Marathi translation
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Fiction: The Great Kanchana Circus is touring Burma when the Japanese bomb Rangoon and Mandalay
Vishwas Patil Nadeem Khan
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Fiction: When a family decides to relocate its ancestral gods, it signals the end of a way of life
DB Mokashi Shanta Gokhale
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Fiction: A young schoolteacher arrives in the parched village of Bangarwadi to teach the children
Vyankatesh Madgulkar Shanta Gokhale
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Fiction: A chain of bizarre events is set in motion as a funeral procession collides with a scooter
Shyam Manohar Jerry Pinto
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Translated fiction: A woman walks into a room where a group of men gather at night to talk and drink
Kamal Desai Shanta Gokhale
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Fiction: At ninety-four, a retired engineer writes his third and, as he insists, final autobiography
Rajendra Banahatti Jerry Pinto
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‘Scratching the Silence’: Prafull Shiledar’s poetic vision is a search for humane transformation
Kamalakar Bhat
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‘Silk Route’: Sachin Kundalkar returns with a story of disappearances 12 years after ‘Cobalt Blue’
Sayari Debnath
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From the biography: Why RD Karve’s ‘Samaaj-swaasthya’ magazine advocated birth control in the 1920s
Anant Deshmukh Nadeem Khan
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Translated short fiction: Putali, a pregnant cow, tries to birth her calf during fearsome rain
RR Borade Anjali Nerlekar
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‘One and Three Quarters’: A survival tale of a village boy told with wit, irony and a touch of magic
Pranvi Khare
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Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Anna Bhau Sathe’, by Vishwas Patil
Vishwas Patil Suresh Maheshwari
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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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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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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