Hindi
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Literary history: Maulana Daud’s ‘Candayan’ and the beginnings of writing and literature in Hindi
Tyler W Williams
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The storm still gathers: Remembering Vaidyanath Mishra, aka Nagarjun, the people’s poet
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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Fiction: A man revives an old library. Then, one night, he is stabbed to death. Who did it? Why?
Udayan Vajpeyi Poonam Saxena
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From the memoir: Journalist-activist Seema Azad writes about the children she met in prison
Seema Azad Shailza Sharma
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‘Courtesans Don’t Read Newspapers’: Anil Yadav’s stories of the Hindi heartland cause shock and rage
Sayari Debnath
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A businessman’s personal life is marked by confusing sexuality in this Hindi novel from 1966
Rajkamal Choudhary Mahua Sen
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Hindi should become language of science, technology and judiciary: Amit Shah
Scroll Staff
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Translated short fiction: Old Hindi songs remind RJ Saheb of the years that have sped by
Anil Yadav Vaibhav Sharma
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‘The translator runs vagabond on a taut rope’: A new book of 21st-century Hindi poems in translation
Vishnu Khare Tanuj Solanki Uday Prakash Carol Blaizy D’souza Gagan Gill Vidya Bhandarkar Mahesh Verma Tuhin Bhowal Parwati Tirkey Dibyajyoti Sarma Nirmala Putul Nidhi Singh
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‘A Glimpse of My Life’ by Ram Prasad Bismil: A moving autobiography of a young revolutionary
Salil Misra
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At the heart of Maharashtra’s Marathi push back is a debate over Indian identity
Mandar Oak, The University of Adelaide
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Valley of Words Book Awards announces its 2025 shortlists across eight categories
Scroll Staff
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‘A New World Romance’: Schism between mind and soul forms the crux of this modern meditation on love
Sonakshi Srivastava
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How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages
Ghazala Wahab
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‘Dukh ki Duniya Bhitar Hai’: In writer Jey Sushil’s memoir, an intimate republic and a sense of loss
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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Rajasthan police told to remove Urdu, Persian words from official documents, replace them with Hindi
Scroll Staff
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‘Roti Ke Chaar Harf’: Hindi short stories speak poignantly of love and many forms of disappointments
Meenakshi Jha
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Readers’ comments: Scroll is just a vanity project
Scroll
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Hindi: The ‘national language’ that marginalises its own
Charu Singh
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From the autobiography: What Ram Prasad Bismil wrote in secret about his life while on death row
Ram Prasad Bismil Awadhesh Tripathi