literature
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Eight books for those of us who cannot live in Kashmir
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Murakami writes as mysteriously as ever about men without women, but somewhere the magic is missing
Arunima Mazumdar
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Beyond Premchand and Manto: Hindi theatre is finding inspiration in the writings of Vijaydan Detha
Malini Nair
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Can you spot the Nanavati murder case in these Salman Rushdie and Indra Sinha novels?
Anvar Alikhan
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How to write for global readers in an Indian accent
Rheea Mukherjee
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Science has outgrown the human mind – it’s time to automate scientific discovery
Ahmed Alkhateeb
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Let’s face it, writing is hell. But that is what makes some of it ‘world leading’
Dominic Wyse, The Conversation
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The resurgence of religion has not come despite modernisation but because of it
Vikash Singh
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An (imaginary) opening lecture on Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Five Point Someone’ at a Delhi University college
Devapriya Roy
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How Robert Pirsig’s ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ changed the way I think
Girish Shahane
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Why this literary heroine could never chill, and why you shouldn’t either
Manasi Subramaniam
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Would human beings be happier if they became trees?
Shireen Quadri
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This Indian author wrote his stories in French. Is that why we don’t remember him?
Blake Smith
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The Partition fiction very few people read: The literature of displacement from Assam’s Barak Valley
Suranjana Choudhury
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Through more than 200 stories, Ashokamitran wrote the one big story in which we find ourselves
N Kalyan Raman
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Watch: What is poetry, exactly? Is an answer even possible?
Scroll Staff
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Fourteen Marathi classics, handpicked by Bhalchandra Nemade, that must be read (and translated)
Devapriya Roy
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‘My gurus demand I make no calculations about what is acceptable and what is offensive when I write'
Jerry Pinto
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If it wasn’t enough that Jhumpa Lahiri has translated this novel, it is also a response to Ferrante
Anu Kumar
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Elif Shafak’s new book gives Muslim women the novel they deserve (but it needs a second draft)
Sameen Borker