Translation
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Vinod Kumar Shukla (1937-2025): Five excerpts from his fiction (and two poems) in translation
Vinod Kumar Shukla
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Translated fiction: Mohini, a transwoman, prepares for her daughter Disha’s wedding
Nasima Anis Sarban Bandopadhyay
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‘Perennial’ : This translated selection of poems provides a window to contemporary Hindi poetry
Smitha Sehgal
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‘The Chinese Mansion’: A deft magical realism novel about a lawyer’s insecurities and inner demons
Divya Shankar
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‘Serene and industrious’: Prabhudas Gandhi recalls working on a newspaper with his uncle, MK Gandhi
Prabhudas Gandhi Hemang Ashwinkumar
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Sunday book pick: An oppressive boarding school childhood in 1989 novel ‘Sweet Days of Discipline’
Sayari Debnath
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Translator’s notebook: Uncompromising integrity is essential when translating texts from the margins
Catherine Thankamma
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Sunday book pick: The price of belonging in Bani Basu’s immigrant novel ‘The Continents Between’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Keeru’: Punjabi writer Fauzia Rafique’s novel is a queer-feminist invitation to hope and resilience
Priyanka Chakrabarty
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Translated short fiction: An elderly couple looks after each other with ulterior motives
Razia Sajjad Zaheer Saba Mahmood Bashir
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A new book brings a hidden lineage of Kerala’s theatre through stories of women actors and workers
Sajitha Madathil Jayasree Kalathil
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Sunday book pick: You don’t want to check out of Vicki Baum’s ‘Grand Hotel’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Book of Death’: Khalid Jawed’s novella ruminates on the futility of life and the writer’s role
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Translated fiction: During Bengal’s tebhaga struggle, sharecroppers lose whatever little they had
Showkat Ali V Ramaswamy Mohiuddin Jahangir
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Translated stories: A family of late risers gets a pleasant surprise when they wake up early one day
Mohammed Khadeer Babu DV Subhashri
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‘Discard your ego-self. Begin the journey’: Read 12th-century Persian poet Attar in English
Attar Sholeh Wolpé
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Building bridges: A new book explores Indo-French literary exchange in the works of five writers
Sheela Mahadevan
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‘Earth Song’: Poet Kanji Patel bridges an oppressive world and a free one
Kabir Deb
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‘Ittehad’: Interfaith love and coexistence in Sindh’s first woman writer, Guli Sadarangani’s novel
Soni Wadhwa
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‘No child of the Baloch has ever learned pity’: Classic Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif in translation
Shah Abdul Latif Christopher Shackle