Literature
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The resurgence of religion has not come despite modernisation but because of it
Vikash Singh
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An (imaginary) opening lecture on Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Five Point Someone’ at a Delhi University college
Devapriya Roy
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How Robert Pirsig’s ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ changed the way I think
Girish Shahane
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Why this literary heroine could never chill, and why you shouldn’t either
Manasi Subramaniam
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Would human beings be happier if they became trees?
Shireen Quadri
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This Indian author wrote his stories in French. Is that why we don’t remember him?
Blake Smith
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The Partition fiction very few people read: The literature of displacement from Assam’s Barak Valley
Suranjana Choudhury
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Through more than 200 stories, Ashokamitran wrote the one big story in which we find ourselves
N Kalyan Raman
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Watch: What is poetry, exactly? Is an answer even possible?
Scroll Staff
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Fourteen Marathi classics, handpicked by Bhalchandra Nemade, that must be read (and translated)
Devapriya Roy
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‘My gurus demand I make no calculations about what is acceptable and what is offensive when I write'
Jerry Pinto
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If it wasn’t enough that Jhumpa Lahiri has translated this novel, it is also a response to Ferrante
Anu Kumar
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Elif Shafak’s new book gives Muslim women the novel they deserve (but it needs a second draft)
Sameen Borker
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What happens when a terminally ill man turns into his favourite heroes from fiction?
Evald Flisar
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Despite the guns, the roses still bloomed at the Karachi Literature Festival
Hani Yousuf
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The man who became a suitcase. The ‘fone’ that let people talk forever. The migrant who tried to fly
Anu Kumar
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Here’s a literary quiz: What’s common to Ladakhi, Kurukh, Halbi and Saurashtra?
Devapriya Roy
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‘No matter how serious your theme, the work should be entertaining.’
Shreya Ila Anasuya
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Away from clichéd pop imagination, Urdu is reclaiming its space (sometimes via other languages)
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Less creativity, more writing. This book has no-bullshit advice for creative writers
Amrita Kumar