In love with your superheroes? ‘The Boys’ graphic novel series shows you what they’re really up to

Here’s the original origin story of the breakthrough web series.

Nair DA

· An hour ago

Is the pandemic ensuring that the future of speculative fiction lies in today’s reality?

Recent and current books suggest present-day reality has already provided what fiction had speculated.

Tashan Mehta

· 10 hours ago

Why and how Jaswant Singh (1938-2020) left the Indian Army so that he could join politics

A former BJP politician and cabinet minister in the AB Vajpayee administration, Jaswant Singh died on Sunday at the age of 82. An excerpt from his 2006 memoir.

Jaswant Singh

· Yesterday · 01:47 pm

Ravi Shankar’s biographer Oliver Craske (rightly) foregrounds his music over his personal life

‘Indian Sun’ will prove difficult, if not impossible, to be matched.

Keshav Desiraju

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

The pandemic has brought people out on their bicycles. Are there books waiting to be written?

The author of a cycling memoir sees a hundred stories blooming from the increased use of bicycles during the pandemic.

Dominic Franks

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Can this artificial intelligence program replace writers, journalists and poets?

The language generated by GPT-3 sounds as if it had been written by a human.

Prasenjit Mitra, The Conversation

· Sep 26, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Is ‘Suhledev’ history, fiction, or myth? Amish’s new book deliberately blurs the question

Suheldev is essentially a swashbuckling medieval bad boy who is nevertheless up to much good.

Nikhil Govind

· Sep 26, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How Isher Judge Ahluwalia broke into the male-dominated, Anglicised world of economists

Vinay Sitapati reviews Isher Judge Ahluwalia’s memoir, ‘Breaking Through’.

Vinay Sitapati

· Sep 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘We have no long-term strategy to deal with Beijing’: Ananth Krishnan on India’s China challenge

The author of a new book on China speaks about the need for an honest national conversation in India about the LAC and much more.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Sep 26, 2020 · 06:30 am

JCB Prize: Deepa Anappara, Samit Basu, Dharini Bhaskar, S Hareesh, Annie Zaidi make the shortlist

The winner of the Rs 25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 will be announced on November 7.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 25, 2020 · 11:15 am

Lockdown musings: Ritu Menon reflects on the past and broods over the future of her publishing life

The founder of Women Unlimited has been writing a journal through the pandemic. Here are some excerpts.

Ritu Menon

· Sep 25, 2020 · 08:30 am

The classroom and the ear: How the pandemic forced a writer to come out about his hearing disorder

Moving from the classroom to online teaching left writer Deepak Unnikrishnan with no option but to talk about his problem.

Deepak Unnikrishnan

· Sep 24, 2020 · 05:30 pm