literature
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What the JCB Prize for Literature longlist reveals, and what it leaves out, about India today
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
Prerna Vij
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How translators achieve harmony, and why this is not a threat to the writers they translate
Suchitra Ramachandran
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‘Observe, analyse, reinterpret’: The aim of a new collection of folk tales and legends from India
Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai
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Booker Prize longlist 2021: Opening lines of the 13 novels
Scroll Staff
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On top of the world: How writers seek solace in hill station literature
Rajni George
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Finally! In her new book of essays, Joan Didion tells us how she became a writer
Yamini Krishnan
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Interview: Does a literary jury need to think differently in the year of a pandemic?
Kanishka Gupta
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With the deaths of its pillars Anil Dharker and Shashi Baliga, what lies ahead for Tata Litlive?
Selina Sheth
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A reader’s guide to the six books shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2021
Suhasini Patni
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Homen Borgohain (1932-2021): Remembering the Assamese writer with his greatest novel, ‘Matsyagandha’
Homen Borgohain
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After the coup: Will literature in Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Literary Festival be the same again?
Dipika Mukherjee
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These are the 11 books in progress that the Rs 18-lakh New India Foundation fellowships will support
Scroll Staff
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Even before Covid-19, fiction and memoirs were talking about physical and mental health
Cynthia Spada, The Conversation
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Virginia Woolf died 80 years ago. What does reading her work in the midst of a pandemic bring us?
Jess Cotton, The Conversation
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From Goa to London with Graham Greene: A first-person account of a literary friendship
Maria Aurora Couto
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Bards from the dawn-lit mountains: What is the literature of Arunachal Pradesh?
Yater Nyokir
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‘We text, text, text, our significant words’: Poems for those in long-distance relationships
Kate North, The Conversation
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‘Krishnayan’: The women in Krishna’s life talk about him in this bestselling Gujarati novel
Kaajal Oza Vaidya
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As the awards season approaches, a poet and editor offers some suggestions to the Sahitya Akademi
Medha Singh