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Fiction: Freshly minted MBA graduate Pawan Pande realises the corporate ladder is more of a maze
Mamta Kalia Jerry Pinto
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Short fiction: Dalit women in a Punjab village ward off lecherous dominant-caste men
Bhura Singh Kaler Akshaya Kumar Navdeep Singh
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‘The self is all pervasive like ether’: A new translation of the Isa Upanisad for the modern reader
Nachiketa Jha
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How literary critic DR Nagaraj engaged with 12th-century philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu in his work
NS Gundur
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Banibrata Mahanta wins 2025 Muse India Translation Award for translating Hindi novel, ‘Lavanyadevi’
Scroll Staff
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Kalki’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan’: Rival factions gather at Kadambur Palace, awaiting crucial decisions
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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Life story: What a five-paise reward taught writer Vasudhendra about not being wasteful
Vasudhendra Narayan Shankaran
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‘Weird, delightful, refreshing’: Anupama Raju on translating writer Paul Zacharia’s ‘imagination’
Anupama Raju
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International Booker shortlist: ‘Taiwan Travelogue’ feels repetitive despite its innovative methods
Sayari Debnath
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This book records the Bhil tribes’ resistance movements against Rajputs, Marathas and the British
Subhash Chandra Kushwaha Naresh Nadeem
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Translated fiction: Aditi moves from Bangladesh to Kolkata. She’s haunted by memories of her sister
Abhijit Sen Madhura Bhattacharya
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‘I have a natural attachment to Urdu’: Punjabi poet Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi writes in his memoir
Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi 'Sahar' Kamna Prasad
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‘Closely Watched Trains’: The humour in Bohumil Hrabal’s 1965 novella is a response to ruination
Ravi Shankar Shukla
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International Booker shortlist: Wives cry tears of blood in ‘The Witch’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Last Song Before Home’: A deeply intimate novel that opens onto a panoramic view of India’s history
Dushyant
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Shipwrecked in a time loop: Solvej Balle’s ‘On the Calculation of Volume’ plays a long game
David McCooey, The Conversation
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Experimental fiction: A river hatches a conspiracy with a tree to transform human civilisation
Krishnopriyo Bhattacharya Arunava Sinha
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Fiction: When a family decides to relocate its ancestral gods, it signals the end of a way of life
DB Mokashi Shanta Gokhale
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‘Bearing Witness to the Age’: Poet Behçet Necatigil’s grounded vision of Turkish modernism
Sudeshna Chakravorty
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International Booker shortlist: Life after the revolution in ‘The Nights are Quiet in Tehran’
Sayari Debnath