literature
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In Pakistan, English fiction is gathering pace in its search for approval and recognition
Maniza Naqvi
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Want to read novels by women? Start with the 16 novels longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘My work on language and power was an elaboration of a Tagorean sentiment’: Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Devapriya Roy
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Rana Dasgupta on why the newest and richest literary award for Indian fiction will be a gamechanger
Poonam Ganglani
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Fifty years later, Shrilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’ is being reborn as modern Indian literature
Ulka Anjaria
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‘A Laughing Girl on the Back Seat of a Scooter’: A vintage story by a Pakistani writer
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
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How a linguistics teacher created an entire anarchist language inspired by Ursula K le Guin
Martin Edwardes, The Conversation
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o urges intellectuals to rally against the ‘destroyers’ of the world
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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Why the ‘Fifty Shades’ books have a lot in common with a story from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’
Marta Cobb, The Conversation
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The adventures of a Lucknowi flaneur should be required reading in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh
Malini Nair
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Poetry is more popular than ever. Then why are not all poets happy about it?
JT Welsch, The Conversation
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North Korea’s fiction factory churns out a large number of novels and stories. Who reads them?
Meredith Shaw, The Conversation
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Photos and translations: The unique semi-pictographic dongba script of China’s Naxi people
Duncan Poupard
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Five newly published poets reveal new directions for Indian poetry in English
Urvashi Bahuguna
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From clothing to recreation: An 1847 book gave British women advice on what to carry to India
Margaret Makepeace
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Turning 200: The ‘Scottish Jane Austen’ was much more satirical about marriage than the real one
Susan Ferrier
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What Ekin Oklap can tell readers about translating Orhan Pamuk
Ipshita Mitra
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Illustrations: In the Dakhni romantic tale ‘Phulban’, love meets conspiracy and adventure
Sunil Sharma
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JRR Tolkien’s Christmas letters to his children bring echoes of Middle-Earth to the North Pole
Dimitra Fimi, The Conversation
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Arunachal author Mamang Dai among 24 winners of 2017 Sahitya Akademi awards
Scroll Staff