From love songs to kurta ads, Urdu is popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva backers hate it so much?

Shoaib Daniyal

· Oct 24, 2021 · 09:00 am

‘Alipura’: A delightful romp in the Hindi heartland turns into a grim narrative of powerlessness

Saloni Sharma

· Oct 23, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Alipura’: The definitive novel of Bundelkhand, funny and tender, can now be read in English

Gyan Chaturvedi

· Sep 10, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India

Chandan Pandey

· Jul 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always

Namita Gokhale

· Jun 16, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’: Classic Hindi novel set in girls’ college gets English translation

Usha Priyamvada

· Jun 09, 2021 · 05:47 pm

Manzoor Ahtesham (1948-2021): Remembering the writer with his novel ‘The Tale of the Missing Man’

Manzoor Ahtesham

· May 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A forest has fallen silent in grief in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s eerie new novel in translation

Vinod Kumar Shukla

· Apr 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Should I first read to them the news or the poems’: Five poems by Kunwar Narain

Kunwar Narain

· Mar 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm

What happens to the family of a man arrested for murder? This Shrilal Shukla novel asks the question

Shrilal Shukla

· Mar 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Hindi writer Bhuwaneshwar has been largely forgotten. A new book of his stories revives his work

Bhuwaneshwar

· Mar 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Bhairavi’: A woman jumps from a train into a cremation ground to set up Shivani’s darkest novel

Shivani

· Jan 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This memoir reveals the struggle for rights that even affluent women in India have to go through

Anchita Ghatak

· Dec 20, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): ‘It’s my heart, not my feet, that’s traversing this vexed world’

Mangalesh Dabral

· Dec 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Corporate competition and Covid-19: Faizabad’s Hindi newspaper ‘Jan Morcha’ is fighting both

Valay Singh

· Nov 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

Are we in control? Or does something control us? Kunwar Narain’s stories ask this critical question

Sucharita Dutta-Asane

· Oct 31, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Hindi might not be the national language – but it is growing rapidly across India

Shoaib Daniyal

· Sep 19, 2020 · 09:00 am

Hindi publishing lost its way during the pandemic, but it knows how to find the route back

Aditi Maheshwari Goyal

· Sep 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

How much should people speaking other languages sacrifice for not knowing Hindi, asks HD Kumaraswamy

Scroll Staff

· Aug 24, 2020 · 02:50 pm

Twitter outrages as AYUSH secretary says those who don’t follow Hindi can leave doctors meet

Scroll Staff

· Aug 22, 2020 · 03:04 pm