Literature
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These are the 11 books in progress that the Rs 18-lakh New India Foundation fellowships will support
Scroll Staff
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Even before Covid-19, fiction and memoirs were talking about physical and mental health
Cynthia Spada, The Conversation
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Virginia Woolf died 80 years ago. What does reading her work in the midst of a pandemic bring us?
Jess Cotton, The Conversation
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From Goa to London with Graham Greene: A first-person account of a literary friendship
Maria Aurora Couto
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Bards from the dawn-lit mountains: What is the literature of Arunachal Pradesh?
Yater Nyokir
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‘We text, text, text, our significant words’: Poems for those in long-distance relationships
Kate North, The Conversation
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‘Krishnayan’: The women in Krishna’s life talk about him in this bestselling Gujarati novel
Kaajal Oza Vaidya
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As the awards season approaches, a poet and editor offers some suggestions to the Sahitya Akademi
Medha Singh
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Locked down, born again: Covid-19 and the search for Indian Francophone literature
Ari Gautier
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More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan
Siok Sian Pek-Dorji
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When there is so much darkness in the world, should it really be kept out of children’s books?
Bijal Vachharajani
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Literary awards: How the pandemic is changing the nature of prizes and prizewinning books
Surina Narula
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What Gurdial Singh’s fiction reveals about the social and cultural roots of the farmers’ protest
Madhav Nayar
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How the Bangalore Literature Festival 2020 was held neither online nor on-ground, but in both forms
Shinie Antony
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How do you run India’s biggest literary prize, the JCB Prize for Literature, in a pandemic year?
Mita Kapur
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How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
Murali Ranganathan
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Weekend Quiz: Which 4th-century epic Sanskrit drama does this mural portray?
The Heritage Lab
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Why Premchand said, ‘The ascent of literature is the ascent of a nation’
Premchand
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Exiled and distanced from its home, Tibetan writing has long reflected the spirit of the pandemic
Kaushik Barua
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Litfests: Sponsors and participants should both know there are always strings attached
Arundhati Ghosh