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Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti on how Kannada poetry is influenced by translation and rewriting
Kirtinath Kurtkoti Kamalakar Bhat
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Sunday book pick: The sex lives of Iranian housewives in Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Embroideries’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Inseparables’: Simone de Beauvoir’s novella speaks of the crushing weight borne by women
Kshipra Hada
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Fiction: A traditional aristocratic Bengali family transitions into modernity after Independence
Kusum Khemani Mahanta Banibrata
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Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Anna Bhau Sathe’, by Vishwas Patil
Vishwas Patil Suresh Maheshwari
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Fiction: 70-year-old Unnikrishnan calls a press conference to announce the date of his death
M Mukundan Nandakumar K
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Crossword Book Awards: Saharu N Kannanari, Karthik Muralidharan, Jayasree Kalathil among winners
Scroll Staff
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Translated Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Neel Chhavi’, by Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi Maheshwar
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Translated Hindi nonfiction: ‘My Autobiography’, by Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Suraj Prakash
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‘The Rainbow Runners’: An affecting novel about insurgencies in Assam despite some occasional bumps
Ananya Kaushik
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Sunday book pick: ‘My Heavenly Favourite’, a novel about sexual grooming puts the reader in a trance
Sayari Debnath
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Why tales about Bonbibi, guardian spirit of Sunderbans, are so important to the region’s literature
Tony K Stewart
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Fiction: Poorani’s life turns into an endless crisis after her father dies, till she meets Aravindan
Na Parthasarathy Malini Seshadri
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Biography: Ayyappa Paniker left an indelible mark on academia, Malayalam literature, and his mentees
Priyadas G Mangalath Radhika P Menon
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Fiction: Young Langdya blackmails the school principal when he learns of his affair with a teacher
Shrikant Bojewar Vikrant Pande
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‘The Menstrual Coupé’: These experimental stories about women’s lives and sexuality are a revelation
Rahul Singh
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Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
Sayari Debnath
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Translated Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Khamoshi Ka Arth Parajay Nahin Hota’
Amitabh Chakraborty
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‘Darkness has spread, prudence is lost’: Read Urdu poet Zehra Nigah’s poems in translation
Zehra Nigah Rakhshanda Jalil
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Translated Hindi fiction: An excerpt from ‘Lajja’, by Taslima Nasreen
Taslima Nasreen Munmun Sarkar