Hindi
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Hindi memoir: An excerpt from ‘Maine Mandu Nahin Dekha’ by Swadesh Deepak
Swadesh Deepak
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Translated into Hindi: An excerpt from ‘Ambedkar: Ek Jeevan’ by Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor Amresh Dwivedi
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Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Ek Desh, Barah Duniya’ by Shirish Khare
Shirish Khare
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‘Treasurer of Piggy Banks’: The cosmic and the planetary in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s poetry
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Fiction: What will ‘Mohammadiya Hindu’ Ashiq Miyan do when LK Advani’s Ram rath arrives in Aramganj?
Rakesh Kayasth Varsha Tiwary
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How poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan coined the term ‘Videsh Mantralaya’ (which impressed PM Nehru)
Kallol Bhattacharjee
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Fiction: A Dalit lecturer at a Delhi college wonders if he can be ‘middle-class’ despite his caste
Ajay Navaria Nita Kumar
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‘Birth alone is a harsh prison’: Read Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori’s verses translated into English
Leeladhar Jagoori Matt Reeck
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‘I believe in neither government reports nor happy literature’: A writer-translator conversation
Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: In Geetanjali Shree’s ‘The Roof Beneath Their Feet’, women defy definitions
Sayari Debnath
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Short fiction: Riddled with debt, a farmer urges the PM to change the formula for compound interest
Chandan Pandey Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: The body of a young woman, her insides split open, is found inside a farmhouse near Delhi
Anjali Deshpande
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‘Ma is Scared’: Anjali Kajal’s short stories step into the lives of ordinary women in northern India
Areeb Ahmad
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Translated short fiction: A woman plunges into panic and depression after reading the newspaper
Anjali Kajal Kavita Bhanot
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This short story by Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ questions the ideals of marriage and love
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala Gautam Choubey
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‘Under the Night Jasmine’: In the isolation of the pandemic, a writer finds his story – and himself
Divya Aslesha
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Watch: Singer reimagines theme music of Oscar-winning film ‘La La Land’ with Hindi lyrics
Scroll Staff
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‘The Chandayan’: The 14th-century Sufi romance brought to life by a new translation and essays
Rana Safvi
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‘A Bird On My Windowsill’: Actor-writer Manav Kaul’s book is an introspective guide for every artist
Sharmistha Jha
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Ajanta Deo’s Hindi novel ‘Kharij Log’ is an urgent quest to unravel what it means to belong
Arundhati Ghosh