Fiction: The state drives a poor but brilliant boy to destruction in newly-independent Bangladesh

Shahidul Zahir

· Apr 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Cursed Bunny’: These anti-fairy tales of capitalism and patriarchy are shrouded in phantasmagoria

Santa Nibedita

· Apr 15, 2023 · 11:30 am

Finally translated into English, ‘The Bride’ reveals the peculiar practices of marriages

Sharmistha Jha

· Apr 15, 2023 · 08:30 am

Fiction: Pandaram makes his money from the deformed beggars he owns. What’s their world like?

Jeyamohan

· Apr 11, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new anthology shows the richness and diversity of the modern short story from Bangladesh

Humayun Ahmed

· Apr 10, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Read: Ten flash fiction pieces by Joginder Paul in their first English translation

Joginder Paul

· Apr 06, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A newly-translated Nepali novel set in 1980s’ Darjeeling is a cautionary tale of a failed movement

Lekhnath Chhetri

· Apr 06, 2023 · 11:30 am

Dalpat Chauhan’s short stories depict violence, terror that Dalits face in their day to day lives

Dalpat Chauhan

· Apr 05, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Fiction: A schoolteacher and farmers join hands to fight atrocities in Tamil Nadu’s black soil areas

Ponneelan

· Apr 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘My intention is to be as authentic as possible to what Veda Vyasa said’: Translator Bibek Debroy

Avik Chanda

· Apr 01, 2023 · 09:20 am

Fiction: Stories by Kannada writer Kodagina Gouramma Gouramma, who wrote of dowry and widowhood

Kodagina Gouramma

· Mar 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new novel follows a luminous female friendship as two women take on love, life, and patriarchy

R Rajasree

· Mar 27, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Gauri Datt’s 1870 book, often considered the first Hindi novel, gets its first English translation

Gauri Datt

· Mar 23, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Something sinister is afoot. Will detective Antonia Scott leave retirement to solve the crimes?

Juan Gómez-Jurado

· Mar 22, 2023 · 05:30 pm

VJ James’s new novel: Freddie disappears in a forest in search of a rare new bird. Will he be found?

VJ James

· Mar 13, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new book of short stories follows small-town young Indian women trying to make it big in cities

Anu Singh Choudhary

· Mar 10, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Kural’ versus ‘Kural’: The aesthetics and politics of two translations of Tiruvalluvar’s classic

Suchitra Ramachandran

· Mar 05, 2023 · 07:30 pm

A new set of Imayam’s short stories have been translated into English from the Tamil

Imayam

· Mar 03, 2023 · 05:30 pm

This new anthology features Bengali writers who wrote about man-made and supernatural spectres

Dinesh Chandra Sen

· Mar 01, 2023 · 05:30 pm

International Mother Language Day: 15 Indian language books to read in translation

Scroll Staff

· Feb 21, 2023 · 11:30 am