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International Booker shortlist: Ghostly men and ghosts of men in ‘On Earth As It Is Beneath’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Light and Thread’ by Han Kang: A necessary counterforce that values silence and the ‘unsaid’
Reeti Roy
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‘The Meiji Guillotine’: An excellent historical crime narrative that blends tradition and modernity
Saptak Choudhury
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Horror fiction: Why a poltergeist’s logic does not answer the troubled mind of humans
Shihabuddin Poyithumkadavu Venugopal Menon
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2026 International Booker Prize: Opening lines from the six shortlisted novels for curious readers
Scroll Staff
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Of translation, transgression, and transcreation: A conversation on knowledge across languages
Doyeeta Majumder Anuj Misra Bill Mak Subha Prasad Sanyal Biju Paul Abraham
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Sunday book pick: An untameable pain in Niege Sinno’s memoir of childhood sexual abuse, ‘Sad Tiger’
Sayari Debnath
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Writer, translator, critic: How Shanta Gokhale’s works have shaped cultural conversations
Nirav Mehta
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‘Love Is Participation in Eternity’: Udayan Vajpeyi’s novel reaffirms faith in good literature
Priyanka Dubey
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Fiction: A chain of bizarre events is set in motion as a funeral procession collides with a scooter
Shyam Manohar Jerry Pinto
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Fiction: Kannamal has lost weight from a lack of food, but her mother-in-law refuses to believe her
Janaki K Srilata
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Sunday book pick: In ‘The Cat’, a newly-married elderly couple takes an abiding vow of hatred
Sayari Debnath
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‘Hooked’ by Asako Yuzuki: A biting tale of female loneliness and obsession
Nozomi Uematsu, The Conversation
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Fiction: When Allauddin Khilji conquers Madurai, the city’s goddess Meenakshi flees to Kumari
Jeyamohan Suchitra
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Vivek Shanbhag, Srinath Perur’s ‘Sakina’s Kiss’ shortlisted for James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
Scroll Staff
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Muse India Translation Award announces its 2025 shortlist of ten books
Scroll Staff
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Translated fiction: In Sunil Gagopadhyay’s short story, a man makes a deal with Death
Sunil Gangopadhyay Chitrita Banerji
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Victorian scholar Annette S Beveridge’s long road to translating Gulbadan Begum’s ‘Humayun Nama’
Ruby Lal
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For children: In this Satyajit Ray short story, a fortune teller witnesses a son’s revenge
Satyajit Ray
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Sunday book pick: Seven die in quest for a ‘perfect woman’ in crime novel ‘The Tokyo Zodiac Murders’
Sayari Debnath