This Indian author wrote his stories in French. Is that why we don’t remember him?

Blake Smith

· Apr 01, 2017 · 09:30 am

The Partition fiction very few people read: The literature of displacement from Assam’s Barak Valley

Suranjana Choudhury

· Mar 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Through more than 200 stories, Ashokamitran wrote the one big story in which we find ourselves

N Kalyan Raman

· Mar 25, 2017 · 06:30 am

Watch: What is poetry, exactly? Is an answer even possible?

Scroll Staff

· Mar 22, 2017 · 08:00 pm

Fourteen Marathi classics, handpicked by Bhalchandra Nemade, that must be read (and translated)

Devapriya Roy

· Mar 19, 2017 · 03:30 pm

‘My gurus demand I make no calculations about what is acceptable and what is offensive when I write'

Jerry Pinto

· Mar 19, 2017 · 07:30 am

If it wasn’t enough that Jhumpa Lahiri has translated this novel, it is also a response to Ferrante

Anu Kumar

· Mar 18, 2017 · 06:00 am

Elif Shafak’s new book gives Muslim women the novel they deserve (but it needs a second draft)

Sameen Borker

· Mar 11, 2017 · 08:30 am

What happens when a terminally ill man turns into his favourite heroes from fiction?

Evald Flisar

· Mar 05, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Despite the guns, the roses still bloomed at the Karachi Literature Festival

Hani Yousuf

· Mar 05, 2017 · 08:30 am

The man who became a suitcase. The ‘fone’ that let people talk forever. The migrant who tried to fly

Anu Kumar

· Mar 05, 2017 · 06:30 am

Here’s a literary quiz: What’s common to Ladakhi, Kurukh, Halbi and Saurashtra?

Devapriya Roy

· Mar 04, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘No matter how serious your theme, the work should be entertaining.’

Shreya Ila Anasuya

· Feb 26, 2017 · 07:00 am

Away from clichéd pop imagination, Urdu is reclaiming its space (sometimes via other languages)

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Feb 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Less creativity, more writing. This book has no-bullshit advice for creative writers

Amrita Kumar

· Feb 24, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why it’s worth going back to this India novel by an American writer

Sarojesh Mukherjee

· Feb 18, 2017 · 08:30 am

Is this book about a man who befriended writers the greatest novel in Urdu?

Anu Kumar

· Feb 11, 2017 · 08:30 am

It takes an uprising and its brutal suppression (and not Salman Khan) to know what being human means

Anu Kumar

· Feb 04, 2017 · 10:30 am

When a writer reads another, it can sometimes be love (and envy) at first sight

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Jan 28, 2017 · 01:30 pm

The rediscovery of Yashpal’s early stories reveals a fusion of writer and patriot

Anu Kumar

· Jan 28, 2017 · 06:30 am