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A coffin-maker and a clock that can make time go backwards bring magical realism to this novel

VJ James
· 4 hours ago
Even modern travel across the Arabian desert is an unpredictable adventure, shows this travelogue

E Santhosh Kumar
· Yesterday · 06:10 pm
A tragic love story in Marathi, set on a ship on the brink of WWII, gets an English translation

Vishram Bedekar
· Jun 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always

Namita Gokhale
· Jun 16, 2021 · 08:30 am
What can happen in a country when extremists take over? This novel foresees its future

Shah Tazrian Ashrafi
· Jun 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Where Satyajit Ray brings alive the genius of three generations of the Ray family in one book

Saikat Majumdar
· Jun 12, 2021 · 08:30 am
‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’: Classic Hindi novel set in girls’ college gets English translation

Usha Priyamvada
· Jun 09, 2021 · 05:47 pm
‘These days I enjoy getting irritated from time to time’: The unexpected prose poems of Joy Goswami

Joy Goswami
· May 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Writer Shivani’s charming little memoir of life at Tagore’s university can now be read in English

Shivani
· May 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm
This novel records the epic journey of a woman’s bid to break free after a bad marriage

R Vatsala
· May 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’

Hemang Desai
· May 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm
In Ambai’s new collection of short stories, a wild, unbounded energy binds death-themed narratives

Vibha Balaji
· May 08, 2021 · 12:30 pm
Opening lines: How the six books shortlisted for the International Booker Prize begin

Scroll Staff
· May 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Manzoor Ahtesham (1948-2021): Remembering the writer with his novel ‘The Tale of the Missing Man’

Manzoor Ahtesham
· May 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘Theeyoor Chronicles’: Why are there so many suicides and disappearances in the land of fire?

N Prabhakaran
· Apr 26, 2021 · 06:30 pm
‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma

Salma
· Apr 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)

Shankha Ghosh
· Apr 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm
A forest has fallen silent in grief in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s eerie new novel in translation

Vinod Kumar Shukla
· Apr 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Sarah Joseph’s new novel imagines the life of the woman who was ostracised for ‘marrying’ Nehru

Sarah Joseph
· Apr 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘The Curse’: Salma’s short stories talk of women being suffocated in their domestic spaces

Yashasvi Arunkumar
· Apr 03, 2021 · 08:30 am