Translation
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Fiction: A young poet shares all his secrets with a tree. Soon his life will be transformed by love
Srijato Mahargya Chakraborty
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‘All of us have been commodified’: Anuradha Sarma Pujari, who wrote a novel about capitalism in 1997
Shibani Phukan
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‘Roman Stories’: In Jhumpa Lahiri’s book of short stories, Rome lies beyond the fabled la dolce vita
Sayari Debnath
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November fiction: The festive season continues in full swing with these recently published books
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A mysterious programme promises fluency in any language in only ten days. But at what cost?
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
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‘Feeling Kerala’: These Malayalam stories curated-translated by J Devika redefine literary Kerala
Diya Isha
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From the memoir: A ‘rental person’ on providing services to lonely and socially anxious people
Shoji Morimoto Angus Turvill
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Fiction: A writer holds seances with Shah Jahan, who is elbowed out by Aurangzeb, to write a novel
Charu Nivedita Nandini Krishnan
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‘My book isn’t rock-n-roll. I wanted to imitate Chopin’s minimalism’: Geet Chaturvedi on ‘Simsim’
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Shanta Gokhale on why she and Jerry Pinto translated Marathi poet Tukaram’s hymns as a ‘jugalbandi’
Shanta Gokhale
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‘A writer shouldn’t stay with his story for too long’: Manoj Rupda on ‘I Named My Sister Silence’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Dudiya: In Your Burning Land’: Finely-balanced autofiction about Naxal movement in Chhattisgarh
Chittajit Mitra
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‘The Nemesis’: In a caste-sick society, anger is the only choice for Manoranjan Byapari’s alter ego
Sayari Debnath
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‘Sakina’s Kiss’: How dated ideas of masculinity are suffocating the great Indian family
Sayari Debnath
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Why Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving a ‘voice to the unsayable’
Alexander Howard, The Conversation
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Fiction: William’s dream of returning changes not only his destiny but also the land
Ali Akbar Natiq Naima Rashid
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In translation: Kashmiri writer Hari Krishna Kaul’s short stories reach English-language readers
Hari Krishna Kaul Kalpana Raina, Tanveer Ajsi, Gowhar Fazili, Gowhar Yaqoob
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A new book brings 14 short stories of Bengali women authors from Bangladesh and India in translation
Tilottama Majumdar Subarna Banerjee
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What kind of casteism, sexual violence, and dire poverty are modern ‘devadasis’ subjected to?
Arun Ezhuthachan Meera Gopinath
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‘Won’t You Stay, Radhika?’: A rich tapestry of rumination on what we miss when we leave our homeland
Akshaj Awasthi