books
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Those poems you read in school are not what Indian poetry in English really is
Rosinka Chaudhuri
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Scroll Staff
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Literary friendships that lead to better books (but also ferocious fights)
Karthik Venkatesh
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Teju Cole’s essays offer as much richness as his fiction, and are just as imaginative
Anu Kumar
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Yoda Press wins Publishing Next's Publisher of the Year award
Scroll Staff
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The Indian food memoir is the newest way to cook, eat, love, live
Neha Bhatt
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The Man Booker shortlist shows how literary prizes can still help readers find unusual books
Spencer Jordan, The Conversation
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A response to author Lionel Shriver’s controversial speech: Is cultural appropriation a passing fad?
Krishna Udaysankar
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Kids more likely to read books they pick out themselves: survey
Scroll Staff
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Hoshang Merchant wrote his first ever poem after listening to MS Subbulakshmi
Hoshang Merchant
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Why did MS Subbulakshmi run away from her mother’s attempt to find a man for her?
TJS George
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Ten recent photographs from Nepal that could have been taken any time in the past 100 years
Sujoy Das and Lisa Choegyal
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Opening lines: How to start reading the six novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Scroll Staff
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The man behind Matilda: What Roald Dahl, who would have been 100 today, was really like
Pojana Maneeyingsakul, The Conversation
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Why Cyrus Broacha was forced to write a book on 'ways to make a girl fall for you'
Cyrus Broacha
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Why we must keep trying to deconstruct the troubled genius of David Foster Wallace
Binit Priyaranjan
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Can trees count? How do they know when to shed their leaves?
Peter Wohlleben
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It’s 25 years since ‘A Strange and Sublime Address’ opened the gate to Indian writers in English
Saikat Majumdar
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A salute to you, Shaheed Quaderi (1942-2016), the quintessential poet of Dhaka
Rifat Munim
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A five course banquet of books to eat your way through
Devapriya Roy