Paramita Brahmachari wins the 2023 Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize for ‘Pebblemonkey’

Scroll Staff

· May 23, 2023 · 03:33 pm

‘Kalindi’: This 1930 novel recognised the rights of women and their power to dismantle caste

Anu Kumar

· May 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Fate’s Game’: Stories written almost a century ago tackle dowry, caste, and female oppression

Saloni Sharma

· May 20, 2023 · 08:30 am

This translation brings Bengali writer Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer short stories to the world

Krishnagopal Mallick Niladri R Chatterjee

· May 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Malayalam author Manasi, known for her feminist short stories, has been translated into English

Manasi J Devika

· May 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Greek Lessons’: Han Kang’s latest novel in translation challenges the normative role of language

Saloni Sharma

· May 14, 2023 · 01:30 pm

‘Chittacobra’ is a novel about desire and the complications of its pushes and pulls

Shubhangi Tiwari

· May 13, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘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