Translation
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Ranjit Hoskote on picking texts from India’s 2,500-year literary tradition for a new anthology
Ranjit Hoskote
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Translated short fiction: Swadesh Deepak’s short story about a troubled mother-son relationship
Swadesh Deepak Sukant Deepak
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Translated fiction: Why does Ranjan look on uncomplainingly as his lover goes out with a colleague?
Sandipan Chattopadhyay Arunava Sinha
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Sunday book pick: ‘Farewell Song’, Rabindranath Tagore’s metafiction novel meant to silent critics
Sayari Debnath
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‘Do Not Ask the River Her Name’: A congested fictional narrative includes Israel-Palestine conflict
Diya Isha
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Fiction: Shah Jahan’s daughter Jahanara lives like a recluse with Panipat, a eunuch, for company
Sukumaran Kalaivani Karunakaran
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Sunday book pick: ‘Spring Garden’ is a sobering novel about what uninspiring buildings do to a city
Sayari Debnath
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Translated fiction: After escaping a deadly bomb blast, Jibon returns to life having lost his memory
Manoranjan Byapari V Ramaswamy
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International Translation Day: Listen to ten translators around the world talk about their craft
Scroll Staff
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‘The Dust Draws Its Face on the Wind’: A landscape of feelings in Avinash Shrestha’s poetry
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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‘The Life and Work of Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar’: A biography of a brave anti-caste Devadasi
Kavitha Muralidharan
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Fiction: Azad takes up a fight for salt farmers, decades after his grandfather marched with Gandhi
Anita Agnihotri Arunava Sinha
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Cats in Japanese fiction: 12 novels since the 1900s where cats are as important as human characters
Scroll Staff
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‘The Big Book of Odia Literature’ packages Odisha’s rich and diverse literary heritage effectively
Abdullah Khan
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Translated short fiction: Read ‘Soil’ by Maithili language writer Shivshankar Srinivas
Shivshankar Srinivas Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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Fiction: This novel is a disturbing document of the ultra-left Maoist movement in central India
Avadhoot Dongare Nadeem Khan
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Horror fiction: History repeats itself as Tunu turned slowly, but definitely, into someone else
Sakyajit Bhattacharya Rituparna Mukherjee
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‘White Blood’: Nanak Singh’s 1932 novel is a searing critique of the moral corruption in society
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘Maria, Just Maria’: A defiant story of female madness with a wicked sense of humour
Saloni Sharma
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Touching the untouched: Sundar Sarukkai on translation and language
Sundar Sarukkai