‘The quest for the ultimate ‘Mahabharata’ is madness. It is not there’: Translator Wendy Doniger

Avik Chanda

· May 07, 2023 · 08:30 am

In ‘The Sthory of Two Wimmin named Kalyani and Dakshayani’, women defy social and cultural taboos

Saloni Sharma

· May 06, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new book of short stories is based on eyewitness accounts of women’s lives in royal harems

Apala G Egan

· May 04, 2023 · 01:30 pm

A new translation of the first book of Kalki’s Tamil magnum opus ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ is here

Kalki Nandini Krishnan

· May 03, 2023 · 11:30 am

Rajkamal Chaudhary’s short stories give glimpses into newly independent India and its weariness

Rajkamal Chaudhary Saudamini Deo

· May 02, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Jeyamohan’s novel ‘The Abyss’ is frightening, funny, and everything in between

Karthik Keramalu

· Apr 29, 2023 · 07:30 am

Mahasweta Devi’s thriller exposes the moral hypocrisy of the affluent when a pregnant maid dies

Mahasweta Devi

· Apr 24, 2023 · 03:30 pm

When Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s book was ‘arrested’ by the Kenyan Police for ‘rumour mongering’

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

· Apr 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm

New in translation: Another set of short stories by the Malayalam author Benyamin

Benyamin

· Apr 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: The state drives a poor but brilliant boy to destruction in newly-independent Bangladesh

Shahidul Zahir

· Apr 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Cursed Bunny’: These anti-fairy tales of capitalism and patriarchy are shrouded in phantasmagoria

Santa Nibedita

· Apr 15, 2023 · 11:30 am

Finally translated into English, ‘The Bride’ reveals the peculiar practices of marriages

Sharmistha Jha

· Apr 15, 2023 · 08:30 am

Fiction: Pandaram makes his money from the deformed beggars he owns. What’s their world like?

Jeyamohan

· Apr 11, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new anthology shows the richness and diversity of the modern short story from Bangladesh

Humayun Ahmed

· Apr 10, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Read: Ten flash fiction pieces by Joginder Paul in their first English translation

Joginder Paul

· Apr 06, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A newly-translated Nepali novel set in 1980s’ Darjeeling is a cautionary tale of a failed movement

Lekhnath Chhetri

· Apr 06, 2023 · 11:30 am

Dalpat Chauhan’s short stories depict violence, terror that Dalits face in their day to day lives

Dalpat Chauhan

· Apr 05, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Fiction: A schoolteacher and farmers join hands to fight atrocities in Tamil Nadu’s black soil areas

Ponneelan

· Apr 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘My intention is to be as authentic as possible to what Veda Vyasa said’: Translator Bibek Debroy

Avik Chanda

· Apr 01, 2023 · 09:20 am

Fiction: Stories by Kannada writer Kodagina Gouramma Gouramma, who wrote of dowry and widowhood

Kodagina Gouramma

· Mar 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm