This novel records the epic journey of a woman’s bid to break free after a bad marriage

R Vatsala

· May 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’

Hemang

· May 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Ambai’s new collection of short stories, a wild, unbounded energy binds death-themed narratives

Vibha Balaji

· May 08, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Opening lines: How the six books shortlisted for the International Booker Prize begin

Scroll Staff

· May 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Manzoor Ahtesham (1948-2021): Remembering the writer with his novel ‘The Tale of the Missing Man’

Manzoor Ahtesham

· May 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Theeyoor Chronicles’: Why are there so many suicides and disappearances in the land of fire?

N Prabhakaran

· Apr 26, 2021 · 06:30 pm

‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma

Salma

· Apr 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)

Shankha Ghosh

· Apr 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A forest has fallen silent in grief in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s eerie new novel in translation

Vinod Kumar Shukla

· Apr 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Sarah Joseph’s new novel imagines the life of the woman who was ostracised for ‘marrying’ Nehru

Sarah Joseph

· Apr 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Curse’: Salma’s short stories talk of women being suffocated in their domestic spaces

Yashasvi Arunkumar

· Apr 03, 2021 · 08:30 am

To pierce a mustard seed and let in seven oceans: Ambai on the art of translation

Ambai

· Mar 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Why do you shed tears, Malanna? Rise like a sword, Madiganna!’: Gaddar’s anthems for the revolution

Gaddar

· Mar 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Parental, carnal, platonic, romantic, divine: Love comes in many flavours in Ambai’s short stories

Ambai

· Mar 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why controversies around cultural appropriation and identity politics should not end translations

Mridula Nath Chakraborty, The Conversation

· Mar 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A galaxy of underground poets of Bengal emerge in this book as truth-tellers and myth-busters

Parthapratim Dasgupta

· Mar 06, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Hindi writer Bhuwaneshwar has been largely forgotten. A new book of his stories revives his work

Bhuwaneshwar

· Mar 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This collection of Gracy’s short stories in translation is a frank celebration of female desire

Gracy

· Mar 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Salma’s women dream of many things in this novel, but we cannot grasp the dreamers

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

· Feb 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Manoranjan Byapari’s new novel in translation imagines the life of a boy as a Namasudra

Manoranjan Byapari

· Feb 25, 2021 · 05:30 pm