malayalam
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Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight
Indu Menon
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‘Anti-Clock’: A complicated man’s complicated relationship with religion – and with revenge
Yamini Krishnan
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A coffin-maker and a clock that can make time go backwards bring magical realism to this novel
VJ James
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After criticism, Delhi hospital withdraws order barring nurses from speaking in Malayalam
Scroll Staff
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‘Theeyoor Chronicles’: Why are there so many suicides and disappearances in the land of fire?
N Prabhakaran
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This collection of Gracy’s short stories in translation is a frank celebration of female desire
Gracy
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‘The Bar’: This story by Paul Zacharia is part of the ‘Out of Print’ anthology now out in print
Paul Zacharia
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Weekend Quiz: Which 18th-century Kerala art form accompanies the recitation of satirical verse?
The Heritage Lab
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Moustache: This magical, playful novel features people made not of flesh and blood, but of stories
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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What are the ethics of thievery? VJ James’s ‘Chorashastra’ is a wicked study in irony and symbolism
Varsha Ramachandran
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‘The Dance of the Masks’: A man lives in isolation, oblivious of the pandemic. Then he goes out
VH Nishad
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An American teacher’s online Malayalam lessons have won her a following even in Kerala
Vandana Menon
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‘It was difficult to imagine that people can run a trade in organs’: Benyamin on his new novel
Shevlin Sebastian
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‘A single spark will do’: Malayalam rap number highlights the struggles of marginalised workers
Scroll Staff
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‘Chorashastra’: What if a petty thief is taught the science of opening locks with his eyes?
VJ James
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Watch: Shreya Ghoshal loves this man’s cover of her song, which he has performed in a female voice
Scroll Staff
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When the upper caste fears a Dalit’s moustache: This Malayalam novel is a work of magic and realism
S Hareesh
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Remembering ‘Vidooshakan’, the journal that published the first Malayalam cartoon 100 years ago
Nassif Ali
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‘The Angel’s Beauty Spots’: Love and violence are blended into KR Meera’s new book of novellas
KR Meera
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‘Guru, why didn’t you speak to Gandhi in English?’ Unni R’s short stories are wildly original
Unni R