What makes Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ an enduring favourite over nearly 100 years?

Antonia Pont, The Conversation

· Dec 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A Malayalam novel and a Telugu play went deep into South India’s caste question in the 19th century

Rajmohan Gandhi

· Dec 10, 2018 · 08:30 am

Why do so few Indian authors write novels about terrorism, asks a writer

Sirsho Bandopadhyay

· Dec 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This Bengali radio show’s storytelling skills could put even Netflix in the shade

Preetha Banerjee

· Dec 05, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Did Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking ‘Things Fall Apart’ subvert colonial structures – or uphold them?

Sarah Jilani, The Conversation

· Dec 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How the popularity of veganism might change the language used in fiction

Shareena Z Hamzah, The Conversation

· Nov 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

#MeToo: How can literature (and publishers) respond to the problems of gender and power?

Jenny Bhatt

· Nov 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How ‘Little Women’ was shaped by the stifling principles of Louisa May Alcott’s father

Ryna Ordynat, The Conversation

· Nov 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The German book of ghost stories that inspired Mary Shelley to write ‘Frankenstein’

Fabio Camilletti, The Conversation

· Nov 06, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Cosmopolitician’: Eight poems by Mustansir Dalvi that merge dreams and reality

Mustansir Dalvi

· Nov 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Milkman’: This year’s Man Booker winner ensures we do not underestimate ourselves as readers

Sana Goyal

· Nov 03, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Radicalism isn’t a fever or a rash. You don’t wake up with it one morning’: Novelist Fatima Bhutto

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 03, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘Jasmine Days’ by Benyamin, a novel in translation, wins the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature

Scroll Staff

· Oct 24, 2018 · 10:30 pm

These videos tell stories about each of the five novels shortlisted for the JCB Prize

Scroll Staff

· Oct 21, 2018 · 01:00 pm

Man Booker Prize 2018: Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’, but big publishers are the real victors

Leigh Wilson, The Conversation

· Oct 20, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Is a novel worth reading just because it’s on the Man Booker Prize shortlist?

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Sep 30, 2018 · 08:30 am

Why are many Bengali rhymes and songs for children, loved by generations, so misogynistic?

Dipika Mukherjee

· Sep 29, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Vishnu Khare (1940-2018) influenced Hindi literature hugely with what he wrote and what he taught

Prachand Praveer

· Sep 22, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Do we really understand the minds of others? Fiction writers do not give us much hope that we do

Kanta Dihal, Aeon

· Sep 21, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Interview: Can the famed ‘little magazine’ culture of Bengali literature thrive in the digital age?

Chandrima Pal

· Sep 15, 2018 · 12:30 pm