Short fiction: An elderly woman celebrates a strange Christmas after a health scare

Bulbul Sharma

· Dec 25, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘Sugar, Smoke, Song’: Assamese writer Reema Rajbanshi addresses discrimination in India and US

Tina Borah, PubLab

· Dec 08, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘Nocturne Pondicherry’: In these translated short stories, night is an enabler and invader

Rahul Vishnoi

· Nov 24, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘The Menstrual Coupé’: These experimental stories about women’s lives and sexuality are a revelation

Rahul Singh

· Nov 17, 2024 · 03:30 pm

Sunday book pick: The many reflections of womanhood in Danielle Pender’s ‘Watching Women and Girls’

Sayari Debnath

· Nov 10, 2024 · 08:30 am

Short fiction: Vibha is perplexed by the people and philosophy of the design firm she works at

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Nov 04, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Translated fiction: Why does Ranjan look on uncomplainingly as his lover goes out with a colleague?

Sandipan Chattopadhyay Arunava Sinha

· Oct 14, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: There’s a song at the heart of every short story in this book

Preet Modi

· Oct 07, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Short fiction by Bulbul Sharma: A mother takes her children to birdwatch in the mountains

Bulbul Sharma

· Aug 28, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Short fiction: An Assamese folktale offers hope and relief in times of widespread crisis

Uddipana Goswami

· Aug 27, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Short fiction: The death of a couple’s young son makes them re-evaluate their relationship with him

Anirban Bhattacharya

· Aug 21, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes

Shibani Phukan

· Aug 11, 2024 · 07:30 am

Translated short fiction: Quick journeys from mundane situations to the darkness within people

Ari Gautier Roopam Singh

· Jul 12, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A zamindar’s pet dogs have been friends all their lives, till cruel fate separates them

Kalindi Charan Panigrahi Asima Ranjan Parhi

· Jul 05, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Short fiction: A couple, slowly falling out of love, hopes for a baby to save their marriage

Aneeta Sundararaj

· Jul 01, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Short fiction from Assam: A young revolutionary meets his schoolteacher after many years

Klirni Terangpi

· Jun 28, 2024 · 05:30 pm

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