From the memoir: A ‘rental person’ on providing services to lonely and socially anxious people

Shoji Morimoto Angus Turvill

· Oct 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A writer holds seances with Shah Jahan, who is elbowed out by Aurangzeb, to write a novel

Charu Nivedita Nandini Krishnan

· Oct 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘My book isn’t rock-n-roll. I wanted to imitate Chopin’s minimalism’: Geet Chaturvedi on ‘Simsim’

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Oct 13, 2023 · 11:30 am

Shanta Gokhale on why she and Jerry Pinto translated Marathi poet Tukaram’s hymns as a ‘jugalbandi’

Shanta Gokhale

· Oct 12, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘A writer shouldn’t stay with his story for too long’: Manoj Rupda on ‘I Named My Sister Silence’

Sayari Debnath

· Oct 10, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘Dudiya: In Your Burning Land’: Finely-balanced autofiction about Naxal movement in Chhattisgarh

Chittajit Mitra

· Oct 08, 2023 · 02:30 pm

‘The Nemesis’: In a caste-sick society, anger is the only choice for Manoranjan Byapari’s alter ego

Sayari Debnath

· Oct 08, 2023 · 12:30 pm

‘Sakina’s Kiss’: How dated ideas of masculinity are suffocating the great Indian family

Sayari Debnath

· Oct 08, 2023 · 08:30 am

Why Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving a ‘voice to the unsayable’

Alexander Howard, The Conversation

· Oct 06, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Fiction: William’s dream of returning changes not only his destiny but also the land

Ali Akbar Natiq Naima Rashid

· Oct 05, 2023 · 05:30 pm

In translation: Kashmiri writer Hari Krishna Kaul’s short stories reach English-language readers

Hari Krishna Kaul Kalpana Raina, Tanveer Ajsi, Gowhar Fazili, Gowhar Yaqoob

· Oct 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new book brings 14 short stories of Bengali women authors from Bangladesh and India in translation

Tilottama Majumdar Subarna Banerjee

· Sep 25, 2023 · 05:30 pm

What kind of casteism, sexual violence, and dire poverty are modern ‘devadasis’ subjected to?

Arun Ezhuthachan Meera Gopinath

· Sep 25, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Won’t You Stay, Radhika?’: A rich tapestry of rumination on what we miss when we leave our homeland

Akshaj Awasthi

· Sep 24, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop’: An optimistic novel about the life-changing power of books

Aditi Yadav

· Sep 23, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Fire Bird’: Perumal Murugan could have shaped the novel’s characters with a more decisive force

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

· Sep 23, 2023 · 07:30 am

Translated fiction: Perumal Murugan’s new book of short stories travels across rural Tamil Nadu

Perumal Murugan Kavitha Muralidharan

· Sep 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Between two World Wars, Syed Mujtaba Ali set out on a ship from India to Europe. This is his story

Syed Mujtaba Ali Nazes Afroz

· Sep 20, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘I write life on paper’: Taslima Nasrin’s poetry has been translated into English for the first time

Taslima Nasrin Jesse Waters

· Sep 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi story is one of 50 in a new volume of (mostly) translated short fiction

Amrita Pritam Khushwant Singh

· Sep 14, 2023 · 05:30 pm