Pandemic
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Top 10 Covid-19 updates: Maharashtra’s tally crosses 4 lakh, state extends lockdown till August 31
Scroll Staff
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What queer themes are India’s writers building their books on during the pandemic?
Chintan Girish Modi
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My speculative novel was rejected in New York before the pandemic. Will things change now?
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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Bombay plague of 1896: The first bio-political crisis to be captured on camera in colonial India
Shivani Sud
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Pandemic. Quarantine. Vaccine. What are the origins of the normalised vocabulary under Covid-19?
Karthik Venkatesh
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The pandemic may have changed school textbooks for good. How can publishers cope?
Atiya Zaidi with Pervin Saket
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Why the lockdown and physical distancing have all but ended Delhi’s iconic used books market
Kanupriya Dhingra
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Watch: Actor and comedian Eric D'Alessandro’s satirical video is for everyone refusing to mask up
Scroll Staff
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First person: How a poetry-only publishing house is dealing with the pandemic (and how it grew)
Hemant Divate
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Can the pandemic turn everyone into a writer? Get some inspiration from an 18th century Frenchman
Xavier De Maistre
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As lockdown returns, migrant families in India are going without food
Aarefa Johari
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How has the pandemic changed work and life for women in publishing (and for feminist publishers)?
Urvashi Butalia
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‘Scream inside your heart’: Japan amusement park executives unveil new norms for rides
Scroll Staff
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‘How do I know this isn’t full of spiders?’ Watch this satire on reasons given for not wearing masks
Scroll Staff
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Coronavirus’ deadliest blow: Complicated grief for the families of those who died
Aarefa Johari
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Why writers and publishers must tell the stories of the pandemic in a new way, with empathy
Aditya Sudarshan
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This novel was published in 2018, but perhaps it is best read during the pandemic in 2020
Nishtha Jaiswal
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‘Reading helps cope with stress and provides creative solutions in the uncertain times of Covid-19’
Kanishka Gupta Neelini Sarkar
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Comics were facing a squeeze in India. Has the pandemic opened the door to a revival?
CG Salamander
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How this independent bookshop in Toronto weathered the lockdown has lessons for India’s bookstores
Kanishka Gupta Neelini Sarkar Meenakshi Alimchandani