Stories
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‘I heard sounds come from the water’: Sharanya Manivannan on the images in her new picture book
Sharanya Manivannan
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‘The Amma who took French Leave’: A story from a collection of short fiction about ‘impetuous women’
Shikhandin
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How the retelling of old tales in new form creates an economy of fiction that can trigger change
Varsha Ramachandran
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‘Krantijeevi Tarangini’: Vivek Shanbhag’s story is one of 24 pieces in the ‘Our Freedoms’ anthology
Vivek Shanbhag
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How this storytelling festival for schoolchildren switched gears to cope with the pandemic
Shaguna Gahilote
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‘Principles of Prediction': Anushka Jasraj's mesmerising debut collection revels in the unknowable
Harsimran Gill
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In these stories, republished for a new generation, Kamala Das is unforgiving of men
Radhika Oberoi
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‘It is surreal to perform dastangoi on Zoom, where viewers are muted and all cameras are off’
Fouzia Dastango
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The Burmese harp and the tales of the Buddha’s previous lives
Maria Kekki
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Weekend Quiz: Which Mughal emperor commissioned the Iyar-e-Danish manuscript?
The Heritage Lab
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The pandemic may have opened up a new opportunity for authors: Writing for games
Abeer Kapoor
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The curious case of the missing newspaper: writer Varun Grover’s short story from Spoken Fest 2020
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Shashi Tharoor, Ravinder Singh, Durjoy Dutta and others tell a serialised story on Instagram
Scroll Staff
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These surreal short stories feature rickshaw drivers in a subterranean version of Delhi
Ipshita Nath
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Citizens of the world come together and move apart in this book of stories set in Dubai
Aditi Chakraborty
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Aruni Kashyap’s gentle stories depict Assamese characters trying to make sense of their world
Jai Arjun Singh
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How digital fiction is unlocking new worlds and stories for those who may not want to read books
James O’Sullivan, The Conversation
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How video games are changing storytelling by co-opting the player, which fiction still cannot do
Kaustav Sood
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Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee (2001-’17) wrote these stories at 16. She would have been 18 when published
Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee
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Manish Nandy’s charming autobiographical tales show that real life can be more amusing than fiction
Manish Nandy