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‘Writing is a journey inside your head and sometimes the outside world is an obstacle’: Defne Suman
Diya Isha
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Translated short fiction: Putali, a pregnant cow, tries to birth her calf during fearsome rain
RR Borade Anjali Nerlekar
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‘Beggar’s Bedlam’: Nabarun Bhattacharya’s defiant, magic realist novel about class clashes in Bengal
Saloni Sharma
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Sunday book pick: A shocking tale about the mad pursuit of freedom in Stefan Zweig’s ‘A Chess Story’
Sayari Debnath
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Translated fiction: Aniruddhan tells the police that Mudritha has disappeared. He has never met her
Jissa Jose Jayasree Kalathil
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Translated short stories: Will the bridal party find a car in time to go to the bridegroom’s house?
Arupa Patangia Kalita Mitra Phukan
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‘Merely companies to conduct examinations’: What Lokmanya Tilak thought of Indian universities
Lokmanya Tilak Nadeem Khan Yashodhan Parande
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Fiction: Three women return to Chennai from the Gulf looking to reunite with their loved ones
Ramachandran Usha Krupa Ge
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‘I wished to live like a woman’: A Sri Lankan Tamil activist’s memoir about transitioning
Thanuja Singam Kiran Keshavamurthy
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Fiction: A mysterious man kindles Chintamoni’s dormant desires, bringing her love and money
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay Ipsa S
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‘The Story of Eve’: Zehra Nigah’s poetry makes the reader feel heard and understood
Ipshita Mitra
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Banaras Lit Fest 2025 Book Awards announces longlists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation
Scroll Staff
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Translated short fiction: A librarian gets trapped inside a dictionary. Will he be able to get out?
Unni R J Devika
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‘The Book of Exodus’: A rare novel about the meaning and meaninglessness of everyday living
Saurabh Sharma
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Translated fiction: An accidental meeting brings two academics, Ketaki and Aditya, together
Susham Bedi Astri Ghosh
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‘Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Ramayana’: A rebellious Sita and translating classical Assamese texts
Anannya Nath
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2024 Mozhi Prize: Jaideep Pandey wins this year’s prize for his translation of an Urdu short story
Scroll Staff
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Translated fiction: In 1741, King Marthandavarma thwarts the colonial ambitions of the Dutch
CV Raman Pillai GS Iyer
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‘Not such a bad thing’: Why did feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain say this about the burka?
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Ben Baer
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Translated Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Kaalam’, by MT Vasudevan Nair
MT Vasudevan NP Kuttanpillai