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Why the New India Foundation is offering fellowships to translate non-fiction books into English
Scroll Staff
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How translators achieve harmony, and why this is not a threat to the writers they translate
Suchitra Ramachandran
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Caste, brutality and a sense of justice inform this collection of Imayam’s stories in translation
Imayam
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‘Harijan’: A radical Odia novel about the lives of latrine-cleaners is now in an English translation
Gopinath Mohanty
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Why ‘The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories’ deserves a space on every feminist and political bookshelf
Saloni Sharma
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Shivani’s memoir of her schoolgirl days in Santiniketan is a nostalgic tribute blended with humour
Saurabh Sharma
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What was daily life like for royalty in the Red Fort? This book provides a fascinating commentary
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India
Chandan Pandey
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Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight
Indu Menon
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‘Mahanadi’: Anita Agnihotri’s epic Bengali novel following the course of a river is now in English
Anita Agnihotri
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‘Anti-Clock’: A complicated man’s complicated relationship with religion – and with revenge
Yamini Krishnan
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A coffin-maker and a clock that can make time go backwards bring magical realism to this novel
VJ James
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Even modern travel across the Arabian desert is an unpredictable adventure, shows this travelogue
E Santhosh Kumar
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A tragic love story in Marathi, set on a ship on the brink of WWII, gets an English translation
Vishram Bedekar
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‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always
Namita Gokhale
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What can happen in a country when extremists take over? This novel foresees its future
Shah Tazrian Ashrafi
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Where Satyajit Ray brings alive the genius of three generations of the Ray family in one book
Saikat Majumdar
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‘Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls’: Classic Hindi novel set in girls’ college gets English translation
Usha Priyamvada
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‘These days I enjoy getting irritated from time to time’: The unexpected prose poems of Joy Goswami
Joy Goswami
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Writer Shivani’s charming little memoir of life at Tagore’s university can now be read in English
Shivani