Translation
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Fiction: Rabia looks forward in nervous excitement to changes that puberty may bring to her life
Salma GJV Prasad
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‘The translator runs vagabond on a taut rope’: A new book of 21st-century Hindi poems in translation
Vishnu Khare Tanuj Solanki Uday Prakash Carol Blaizy D’souza Gagan Gill Vidya Bhandarkar Mahesh Verma Tuhin Bhowal Parwati Tirkey Dibyajyoti Sarma Nirmala Putul Nidhi Singh
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Fiction: Ponniyin Selvan has vanished after a devastating shipwreck off the coast of Lanka
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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Short fiction: Abused by their husbands, the women wonder who the best man in the village is
Endapalli Bharathi VB Sowmya
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Short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto: A daughter’s return reveals the violent price of the Partition
Saadat Hasan Manto Sonakshi Gupta
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2025 NIF Translation Fellowships to translate texts from 10 Indian languages open for applications
Scroll Staff
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‘A Glimpse of My Life’ by Ram Prasad Bismil: A moving autobiography of a young revolutionary
Salil Misra
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‘Tamil: The Best Stories of Our Times’: Tamil modernity, a field of tensions between past and future
Rhea Gangavkar
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‘Rahim says, those charred by love blaze, again and again’: The metaphors in Rahim’s couplets
Chandan Sinha
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Crime fiction: The line between culinary artistry and sinister manipulation blurs at this restaurant
Mohammad Nazim Uddin V Ramaswamy
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Valley of Words Book Awards announces its 2025 shortlists across eight categories
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: Nobo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds an infant abandoned at the station
Manoranjan Byapari Anchita Ghatak
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Translated dystopian fiction: A young woman registers her ancestry as she enters adulthood
Soham Guha Sarban Bandyopadhyay
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‘Tiger Lessons’: A compelling novel about the shared existence of humans and animals in the forests
Diya Sengupta
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‘The Mozhi Prize Anthology 1’: Short stories with wide appeal are grounded in Tamil cultural milieu
Divya Shankar
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Living without the magnifying glass: A reflection on Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel, ‘Zorba the Greek’
R Sivakumar
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‘A New World Romance’: Schism between mind and soul forms the crux of this modern meditation on love
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Fiction: Keeru leaves Pakistan, where he was hounded for his caste and accused of blasphemy
Fauzia Rafique Haider Shahbaz
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Translated fiction: Who was Sabari, the forest-dweller who became Rama’s ardent devotee?
Volga Purnima Tammireddy
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‘At his feet I pay homage, cupping my hands in reverence’: The Buddha as man, animal, and god
Sarah Shaw