Sanjana Thakur from Mumbai is the Asia winner of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Scroll Staff

· May 29, 2024 · 01:34 pm

‘The Meat Market’: These stories take an ice-cold plunge into clammy depths of human behaviour

Saloni Sharma

· May 26, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die

Mashiul Alam Shabnam Nadiya

· May 06, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Instruments of Torture’: These stories show us what we do in the shadows

Sayari Debnath

· May 04, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘Speaking Sandals’: Stories about sociological realities of ‘untouchable’ Madigas of Andhra Pradesh

Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule

· Apr 27, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Short fiction: Riddled with debt, a farmer urges the PM to change the formula for compound interest

Chandan Pandey Sayari Debnath

· Apr 18, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Ma is Scared’: Anjali Kajal’s short stories step into the lives of ordinary women in northern India

Areeb Ahmad

· Apr 07, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Short fiction: A 79-year-old widow is shocked by her desire to dress up like a bride on her birthday

Santanu Das

· Apr 01, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A middle-aged Nepali man comes to terms with his sexuality in an orthodox social system

Ranjan Adiga

· Mar 29, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Bear With Me, Amma’: For writer MT Vasudevan, fiction is a blend of reality and imagination

Sonal Dugar

· Mar 17, 2024 · 07:30 am

These short stories set in Bangladesh explore what it is to be human in a violent, grieving world

Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

· Feb 29, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A new book of short stories dwells on the human subconsciousness and forbidden desires

Aparna Sanyal

· Feb 28, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Mithun Number Two’: Jayant Kaikini’s stories present the impossible dream – and reality – of Mumbai

Sayari Debnath

· Feb 24, 2024 · 08:30 am

Fiction: Will Ashima reunite with her long-lost daughter, whom she was forced to give away at birth?

Bulbul Sharma

· Feb 23, 2024 · 05:30 pm

This new anthology is a collection of 21 short stories about Bombay, Mumbai, and its people

Mohan Rakesh Jerry Pinto

· Feb 19, 2024 · 05:30 pm

In translation: Jayant Kaikini’s new book of short stories is set in Mumbai, India’s Maximum City

Jayant Kaikini Tejaswini Niranjana

· Feb 05, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times’ engages with critical issues and offers no easy solutions

Saloni Sharma

· Jan 28, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘A new imagination of social justice is emerging in modern Malayali fiction’: Translator J Devika

Diya Isha

· Jan 21, 2024 · 08:30 am

A new book brings short stories by the Tamil writer Imayam to readers in English translation

Imayam Prabha Sridevan

· Jan 04, 2024 · 05:30 pm

A new book of Urdu short stories in translation reveals contemporary Kolkata in unexpected ways

Mahmoud Yasien Afif Shams Siddiqi

· Jan 03, 2024 · 05:30 pm