literature
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Revisiting the works of Rajkamal Chowdhary, the writer whom Hindi literature could never categorise
Saudamini Deo
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The story of ‘Chocolate’, the Hindi story published in 1924 that created a furore over homosexuality
Rohit Chakraborty
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Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is a woman of our times
Sally O'Reilly, The Conversation
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Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry
Anupama Raju
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Don’t listen to the critics – science fiction explores what it means to be human in the truest way
Gene Tracy
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Just how global is the 2019 Man Booker International Prize longlist of translated fiction?
Sana Goyal
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This highly dramatic Thai novel is a meditation on sorrow and loneliness (because it is about love)
Suhasini Patni
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‘We have an assembly line approach to writing about books’: Anjum Hasan on literary criticism
Arunava Sinha
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‘Writing my novel was an artistic as well as erotic experience’, one novelist tells another
Vivek Shanbhag
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Do literary translations need financial patronage? Ask Kalpana Raina, who has been doing just that
Mohini Gupta
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Namvar Singh (1927-2019) was the most powerful critic and influencer of modern Hindi literature
Priyadarshan
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Enheduanna: The world’s first known author was a priestess in ancient Mesopotamia
Louise Pryke, The Conversation
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To read Samanta Schweblin’s short stories is to expect a dry mouth and a loss of words
Sana Goyal
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Can men write convincingly about women in fiction? This collection of Urdu stories shows how
Ipshita Nath
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‘A Handful Of Sesame’: This Kannada novel places the reader at the centre of a broken universe
Suhasini Patni
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How can literature catch a sense of lived time? Are both fiction and living a necessary illusion?
Prasanta Chakravarty
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A hodgepodge of scumbags, orgies, and the breakdown of society: Also known as Juvenal’s ‘Satires’
Robert Cowan, The Conversation
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Mohsin Hamid represents Pakistani literature to many, but gives no real sense of Muslim existence
Zain R Mian
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What translating Krishna Sobti revealed: She did not write to help the reader understand
Daisy Rockwell
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Krishna Sobti (1925-2019): The fearless writer who always put her relationship with herself on trial
Sukrita Paul Kumar