Translation
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Sunday book pick: ‘My Heavenly Favourite’, a novel about sexual grooming puts the reader in a trance
Sayari Debnath
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Why tales about Bonbibi, guardian spirit of Sunderbans, are so important to the region’s literature
Tony K Stewart
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Fiction: Poorani’s life turns into an endless crisis after her father dies, till she meets Aravindan
Na Parthasarathy Malini Seshadri
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Biography: Ayyappa Paniker left an indelible mark on academia, Malayalam literature, and his mentees
Priyadas G Mangalath Radhika P Menon
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Fiction: Young Langdya blackmails the school principal when he learns of his affair with a teacher
Shrikant Bojewar Vikrant Pande
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‘The Menstrual Coupé’: These experimental stories about women’s lives and sexuality are a revelation
Rahul Singh
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Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
Sayari Debnath
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Translated Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Khamoshi Ka Arth Parajay Nahin Hota’
Amitabh Chakraborty
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‘Darkness has spread, prudence is lost’: Read Urdu poet Zehra Nigah’s poems in translation
Zehra Nigah Rakhshanda Jalil
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Translated Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Lajja’, by Taslima Nasreen
Taslima Nasreen Munmun Sarkar
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Women who write themselves: The quiet strength of Tamil writer Imayam’s female protagonists
Kavitha Muralidharan
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Fiction: Kalyanaraman visits Mempatti to study folk songs. He is put up in a mysterious old mansion
Sujatha Malini Seshadri
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‘I’m a mother to you’: Mahatma Gandhi to Manu Gandhi when she came to stay at the ashram with him
Manu Gandhi Tridip Suhrud
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Folk tales for children: How the Myntdu, Myntang and Umiurem rivers in Meghalaya came to be
Sobhona Bhattacharjee Utsa Bose
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How K Chinnappa Gowda and B Surendra Rao translated the oral language Tulu for the world
Deepa Bhasthi
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In her autobiography, Bangladeshi writer Noorjahan Bose remembers her mother’s skilful cooking
Noorjahan Bose Rebecca Whittington
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Poetry: Five different translations of Shervin Hajipour’s Persian protest song ‘Baraye’
Vighnesh Hampapura Ayesha Latif Ayesha Irani Nachiket Joshi Amna Ali Khan Balakrishnan Raghavan Ammara Ahmad Alexander McKinley Rohee Dholakia
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Fiction: The only way for Xavier to resolve his troubles is to know his scandalous ancestor, Francis
TD Ramakrishnan Priya K Nair
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2024 JCB Prize for Literature shortlist includes two debut novels and three translations
Scroll Staff
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Sunday book pick: ‘A Little Lumpen Novelita’ is the perfect introduction to Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre
Sayari Debnath