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Translation
Like its title, and life, nothing in Kiran Nagarkar’s rich ‘Seven Sixes are Forty-Three’ adds up
Simrin Sirur
· Aug 05, 2017 · 08:30 am
Film extras and domestic servants: Perumal Murugan’s tales of the subaltern
Perumal Murugan
· Jul 27, 2017 · 08:30 am
Gandharvi
Scroll Staff
· Jun 29, 2017 · 01:58 pm
How do you translate classic literature for contemporary readers?
Parvathy Raveendran
· Jun 25, 2017 · 05:30 pm
Eight ‘Bhakti’ poems that show India had multiple and diverse paths to devotion
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
· Jun 18, 2017 · 12:30 pm
When oppression confronts love, who’s the winner? This novel offers an answer
Sayali Palekar
· Jun 17, 2017 · 12:30 pm
‘I have written standing up in buses, on the fourth seat of a Mumbai local’: Jerry Pinto
Rohini Kejriwal
· Jun 10, 2017 · 07:00 am
A terrible beauty shines through this tea garden poet’s fierce verses on war, freedom, erotica
Nabina Das
· May 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm
One more Mumbai novel? No, perhaps ‘the’ novel of modern Mumbai
Sayali Palekar
· May 27, 2017 · 06:00 am
Fiction pick: What goes through a person’s mind as they contemplate jumping to death?
Ganesh Matkari
· May 06, 2017 · 08:15 am
No one writes about searing love like KR Meera does, and this novel proves it again
KR Meera
· Apr 08, 2017 · 06:30 pm
What happens when a terminally ill man turns into his favourite heroes from fiction?
Evald Flisar
· Mar 05, 2017 · 05:30 pm
Will this novel bring gay fiction into the mainstream from the regional Indian literatures?
Vasudhendra
· Feb 18, 2017 · 07:00 am
Javed Akhtar’s poem ‘A New Decree’ may remind you of the world we live in
Javed Akhtar Rakhshanda Jalil
· Nov 20, 2016 · 06:30 am
We translated the Marquis de Sade’s most obscene work. Here’s what we learnt about vulgarities
Will McMorran, The Conversation
· Nov 06, 2016 · 06:00 am
First read: The story of the boxer who had to win more bouts outside the ring than in it
Moti Nandy
· Oct 24, 2016 · 08:30 am
International Translation Day: Why I read Tagore in translation (and why I translate)
Somrita Urni Ganguly
· Sep 30, 2016 · 06:00 pm
The Three Body Problem
Scroll Staff
· Aug 21, 2016 · 09:46 am
The Infatuations
Scroll Staff
· Aug 09, 2016 · 12:03 am
Earth and Ashes
Scroll Staff
· Aug 08, 2016 · 11:42 pm
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