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

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Tridip Suhrud

· May 16, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Second wave of Covid was 26/11 of health system’: Barkha Dutt talks to Suketu Mehta about her book

Barkha Dutt’s book ‘To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid’ was published in February, 2022.

Scroll Staff

· May 15, 2022 · 10:50 pm

‘We come to wait for the names of the fallen’: Five poems, political and personal, by Sabitha Satchi

Excerpts from ‘Hereafter’, Sabitha Satchi’s latest collection of poetry.

Sabitha Satchi

· May 15, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Yakshi’: This short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James is a sensual parable for our times

Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.

VJ James

· May 15, 2022 · 12:30 pm