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

Why language is not everything that Noam Chomsky said it is

Daniel Everett

· Jan 23, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Madness and the art of a Bengali poet

Prasanta Chakravarty

· Jan 22, 2017 · 08:15 am

'Distant gods': A poem by Anjum Hasan

Anjum Hasan

· Jan 01, 2017 · 09:00 pm

Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today

Satyavrat KK

· Dec 31, 2016 · 05:30 am

Watership Down author Richard Adams dies

Scroll Staff

· Dec 27, 2016 · 10:55 pm

'Crime and Punishment' is 150, but it has never been more eco-politically relevant than in 2016

Adrian Campbell, The Conversation

· Dec 23, 2016 · 08:30 am

Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi embodied the true (and endangered) Ganga-Jamni culture of India

Harish Trivedi

· Dec 18, 2016 · 07:00 am

Why we can continue to like VS Naipaul’s novels while opposing his ideas

Rifat Munim

· Dec 15, 2016 · 08:30 am

A dastangoi tells the story of the Pakistani author Intizar Husain

Mahmood Farooqui

· Dec 09, 2016 · 08:30 am

A century after his death, a Japanese literary giant is returning as an android

Philip Seargeant, The Conversation

· Dec 08, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Italian author wins Bad Sex Award for genital ballet. But when is written sex ever any good?

Zoe Strimpel, The Conversation

· Dec 04, 2016 · 10:30 am

Here is a new way to read Elena Ferrante: Try walking through Naples

Veena Muthuraman

· Nov 26, 2016 · 11:00 am

We translated the Marquis de Sade’s most obscene work. Here’s what we learnt about vulgarities

Will McMorran, The Conversation

· Nov 06, 2016 · 06:00 am

As Man Booker winner Paul Beatty is about to find out, literary celebrity changes everything

Rebecca Braun, The Conversation

· Oct 30, 2016 · 08:30 am

Why we need a new, truly global, prize for world literature

Mahmud Rahman

· Oct 22, 2016 · 12:30 pm