literature
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How Karbala has influenced writers and poets in South Asia for centuries
Suleman Akhtar
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The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature announces its shortlist
Scroll Staff
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What led to the 13th-century revolution that made modern English poetry possible?
Eric Weiskott
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A literary mystery: Why did Premchand pose for a photograph in a torn shoe?
Harishankar Parsai
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How to be a young woman of Indian origin in North America and fail to fit in
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘A new literary culture does not permeate in Nepal unless it comes bundled with flashing lights’
Amish Raj Mulmi
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Should an author’s unfinished work be completed by someone else after their death?
Claire Squires, The Conversation
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This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history
Rana Safvi
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A reader from India has picked his Man Booker shortlist before the jury does
Ranjit Mankeshwar
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Three thousand years of erotica are fabulously encapsulated, but can’t erotica only be about sex?
Madhavi Menon
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Watch: Vladimir Nabokov’s first love was butterflies, which he collected on road trips across USA
Scroll Staff
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The erotic in the Indian imagination: A conflict between the romantics and the traditionalists
Amrita Narayanan
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Orhan Pamuk’s new novel will tell you how you cannot escape your past histories
Jai Arjun Singh
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‘The Pose’: Anwer Khan’s short story is one of the 25 greatest in Urdu, says an anthologist
Anwer Khan
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Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) not only wrote memorable science-fiction, but also defined the genre
Debkumar Mitra
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Photos: Chinese and Islamic influences come together in the Qurans printed in China
Colin F Baker Ursula Sims-Williams
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Born on India’s future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Opening lines from the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature longlist: Here’s how the 13 novels begin
Scroll
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How a 19th century Urdu play come to be translated in Hebrew script
Nur Sobers-Khan
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Eunice de Souza (1940-2017): Poet and inspirational teacher who lived with enjoyment and defiance
Rochelle Pinto