Short story
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Translated short fiction: Jameel’s outspoken servant, Nazru, puts him in a sticky situation
Muhammad Hasan Askari Mehr Afshan Farooqui
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Indian writer Sharon Aruparayil is the Asia winner of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Scroll Staff
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Short fiction: A young man worries about his mother while fantasising about a billboard model
Dinesh Shrinet Mayank Jain Parichha
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Mumbai-based writer Kartikeya Shekhar wins the Book Review Literary Trust’s 2025 short story contest
Scroll Staff
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Short fiction: The demolition of the Babri Masjid sends the journalists of a newspaper into a flurry
NS Madhavan
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Short fiction: A man asks his wife of thirty years for a divorce on a flight to Switzerland
Naina More
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‘Afternoon’: In Malayalam writer Sethu’s short story, an elderly woman awaits her son’s return
Sethu Ministhy S
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‘One More Story About Climbing a Hill’: Devabrata Das’s postmodernist take in Assamese short stories
Anannya Nath
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Fiction pick: An elderly Bengali couple cannot decide what to feed their son-in-law on Jamai Shashti
Shikhandin
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International Booker Prize shortlist: From Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
Banu Mushtaq Deepa Bhasthi
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Translated short fiction: Malka Begum is not impressed by what she sees on a trip to Delhi
Rashid Jahan Rakhshanda Jalil
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‘I’m interested in the underdog more than I’m in the hero’: Indian-Canadian writer Deepa Rajagopalan
Nirmala Thomas
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Sunday book pick: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s only short story ‘Recitatif’
Sayari Debnath
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Translated short fiction: Read ‘Soil’ by Maithili language writer Shivshankar Srinivas
Shivshankar Srinivas Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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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: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India
Farrukh Dhondy
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‘The First of the Odds’: A short story by novelist Anees Salim
Anees Salim
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‘Writers in Kerala are cultural icons’: Editor AJ Thomas on the legacy of the Malayalam short story
Diya Isha
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‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal
Maaz Bin Bilal
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Read: Ten flash fiction pieces by Joginder Paul in their first English translation
Joginder Paul