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‘Silent Journeys’ by Benyamin: A tapestry of migration, memory, and the women who walked unseen
Suchismita Ghosh
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Short fiction: A man’s search for his mother leads him to a well where he hears her voice
D Ravikumar V Ramakrishnan
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Fiction: An unemployed Sivathanu is miserable after marrying the daughter of a wealthy couple
Nanjil Nadan S Thillainayagam
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures’, an author laughs at himself
Sayari Debnath
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‘I describe myself as a smuggler, border-crosser across languages’: Translator J Devika
Saurabh Sharma
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Translated children’s fiction: A tale of friendship, unity, and adventure in a forest
Bhagirath Mishra Sohini Basak
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Translated fiction: A group of gig workers in Kolkata thinks about its place in the universe
Ashoke Mukhopadhyay Zenith Roy
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‘Harmful from the perspective of health, economics’: Why chemist PC Ray (1861-1944) abhorred tea
Prafulla Chandra Ray Arunava Sinha
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From the biography: The deep impression Italian rebel Giuseppe Mazzini left on Tamil poet Bharathi
TMC Raghunathan Prabha Sridevan
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From the memoir: Poet Akhtarul Iman on the conflict between Urdu writers’ groups in India
Akhtarul Iman Baidar Bakht
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Fiction: Ex-police officer Ousepachan dwells less on the crime and more on the minds that commit it
Jeyamohan V Iswarya
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International Booker Prize 2026: A reader’s guide to the 13 titles in translation on the longlist
Scroll Staff
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Sunday book pick: Mario Benedetti’s 1960 novel ‘The Truce’ makes the heart soar, then breaks it
Sayari Debnath
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‘That’s A Fire Ant Right There!’: An emotional archive of the common, rural Telugu Muslim lives
Rhea Gangavkar
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‘The trees grow at night / as a man’s life shortens in the dark’: Assamese poems of displacement
Jiban Narah Anindita Kar
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Fiction: What awaits Adivasis Durgi and Dosaru in Assam’s Atharighat Tea Estate is no promised land
Arupa Patangia Kalita Ranjita Biswas
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Feminist fiction for children: Sisters Shukhu and Dukhu learn to be independent by becoming weavers
Satabdi Das Nadia Imam
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Sunday book pick: Twenty-four hours in a Soviet gulag in ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Dead Fish’: In Hindi writer Rajkamal Choudhary’s novel, desire festers in a dark city
Aratrika Ghosh
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‘Women aren’t allowed to talk about their suffering:’ Anil Yadav on his novella about ‘courtesans’
Sharmistha Jha