Marathi
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Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Anna Bhau Sathe’, by Vishwas Patil
Vishwas Patil Suresh Maheshwari
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From the biography: Why particle physicist Ashutosh Kotwal took up a summer job at IBM as a student
Manik Kotwal Jerry Pinto
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Fiction: Young Langdya blackmails the school principal when he learns of his affair with a teacher
Shrikant Bojewar Vikrant Pande
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Marathi, Bengali among five new ‘classical languages’ approved by Union Cabinet
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: This novel is a disturbing document of the ultra-left Maoist movement in central India
Avadhoot Dongare Nadeem Khan
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Karmachari’, VP Kale reimagines what contentment for urban Indians looks like
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: For many years, Bhimnak Mahar’s family has suffered barbaric abuse by the upper castes
Sharankumar Limbale Paromita Sengupta
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‘My daily bread is my daily doubt’: Mumbai mill worker Narayan Surve’s poetry in translation
Narayan Surve Jerry Pinto
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‘Ananta, Ananta...’: Medieval thinker Chakradhar Svami’s biography from the Murty Classical Library
Mhaimbhat Anne Feldhaus
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Watch: Comic routine depicts hilarious conversation between Marathi- and Bengali-speaking roommates
Scroll Staff
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Shanta Gokhale on why she and Jerry Pinto translated Marathi poet Tukaram’s hymns as a ‘jugalbandi’
Shanta Gokhale
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‘Dudiya: In Your Burning Land’: Finely-balanced autofiction about Naxal movement in Chhattisgarh
Chittajit Mitra
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Fiction: An election observer is posted in Chhattisgarh’s Naxal areas. It changes his life forever
Vishwas Patil Nadeem Khan
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Laxmibai Abhyankar’s short stories about regressive ritualism have been translated into English
Laxmibai Abhyankar Ranjana Kaul
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‘Kalindi’: This 1930 novel recognised the rights of women and their power to dismantle caste
Anu Kumar
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Translated by Shanta Gokhale: SV Ketkar’s 1930 Marathi classic about casteless and equitable society
Shridhar V Ketkar
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‘Vacancy’: Ratnakar Matkari’s story is part of a new anthology of Marathi short fiction
Ratnakar Matkari
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A newly translated Marathi novel from 1857 shows the suffering of widows in Brahminical families
Baba Padmanji
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Language, power and politics: The shifts from 1960-’90 that came to make and unmake Mumbai
Sujata Patel D Parthasarathy George Jose
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The subversive genius of Marathi writer and rationalist Nanda Khare (1946-2022)
Prachi Deshpande