literature
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The German book of ghost stories that inspired Mary Shelley to write ‘Frankenstein’
Fabio Camilletti, The Conversation
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‘Cosmopolitician’: Eight poems by Mustansir Dalvi that merge dreams and reality
Mustansir Dalvi
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‘Milkman’: This year’s Man Booker winner ensures we do not underestimate ourselves as readers
Sana Goyal
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‘Radicalism isn’t a fever or a rash. You don’t wake up with it one morning’: Novelist Fatima Bhutto
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘Jasmine Days’ by Benyamin, a novel in translation, wins the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature
Scroll Staff
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These videos tell stories about each of the five novels shortlisted for the JCB Prize
Scroll Staff
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Man Booker Prize 2018: Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’, but big publishers are the real victors
Leigh Wilson, The Conversation
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Is a novel worth reading just because it’s on the Man Booker Prize shortlist?
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Why are many Bengali rhymes and songs for children, loved by generations, so misogynistic?
Dipika Mukherjee
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Vishnu Khare (1940-2018) influenced Hindi literature hugely with what he wrote and what he taught
Prachand Praveer
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Do we really understand the minds of others? Fiction writers do not give us much hope that we do
Kanta Dihal, Aeon
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Interview: Can the famed ‘little magazine’ culture of Bengali literature thrive in the digital age?
Chandrima Pal
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JCB Prize longlist: What we think about when we think about contemporary fiction from India
Sana Goyal
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Our adventurous reader is back with his version of the 2018 Man Booker shortlist before the real one
Ranjit Mankeshwar
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Good riddance to bad 377: A reading list to celebrate
Urvashi Bahuguna
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How is VS Naipaul received in the classrooms of his homeland (the Caribbean, not India)?
J. Vijay Maharaj, The Conversation
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KM Munshi’s philosophy of Gujarati ‘asmita’ and a revised version of history is a familiar one today
Rita Kothari Abhijit Kothari
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‘We have to seek the outlier, not the mainstream writer’: Arshia Sattar on judging literary prizes
Kanishka Gupta
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Why Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel ‘Sabrina’ deserves to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Sourjya Mitra
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Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami selected as finalists for the ‘Alternative Literature Nobel’
Scroll Staff