What makes the ‘Hitopadesha’ a timeless text on human behaviour? It is its playful language

Shonaleeka Kaul

· Aug 09, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Why Jhumpa Lahiri says translating herself is ‘bewildering, paradoxical, doomed from start’

Sayari Debnath

· Aug 06, 2022 · 08:30 am

A young doctor’s contentious divorce makes her wonder if women can ever live truly independent lives

KR Meera

· Jul 29, 2022 · 05:30 pm

A new prize for translating books from South Asian languages into English has been announced

Scroll Staff

· Jul 29, 2022 · 02:27 pm

‘Breaking Free’: Devdasis find feminist solidarity in history, memories, and secrets in this novel

Vaasanthi

· Jul 27, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘A woman and fire are as ancient as civilisation’: Six Dalit-feminist poems by Poonam Tushamad

Poonam Tushamad

· Jul 25, 2022 · 08:30 am

This Malayalam novel is a sweeping family saga playing out amidst the mysteries of the forest

Sheela Tomy

· Jul 23, 2022 · 12:30 pm

This epic challenges dominant Telugu literary styles to reflect the existential status of Dalits

Gurram Jashuva

· Jul 22, 2022 · 08:30 am

Slice-of-life novel set in corridors of a BHU hostel captures eccentricities of college life

Satya Vyas

· Jul 20, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘The Silentiary’: This novel from Argentina is classic literature for victims of expectations

Rohit Thombre

· Jul 18, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Sister Lucy Kalapura tells the story of her protest against a bishop for sexual assault in this book

Sister Lucy Kalapura

· Jul 18, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Authors are great, translators are not’: Shanta Gokhale on being a translator

Shanta Gokhale

· Jul 17, 2022 · 08:30 am

Kathryn Hansen: ‘Even knowing one South Asian language very well is not enough to translate’

Suzanne L Schulz

· Jul 16, 2022 · 08:30 am

The borders of reality are porous in these stories of spirits and other elements of the supernatural

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

· Jul 13, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Myth and history come together with magic realism in this recently translated Bengali novel

Amar Mitra

· Jul 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘The Wait And Other Stories’: Damodar Mauzo reaches into cracks and crevices in search of Goa

Sayari Debnath

· Jun 26, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Hungry Humans’: The myth of personal choice in lives shaped by chance and deliberate ways of people

Aishwarya Dani

· Jun 12, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Birds of the Snows’: Tarannum Riyaz’s novel charts the fateful journey of a family in Kashmir

Tarannum Riyaz

· Jun 10, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Mai’: International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree’s first novel also talks of generations of women

Geetanjali Shree

· Jun 07, 2022 · 08:30 am

Former International Booker winner Jokha Alharthi’s latest novel leaves a bittersweet aftertaste

Sayari Debnath

· Jun 05, 2022 · 12:30 pm