Translation
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2025 International Booker Prize: India’s Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi shortlisted for ‘Heart Lamp’
Scroll Staff
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‘Quality translation is important to increase readership’: AJ Thomas, editor of ‘100 Indian Stories’
Majid Maqbool
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Sunday book pick: Upendranath Ashk’s wickedly funny short stories in ‘Hats and Doctors’
Sayari Debnath
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Short story: The garment store Devapichai works at is like a prison. Will he be able to escape it?
Vannanilavan Janani Kannan
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Classic Odia stories: No task is sordid enough for a cremator as long as he gets the right price
Satchidananda Routray Leelawati Mohapatra KK Mohapatra Paul St-Pierre
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‘The Owl, the River and the Valley’: Short stories with incisive knowledge of common Assamese woman
Anannya Nath
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‘Mudritha’: This debut novel about a missing woman is hauntingly aware of its own making
Diya Isha
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Classic Malayalam stories in translation: A couple resorts to a philosophical remedy to make money
Malabar K Sukumaran Venugopal Menon
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‘Whenever I write a word / it lacks the meaning I intended’: An anthology of translated world poetry
Priya Sarukkai Chabria Fadwa Suleiman Marilyn Hacker Amit Dutta Ayswarya S Dutta Mangalesh Dabral Daisy Rockwell Kanhopatra Anjali Purohit Vitaly Pukhanov Philip Nikolayev
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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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Classic short stories from Karnataka: A baby stirs feelings of humanity in a tribe of cannibals
Nanajangudu Thirumalamba Susheela Punitha
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‘The Beloved is my eternal sun’: A new translation of Rumi’s poetry and parables by Farrukh Dhondy
Rumi Farrukh Dhondy
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‘The Madhouse’: Gyan Chaturvedi’s biting satire about the discontents of consumer culture
Pranvi Khare
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‘Hidden Treasure’: A novel that leaves the reader famished by what it reveals and for what it hides
Sakshi Nadkarni
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Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Kesav Sunhu Prabeen,’ by Allison Busch
Allison Busch Reyazul Haque
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Translated short fiction: A peculiar fever grips Amma during the cotton harvesting season
Senthil Jagannathan Anjana Shekar
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Translated fiction: Who wants to kill Arulmozhi Varman, the beloved Ponniyin Selvan of the Lankans?
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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Literary translation and its discontents: An essay by translator Jayasree Kalathil
Jayasree Kalathil
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Sunday book pick: A security guard’s front-row view of the consumerism mania in ‘Standing Heavy’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision
Nikhil Govind