Why the New India Foundation is offering fellowships to translate non-fiction books into English

Scroll Staff

· Aug 16, 2021 · 07:30 am

How translators achieve harmony, and why this is not a threat to the writers they translate

Suchitra Ramachandran

· Aug 11, 2021 · 08:30 am

Caste, brutality and a sense of justice inform this collection of Imayam’s stories in translation

Imayam

· Jul 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Harijan’: A radical Odia novel about the lives of latrine-cleaners is now in an English translation

Gopinath Mohanty

· Jul 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why ‘The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories’ deserves a space on every feminist and political bookshelf

Saloni Sharma

· Jul 24, 2021 · 08:30 am

Shivani’s memoir of her schoolgirl days in Santiniketan is a nostalgic tribute blended with humour

Saurabh Sharma

· Jul 18, 2021 · 12:30 pm

What was daily life like for royalty in the Red Fort? This book provides a fascinating commentary

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Jul 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India

Chandan Pandey

· Jul 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight

Indu Menon

· Jul 12, 2021 · 06:30 pm

‘Mahanadi’: Anita Agnihotri’s epic Bengali novel following the course of a river is now in English

Anita Agnihotri

· Jul 08, 2021 · 07:30 pm

‘Anti-Clock’: A complicated man’s complicated relationship with religion – and with revenge

Yamini Krishnan

· Jul 03, 2021 · 08:30 am

A coffin-maker and a clock that can make time go backwards bring magical realism to this novel

VJ James

· Jun 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Even modern travel across the Arabian desert is an unpredictable adventure, shows this travelogue

E Santhosh Kumar

· Jun 20, 2021 · 06:10 pm

A tragic love story in Marathi, set on a ship on the brink of WWII, gets an English translation

Vishram Bedekar

· Jun 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always

Namita Gokhale

· Jun 16, 2021 · 08:30 am

What can happen in a country when extremists take over? This novel foresees its future

Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

· Jun 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Where Satyajit Ray brings alive the genius of three generations of the Ray family in one book

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 12, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’: Classic Hindi novel set in girls’ college gets English translation

Usha Priyamvada

· Jun 09, 2021 · 05:47 pm

‘These days I enjoy getting irritated from time to time’: The unexpected prose poems of Joy Goswami

Joy Goswami

· May 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Writer Shivani’s charming little memoir of life at Tagore’s university can now be read in English

Shivani

· May 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm