Literature
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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
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Why it’s worth going back to this India novel by an American writer
Sarojesh Mukherjee
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Is this book about a man who befriended writers the greatest novel in Urdu?
Anu Kumar
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It takes an uprising and its brutal suppression (and not Salman Khan) to know what being human means
Anu Kumar
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When a writer reads another, it can sometimes be love (and envy) at first sight
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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The rediscovery of Yashpal’s early stories reveals a fusion of writer and patriot
Anu Kumar
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Why language is not everything that Noam Chomsky said it is
Daniel Everett
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Madness and the art of a Bengali poet
Prasanta Chakravarty
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'Distant gods': A poem by Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan
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Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today
Satyavrat KK
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Watership Down author Richard Adams dies
Scroll Staff
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'Crime and Punishment' is 150, but it has never been more eco-politically relevant than in 2016
Adrian Campbell, The Conversation
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Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi embodied the true (and endangered) Ganga-Jamni culture of India
Harish Trivedi
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Why we can continue to like VS Naipaul’s novels while opposing his ideas
Rifat Munim