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‘Nireeswaran’: A group of atheists plays a prank to mock religion. Things don’t go according to plan
VJ James
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‘Four Chapters’: Rabindranath Tagore’s last novel is an indictment of ultra nationalist politics
Rabindranath Tagore
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‘Finally, the day of judgement arrived. Bibijan moved in with me’: Manto on getting married
Saadat Hasan Manto
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This Partition novel reminds all of India that communal violence can never be controlled
Nanak Singh
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‘Happy Stories, Mostly’ is in fact a collection of melancholy stories about people who do bad things
Sahana Hegde
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‘Tomb of Sand’: Geetanjali Shree’s novel may be the most original and undefinable work of our times
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman Vighnesh Hampapura
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NIF Translation Fellowship: The first three winners are translators from Bangla, Kannada and Marathi
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An iconic novel by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das is reborn through an English translation
Jibanananda Das
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‘Rohzin’: This novel of interrelated lives explores love, lovers, longing and the city of Mumbai
Rahman Abbas
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‘Untameable, dissident Dalit creativity is consigned to the scrublands of literary regimes’
Hemang Ashwinkumar
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‘Hungry Humans’: This Tamil novel is located on the intersection between desire, morality and caste
Karichan Kunju
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‘Aranyak’: A new translation brings back Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s iconic Bengali novel
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English
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‘Song of the Soil’ channels the aborted political movement for Gorkhaland through fiction
Chitra Ahanthem
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This Malayalam novel is part-speculative fiction, part-cautionary tale, part-dystopic narrative
Saloni Sharma
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‘Tomb of Sand’: Geetanjali Shree’s novel in translation makes International Booker Prize shortlist
Geetanjali Shree
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How Ananda Lal translated Utpal Dutt’s 50-year-old political play ‘Barricade’ into English
Ramu Ramanathan
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Anti-Semitism, opportunism, political intrigue: Olga Tokarczuk’s whirlwind tour of the 18th century
Isabelle Hesse, The Conversation
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If you think you know Gujarat, this anthology of stories expands and confuses your understanding
Gayathri Sankar
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Booker Prize International 2022: Read the opening lines of the 13 longlisted books
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