International Booker Prize shortlist: From Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi

Banu Mushtaq Deepa Bhasthi

· Apr 08, 2025 · 07:00 pm

Translated short fiction: Malka Begum is not impressed by what she sees on a trip to Delhi

Rashid Jahan Rakhshanda Jalil

· Mar 24, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘I’m interested in the underdog more than I’m in the hero’: Indian-Canadian writer Deepa Rajagopalan

Nirmala Thomas

· Dec 21, 2024 · 08:30 pm

Sunday book pick: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s only short story ‘Recitatif’

Sayari Debnath

· Nov 24, 2024 · 08:30 am

Translated short fiction: Read ‘Soil’ by Maithili language writer Shivshankar Srinivas

Shivshankar Srinivas Ashutosh Kumar Thakur

· Sep 20, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Sunday book pick: In ‘Karmachari’, VP Kale reimagines what contentment for urban Indians looks like

Sayari Debnath

· Sep 08, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India

Farrukh Dhondy

· Jul 31, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The First of the Odds’: A short story by novelist Anees Salim

Anees Salim

· Jul 13, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Writers in Kerala are cultural icons’: Editor AJ Thomas on the legacy of the Malayalam short story

Diya Isha

· Feb 17, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Dec 10, 2023 · 08:30 am

Read: Ten flash fiction pieces by Joginder Paul in their first English translation

Joginder Paul

· Apr 06, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘The Issue’: Read Tanuj Solanki’s short fiction from a new anthology featuring young Indian writers

Tanuj Solanki

· Sep 07, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Short story: ‘The Finding’. (Or, a discovery that stunned a world reeling under a pandemic)

Arundhati Ghosh

· May 24, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The New Provincials’: A story from Sumana Roy’s new book of short fiction, ‘My Mother’s Lover’

Sumana Roy

· Jan 02, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How do you live between two worlds, America and India? Anosh Irani’s short stories try to find out

Anosh Irani

· Dec 22, 2019 · 07:30 am

The Indian tendency to stretch time becomes a boon when aliens arrive in this science fiction story

Manjula Padmanabhan

· Mar 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

An eerie walk in the hills comes to an unexpected end in this short story by actor Manav Kaul

Manav Kaul

· Feb 28, 2019 · 08:30 am

Shame and displacement lead to an unexpected end in this short story from an all-women anthology

Reshma Ruia

· Jan 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Bengaluru-based writer V Sanjay Kumar wins top spot in UK’s Bridport Prize short story competition

Scroll Staff

· Nov 06, 2018 · 04:33 pm

‘A Nail on a Tamarind Tree’: This eerie short story explores a popular Indian belief about ghosts

K Madavane

· Oct 09, 2018 · 08:30 am