Literature
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Locked down, born again: Covid-19 and the search for Indian Francophone literature
Ari Gautier
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More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan
Siok Sian Pek-Dorji
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When there is so much darkness in the world, should it really be kept out of children’s books?
Bijal Vachharajani
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Literary awards: How the pandemic is changing the nature of prizes and prizewinning books
Surina Narula
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What Gurdial Singh’s fiction reveals about the social and cultural roots of the farmers’ protest
Madhav Nayar
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How the Bangalore Literature Festival 2020 was held neither online nor on-ground, but in both forms
Shinie Antony
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How do you run India’s biggest literary prize, the JCB Prize for Literature, in a pandemic year?
Mita Kapur
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How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
Murali Ranganathan
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Weekend Quiz: Which 4th-century epic Sanskrit drama does this mural portray?
The Heritage Lab
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Why Premchand said, ‘The ascent of literature is the ascent of a nation’
Premchand
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Exiled and distanced from its home, Tibetan writing has long reflected the spirit of the pandemic
Kaushik Barua
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Litfests: Sponsors and participants should both know there are always strings attached
Arundhati Ghosh
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Why do the rich and the powerful sponsor literature festivals, prizes, and art in today’s world?
Annie Zaidi
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An anthology shows us how the Jallianwala Bagh massacre is reimagined by the creative imagination
Salil Misra
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‘Shuggie Bain’: Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize winning novel is written with heart, and heartbreaking
Shuma Raha
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize: Here are the six books on the New India Foundation shortlist
Scroll Staff
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Sixty years of the ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trial: A court case that defined free expression
Lois Bibbings, The Conversation
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S Hareesh wins Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 for ‘Moustache’
Scroll Staff
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Weekend Quiz: Who composed the Hindavi Sufi romance, Mrigavati?
The Heritage Lab
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JCB Prize 2020: What the shortlisted authors told one another when they met for the first time
Scroll Staff