Hindi
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How TV scriptwriter Sanjeev Paliwal has revived Hindi crime fiction with ‘Naina’ and ‘Pishach’
Maneesha Taneja
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From love songs to kurta ads, Urdu is popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva backers hate it so much?
Shoaib Daniyal
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‘Alipura’: A delightful romp in the Hindi heartland turns into a grim narrative of powerlessness
Saloni Sharma
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‘Alipura’: The definitive novel of Bundelkhand, funny and tender, can now be read in English
Gyan Chaturvedi
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‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India
Chandan Pandey
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‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always
Namita Gokhale
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‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’: Classic Hindi novel set in girls’ college gets English translation
Usha Priyamvada
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Manzoor Ahtesham (1948-2021): Remembering the writer with his novel ‘The Tale of the Missing Man’
Manzoor Ahtesham
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A forest has fallen silent in grief in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s eerie new novel in translation
Vinod Kumar Shukla
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‘Should I first read to them the news or the poems’: Five poems by Kunwar Narain
Kunwar Narain
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What happens to the family of a man arrested for murder? This Shrilal Shukla novel asks the question
Shrilal Shukla
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Hindi writer Bhuwaneshwar has been largely forgotten. A new book of his stories revives his work
Bhuwaneshwar
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‘Bhairavi’: A woman jumps from a train into a cremation ground to set up Shivani’s darkest novel
Shivani
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This memoir reveals the struggle for rights that even affluent women in India have to go through
Anchita Ghatak
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Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): ‘It’s my heart, not my feet, that’s traversing this vexed world’
Mangalesh Dabral
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Corporate competition and Covid-19: Faizabad’s Hindi newspaper ‘Jan Morcha’ is fighting both
Valay Singh
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Are we in control? Or does something control us? Kunwar Narain’s stories ask this critical question
Sucharita Dutta-Asane
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Hindi might not be the national language – but it is growing rapidly across India
Shoaib Daniyal
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Hindi publishing lost its way during the pandemic, but it knows how to find the route back
Aditi Maheshwari Goyal
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How much should people speaking other languages sacrifice for not knowing Hindi, asks HD Kumaraswamy
Scroll Staff