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Take two: Amruta Patil goes graphic with Shiv and Sati in her version of 'The Mahabharata'
Amruta Patil
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First read: Namita Gokhale’s ambitious saga intertwining women, history and the Himalayas
Namita Gokhale
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When Donald Trump was a motivational writer, these are some of the things he wrote (with some help)
Scroll Staff
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Almost taken for a ride: How Kanhaiya Kumar used his innate survival skills on moving to Delhi
Kanhaiya Kumar
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Tata Literature Live! Awards longlists announced
Scroll Staff
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How Valmik Thapar came to know the tigress queen Padmini and her cubs
Valmik Thapar
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Years after his death, Habib Tanvir’s letters tell the story of a love he did not acknowledge
Jill MacDonald
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Four questions to ask a writer at a litfest (and five questions to avoid)
Devapriya Roy
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Why this author just hates the fiction writing orgy known as #NaNoWriMo
Krishna Udaysankar
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We translated the Marquis de Sade’s most obscene work. Here’s what we learnt about vulgarities
Will McMorran, The Conversation
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Why are sports books not bestsellers when sports is so big in India?
Kanishka Gupta
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Growing up in the North East with the poetry and literature of insurgency
Nabina Das
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'The cultural moorings are still there. Now you can get feta cheese too': William Dalrymple on Delhi
William Brown
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Meet Deepak Unnikrishnan, the Indian writer in the US you’ll soon hear about
Anu Kumar
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Futile debate: It's time to stop predicting a winner in the book versus e-book battle
Simone Natale and Andrea Ballatore, The Conversation
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Jeffrey Archer is back with a new book, and it’s the end of a journey
Jeffrey Archer
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The backdrop of war and violence make Sri Lankan novels gut-wrenching. This one shows why
Anu Kumar
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As Man Booker winner Paul Beatty is about to find out, literary celebrity changes everything
Rebecca Braun, The Conversation
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How the use of the present tense in fiction is making readers...tense
Camilla Nelson, The Conversation
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JM Coetzee’s new novel asks a crucial question: When everyone’s the same, can a person be different?
Arnab Chakraborty