Literature
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The first woman on the moon reached there in the 17th century – through a smash hit play
Sara Read and Catie Gill, The Conversation
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South Asian science-fiction is finally centrestage, bringing us closer to our own reality
Nudrat Kamal, Dawn.com
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How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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A literary agent lists ten books from outside the subcontinental mainstream we should be reading
Amish Raj Mulmi
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Bret Easton Ellis goes from cool social challenger to grumpy Gen-Xer in eight essays in his new book
Matt Graham, The Conversation
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The post-human identity of Elena Ferrante: An author who is both there and isn’t
Enrica Maria Ferrara, The Conversation
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On Franz Kafka’s 136th birth anniversary, he continues to show us how to fight for our freedom
Rohan Parikh
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To admire Daphne du Maurier, the novel we must read is not ‘Rebecca’ but ‘My Cousin Rachel’
Radhika Oberoi
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In ‘Babu Bangladesh!’, South Asian literature gets a wildly imaginative novel that defies genres
Numair Atif Choudhury
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This novel proves that the omniscient narrator is making a comeback to contemporary fiction
Julienne van Loon, The Conversation
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‘Ugra’: The Hindi writer whose provocative, satirical works had made him more popular than Premchand
Saudamini Deo
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‘The obduracy of women’: Why J Devika translated the works of K Saraswathi Amma from Malayalam
J Devika
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Why readers will almost never encounter anything like these two ‘anti-novels’ by Subimal Misra
Sayali Palekar
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Reading this epic novel is an immersive way of learning the history of Tibet
Rohan Parikh
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‘Basanti’: A classic but experimental Odia novel from the 1920s is reinvented in English translation
Tyagraj Thakur
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‘Celestial Bodies’: The Man Booker International Prize winner helps highlight writings by Arab women
Shadya Radhi, The Conversation
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Man Booker International Prize: The winning novel tells the story of modern Oman through one family
Jokha Alharthi
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Watch: On his 85th birthday, Ruskin Bond recounts anecdotes on reading as a child
Scroll Staff
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Imagine the finest of Maria Popova’s ‘brain pickings’ in a single book. ‘Figuring’ is more than that
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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Why India’s policymakers should read Premchand this election season
Swasti Pachauri