literature
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Easterine Kire, Pankaj Mishra, Prayaag Akbar, Pranay Lal bag top honours at the Tata Lit Live
Scroll Staff
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Jane Austen in Pakistan: A new book of short stories brings together two unlikely themes
Mahlia S Lone
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Two US doctors want to set a Tamil professorship at Harvard to take Sangam literature to the world
Vinita Govindarajan
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Shortlists for the Tata Literature Live! Awards announced
Scroll Staff
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With just 11 stories this collection goes to the core of Tamil writer Jayakanthan’s fiction
Kavitha Muralidharan
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How Mughal history inspired an American professor to weave a fantasy world that rivals Tolkien’s
Blake Smith
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The Jnanpith award celebrates Hindi writer Krishna Sobti’s exuberance as well as resistance
Ashutosh Bhardwaj
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Philip Pullman fans have no choice but to read his new novel (and new readers can start here)
Achala Upendran
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Giving a voice to the oppressed: Why Tamil writer Melanmai Ponnusamy (1951-2017) remained a Leftist
Kavitha Muralidharan
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Both life and literature were unconventional for Malayalam writer Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940-2017)
Anand Kochukudy
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As the debate over naming and shaming sexual harassers continues, ‘Disgrace’ is the book to read
Harsimran Gill
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What is untranslatable? Ten translators from Indian languages list their candidates
Shashank Bhargava
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This novel locates ‘King Lear’ in an Indian business empire. Dynasties, corruption and greed explode
Urvashi Bahuguna
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A ritual of rooftop meetings led to Perumal Murugan’s anthology of Tamil writing on caste
Perumal Murugan
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Ruskin Bond and Anees Salim are among the winners of this year’s Atta Galatta-BLF Book Prize
Scroll Staff
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How the shadow of the battle of Karbala has shaped Urdu literature
Asif Farrukhi
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British literature is richly tangled with other cultures. Why is it sold as largely white writing?
Erica Lombard, The Conversation Elleke Boehmer, The Conversation
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Two Man Bookers in a row: Why the British shouldn’t be sore at American literary success
Andrew Dix, The Conversation
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Five novels from America you must read (because they’re shortlisted for the US National Book Award)
Anu Kumar
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For the love of books: India’s ‘Invisible Libraries’ named as a finalist for the Jan Michalski Prize
Scroll Staff