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Fiction: Bhushan, a refugee from East Bengal, wanders about Calcutta’s streets searching for himself
Alka Saraogi John Vater
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‘See how my murshid ... rows us through the world’s chaos’: Poems for every month of the year
Peero Neeti Singh
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Horror fiction: Three friends meet the ghost of the emperor and his begum in Qutubpur
Hemendra Kumar Roy Barnali Saha
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‘Kaaya’: A carefully, if haphazardly, stitched novel about body as a site of desire and violence
Shreya Khobragade
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Translated short fiction: Jameel’s outspoken servant, Nazru, puts him in a sticky situation
Muhammad Hasan Askari Mehr Afshan Farooqui
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Short fiction by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay: Who will conduct the prayers after Aparna leaves?
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay Anchita Ghatak
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Fiction: Gulabiya and Balesar’s escape from servitude will shake the very earth they till for others
Abha Purbey Shivangi Tejaswi Rawal
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‘You must, in some sense, go mad with literature’: Writer Vivek Shanbhag
Parul Sehgal
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‘Commercial and genre fiction in Indian languages shouldn’t be overlooked’: Translator Poonam Saxena
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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‘Taiwan Travelogue’ by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, wins 2026 International Booker Prize
Scroll Staff
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Translated fiction: A young man desperately wants to become ‘Bolero Class’, but fate turns rogue
Prabhat Ranjan Satyadeep Chhetri
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The 2026 International Booker Prize shortlist, dominated by women writers, is a portal to new worlds
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Freshly minted MBA graduate Pawan Pande realises the corporate ladder is more of a maze
Mamta Kalia Jerry Pinto
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Short fiction: Dalit women in a Punjab village ward off lecherous dominant-caste men
Bhura Singh Kaler Akshaya Kumar Navdeep Singh
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‘The self is all pervasive like ether’: A new translation of the Isa Upanisad for the modern reader
Nachiketa Jha
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How literary critic DR Nagaraj engaged with 12th-century philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu in his work
NS Gundur
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Banibrata Mahanta wins 2025 Muse India Translation Award for translating Hindi novel, ‘Lavanyadevi’
Scroll Staff
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Kalki’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan’: Rival factions gather at Kadambur Palace, awaiting crucial decisions
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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Life story: What a five-paise reward taught writer Vasudhendra about not being wasteful
Vasudhendra Narayan Shankaran
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‘Weird, delightful, refreshing’: Anupama Raju on translating writer Paul Zacharia’s ‘imagination’
Anupama Raju