Anukrti Upadhyay’s new book of short stories is a vivid portrait of strange and enigmatic lives

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Feb 03, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Hawa Hawa’: In Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, Calcutta is a festering wound that refuses to heal

Sayari Debnath

· Jan 28, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Indian writers abroad: Chaitali Sen examines migration, power, longing in her new short stories

Chaitali Sen

· Jan 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka is as witty and imaginative as ever in his new short stories

Sayari Debnath

· Nov 05, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘The Monkey’s Wound and Other Stories’: How women rebel against the cruel structures of patriarchy

Areeb Ahmad

· Oct 30, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘My Name is Not Malini’: Read Shehan Karunatilaka’s story from his new collection of short fiction

Shehan Karunatilaka

· Oct 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Happy Stories, Mostly’ is in fact a collection of melancholy stories about people who do bad things

Sahana Hegde

· Apr 24, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘The Primeval Song’: This story is one of the 26 modern Telugu short stories in a new anthology

GR Maharshi

· Feb 16, 2022 · 05:30 pm

These posthumous stories of Dhaka by the author of ‘Babu Bangladesh!’ remind us of his talent

Sayari Debnath

· Oct 30, 2021 · 08:30 am

Why ‘The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories’ deserves a space on every feminist and political bookshelf

Saloni Sharma

· Jul 24, 2021 · 08:30 am

In this book of short stories women do things they are not expected to in India

Sayantani Dasgupta

· Mar 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Middle-class urban women confront critical moments in their lives in these short stories

Rituparna Roy

· Jan 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Can a book be haunted? Read this story from a collection of intimate tales from forgotten places

Aruni Kashyap

· Oct 30, 2019 · 08:30 am

A retirement home for domestic workers, but who are they? One of the ‘Strange’ stories in a new book

Shreya Sen Handley

· Sep 02, 2019 · 08:30 am

A collection of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s short stories embodies his signature writing against the grain

Sanjay Sipahimalani

· May 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind

Karthik Shankar

· Apr 28, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Waiting’: A short story collection shows us the inner lives of women but doesn’t ask new questions

Jenny Bhatt

· Apr 14, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Cat Person’ took the world by storm – do the rest of Kristen Roupenian’s short stories match up?

Supriya Nair

· Feb 23, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Waiting’: The private worlds of women open up in this unsparing collection of short stories

Nighat Gandhi

· Feb 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘No Presents Please’ by Jayant Kaikini wins the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018

Scroll Staff

· Jan 25, 2019 · 07:51 pm