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‘Women need their own rooms in their own worlds’: Deepa Bhasthi on translating the female language
Deepa Bhasthi
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‘The Phantom’s Howl’: A nifty little trove of emotionally complex, modern Bengali ghost stories
Projit Bihari Mukharji
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Satyaji Ray at 104: In this horror story for children, a ghost finds a friend after 32 lonely years
Satyajit Ray Gopa Majumdar
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From the autobiography: What Ram Prasad Bismil wrote in secret about his life while on death row
Ram Prasad Bismil Awadhesh Tripathi
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‘They’re going to close our river’: Manto’s 1950s story about the India-Pakistan water dispute
Saadat Hasan Manto Rakhshanda Jalil
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Sunday book pick: Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’ is a total romp
Sayari Debnath
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‘Maguni’s Bullock Cart and Other Classic Odia Stories’: A glimpse into Odisha’s literary tradition
Mahika Dhar
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‘Unmoored’: Translated Tamil novella about migration takes the reader on a journey of their own
Nandan S Kaushik
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From the autobiography: ‘Narmad’, a pioneer of modern Gujarati literature, recounts his childhood
Narmadashankar Dave Abhijit Kothari
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Fiction: A retired man is forced to return to work after builders foil his attempts to buy a house
MR Dattathri
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Fiction: Draupadi witnesses a grotesque act. Should she inform the police or protect her peace?
Gourahari Das Manoranjan Mishra
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‘Our heart is a hill / Underneath it, a Buddha sleeps’: A writer muses on Buddha and his teachings
Geet Chaturvedi Anita Gopalan
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‘Boats Nudged into the Sea’: Ambai on text, translation and authors who refuse to die
Ambai
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The short stories in ‘The Second Marriage Of Kunju Namboodiri’ give new life to Malayalam classics
Mahika Dhar
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‘The Day the Earth Bloomed’: An evocative tale of travel, poverty, beauty, and rhythms of language
Nikhil Govind
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Translated short fiction: The scrawny cat that Mahadi so despises was once the pet he loved
Fatimah Busu Pauline Fan
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‘With an accent’: How Deepa Bhasthi translated International Booker Prize-shortlisted ‘Heart Lamp’
Sayari Debnath
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International Booker Prize shortlist: From Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
Banu Mushtaq Deepa Bhasthi
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2025 International Booker Prize: India’s Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi shortlisted for ‘Heart Lamp’
Scroll Staff
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‘Quality translation is important to increase readership’: AJ Thomas, editor of ‘100 Indian Stories’
Majid Maqbool