‘Song of the Soil’ author Chuden Kabimo on how right-wing moves disturbed the peace in Darjeeling

Kabimo’s novel, longlisted for the JCB Prize, presents the political movement for Gorkhaland through fiction.

Chuden Kabimo

· 11 hours ago

‘Blackly comic, really artful’: What Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) told BBC about her favourite novel

The British author, who died on 22 September 2022, at the age of 70, revealed that ‘Good Behaviour’ by Molly Keane was her favourite book.

Scroll Staff

· 14 hours ago

‘Stories of the True’: This collection of Jeyamohan’s stories in translation is rooted in real life

The author persona often appears in the stories, acting as observer, interlocutor, and chronicler.

Saloni Sharma

· 16 hours ago

Should Salman Rushdie get the Nobel Prize for literature in 2022?

After the attempt to murder him in August 2022, several writers and critics believe the time is ripe for the award that has long eluded him.

R Raj Rao

· 20 hours ago

A grieving child. A mysterious colony. A lurking menace. Will 9-year-old Varun survive the threats?

An excerpt from ‘The Colony of Shadows’, by Bikram Sharma.

Bikram Sharma

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

Book excerpt: Former Vice President M Hamid Ansari on the importance of free media in a democracy

An excerpt from ‘Challenges to A Liberal Polity: Human Rights, Citizenship and Identity’, by M Hamid Ansari.

M Hamid Ansari

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Fiction: Caught between its Nizam and independent India, what price did the state of Hyderabad pay?

An excerpt from ‘Hyderabad: Book II of The Partition Trilogy’, by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar.

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Sep 22, 2022 · 05:30 pm

A new book restores Maharaja Sir Madhava Rao’s treatise on statecraft, the first one in Modern India

An excerpt from the Introduction of ‘The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao’s Hints on the Art and Science of Government’, edited by Rahul Sagar.

Rahul Sagar

· Sep 22, 2022 · 08:30 am

Written from Draupadi’s perspective, this novel is an alternative retelling of the ‘Mahabharata’

An excerpt from ‘Draupadi’, by Koral Dasgupta.

Koral Dasgupta

· Sep 21, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Imran Khan wrongly claimed that Taliban is ‘Pashtun nationalist’. How did this affect the Pashtuns?

An excerpt from ‘The Pashtuns A Contested History’, by Tilak Devasher.

Tilak Devasher

· Sep 21, 2022 · 08:30 am

Historians in Calcutta begin a modern-day search for the lost jewel, Aasma-i-Noor, in this novel

An excerpt from ‘Aasma-i-Noor: The Cursed Jewel’, by Sudipta Sen Gupta.

Sudipta Sen Gupta

· Sep 20, 2022 · 05:30 pm

A new book examines how tuberculosis affects marginalised populations, including transgender people

An excerpt from ‘Lives on The Edge : Tuberculosis in Marginalised Populations’, by Radheshyam Jadhav.

Radheshyam Jadhav

· Sep 20, 2022 · 08:30 am