To read Samanta Schweblin’s short stories is to expect a dry mouth and a loss of words

Sana Goyal

· Feb 09, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘A Handful Of Sesame’: This Kannada novel places the reader at the centre of a broken universe

Suhasini Patni

· Feb 02, 2019 · 07:00 am

‘When George III Drives a Train’: A short story by KR Meera

KR Meera

· Jan 31, 2019 · 08:30 am

An epic work of Hindi fiction is finding its way to more readers through translation

Upendranath Ashk

· Jan 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Life is non-literary, unstructured. We try to give our own structure to it’: Writer Jayant Kaikini

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

This novel about an artist reveals a brand new way to tell an enigmatic story about a real person

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 06, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Jasmine Days

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 03:35 pm

The Women’s Courtyard

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 03:25 pm

Flights

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 02:46 pm

‘The long history of Sanskrit has many faces, including voices of protest and revolt’: David Shulman

Veena Muthuraman

· Dec 30, 2018 · 07:39 am

One story, two endings: This is how Perumal Murugan’s dual sequels to ‘One Part Woman’ begin

Perumal Murugan

· Dec 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Godsong’: This translation (re)locates the Gita in Arjuna’s confusion and Krishna’s eloquence

Sayali Palekar

· Dec 16, 2018 · 05:30 am

A reporter’s eye melds personal lives with the rhythms of the forest of Kaziranga in this novel

Suhasini Patni

· Dec 08, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Joe D’Cruz’s ‘Ocean Rimmed World’ sails with a community of fishermen in ways no novel has

RN Joe D’Cruz

· Nov 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Only a fraction of worthy modern Tamil books have been translated, says N Kalyan Raman

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Is this collection of stories about death, destiny or Benares? Perhaps it’s all three

Siba Barkataki

· Nov 03, 2018 · 12:30 pm

A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life

Nikhil Govind

· Oct 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘You have to be very humble’: How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English

Niyati Bhat

· Oct 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

Meet Shahnaz Habib, whose debut translation has won the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 27, 2018 · 07:00 am

Translating Asterix jokes and puns: The genius of Anthea Bell (and Derek Hockridge)

Aunty Muriel

· Oct 22, 2018 · 06:30 pm