‘Whenever I write a word / it lacks the meaning I intended’: An anthology of translated world poetry

Priya Sarukkai Chabria Fadwa Suleiman Marilyn Hacker Amit Dutta Ayswarya S Dutta Mangalesh Dabral Daisy Rockwell Kanhopatra Anjali Purohit Vitaly Pukhanov Philip Nikolayev

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Translated short fiction: Malka Begum is not impressed by what she sees on a trip to Delhi

Rashid Jahan Rakhshanda Jalil

· Mar 24, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Classic short stories from Karnataka: A baby stirs feelings of humanity in a tribe of cannibals

Nanajangudu Thirumalamba Susheela Punitha

· Mar 19, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Beloved is my eternal sun’: A new translation of Rumi’s poetry and parables by Farrukh Dhondy

Rumi Farrukh Dhondy

· Mar 17, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘The Madhouse’: Gyan Chaturvedi’s biting satire about the discontents of consumer culture

Pranvi Khare

· Mar 16, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘Hidden Treasure’: A novel that leaves the reader famished by what it reveals and for what it hides

Sakshi Nadkarni

· Mar 15, 2025 · 03:30 pm

Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Kesav Sunhu Prabeen,’ by Allison Busch

Allison Busch Reyazul Haque

· Mar 14, 2025 · 06:30 pm

Translated short fiction: A peculiar fever grips Amma during the cotton harvesting season

Senthil Jagannathan Anjana Shekar

· Mar 14, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Translated fiction: Who wants to kill Arulmozhi Varman, the beloved Ponniyin Selvan of the Lankans?

Kalki Nandini Krishnan

· Mar 13, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Literary translation and its discontents: An essay by translator Jayasree Kalathil

Jayasree Kalathil

· Mar 08, 2025 · 03:30 pm

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Sayari Debnath

· Mar 02, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision

Nikhil Govind

· Mar 01, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Heart Lamp’: Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-longlisted book is charged by women’s anger

Sayari Debnath

· Mar 01, 2025 · 07:35 am

Classic horror stories from Bengal: Neela and her father see a ghost in the dead of the night

Manik Bandyopadhyay Arundhati Nath

· Feb 26, 2025 · 05:30 pm

2025 International Booker Prize: Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi longlisted

Scroll Staff

· Feb 25, 2025 · 08:23 pm

Translated Hindi autobiography: An excerpt from ‘Apne Hi Dhun Mein’, by Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond Prabhat Singh

· Feb 25, 2025 · 06:30 pm

Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Sayari Debnath

· Feb 23, 2025 · 08:30 am

How the real murders behind Asako Yuzuki’s hit novel ‘Butter’ exposed Japanese media’s misogyny

Martina Baradel, The Conversation

· Feb 22, 2025 · 03:30 pm

Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu

Perumal Murugan V Iswarya

· Feb 21, 2025 · 08:30 am

Translated romance fiction: As their enmity turns to love, Ram and Anandhi face impossible choices

Akhil P Dharmajan Haritha CK

· Feb 20, 2025 · 05:30 pm