Translation
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‘Hooked’ by Asako Yuzuki: A biting tale of female loneliness and obsession
Nozomi Uematsu, The Conversation
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Fiction: When Allauddin Khilji conquers Madurai, the city’s goddess Meenakshi flees to Kumari
Jeyamohan Suchitra
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Vivek Shanbhag, Srinath Perur’s ‘Sakina’s Kiss’ shortlisted for James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
Scroll Staff
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Muse India Translation Award announces its 2025 shortlist of ten books
Scroll Staff
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Translated fiction: In Sunil Gagopadhyay’s short story, a man makes a deal with Death
Sunil Gangopadhyay Chitrita Banerji
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Victorian scholar Annette S Beveridge’s long road to translating Gulbadan Begum’s ‘Humayun Nama’
Ruby Lal
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For children: In this Satyajit Ray short story, a fortune teller witnesses a son’s revenge
Satyajit Ray
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Sunday book pick: Seven die in quest for a ‘perfect woman’ in crime novel ‘The Tokyo Zodiac Murders’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Silent Journeys’ by Benyamin: A tapestry of migration, memory, and the women who walked unseen
Suchismita Ghosh
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Short fiction: A man’s search for his mother leads him to a well where he hears her voice
D Ravikumar V Ramakrishnan
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Fiction: An unemployed Sivathanu is miserable after marrying the daughter of a wealthy couple
Nanjil Nadan S Thillainayagam
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures’, an author laughs at himself
Sayari Debnath
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‘I describe myself as a smuggler, border-crosser across languages’: Translator J Devika
Saurabh Sharma
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Translated children’s fiction: A tale of friendship, unity, and adventure in a forest
Bhagirath Mishra Sohini Basak
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Translated fiction: A group of gig workers in Kolkata thinks about its place in the universe
Ashoke Mukhopadhyay Zenith Roy
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‘Harmful from the perspective of health, economics’: Why chemist PC Ray (1861-1944) abhorred tea
Prafulla Chandra Ray Arunava Sinha
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From the biography: The deep impression Italian rebel Giuseppe Mazzini left on Tamil poet Bharathi
TMC Raghunathan Prabha Sridevan
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From the memoir: Poet Akhtarul Iman on the conflict between Urdu writers’ groups in India
Akhtarul Iman Baidar Bakht
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Fiction: Ex-police officer Ousepachan dwells less on the crime and more on the minds that commit it
Jeyamohan V Iswarya
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International Booker Prize 2026: A reader’s guide to the 13 titles in translation on the longlist
Scroll Staff