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Fiction: A researcher devoted to ancient manuscripts sets out to decipher a madman’s diary
Khalid Jawed A Naseeb Khan
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Sunday book pick: Abuse and desire go hand in hand in Yukio Mishima’s 1950 novel ‘Thirst For Love’
Sayari Debnath
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‘A Pulp Fiction Textbook’: A novel styled like a textbook is as punishing as homework
Diya Isha
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Translated fiction: ‘Snake maidens’ visit villages during winter to sell their wares and make money
Prafulla Kumar Roy Aruna Chakravarti
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‘The Last Bench’ by Adhir Biswas: The serious repercussions of caste discrimination in classrooms
Anjali Chauhan
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From the travelogue: In 1890, Jaladhar Sen embarked on an adventure across the sacred Himalayas
Jaladhar Sen Somdatta Mandal
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Fiction: A receptionist in a Dubai hospital receives a book written by someone else using her name
Sonia Rafeek Ministhy S
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For children: How the delicate made-in-India muslin fabric inspired the freedom movement
Dev Kumar Jhanjh Debarati Bagchi
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Translated short fiction: Old Hindi songs remind RJ Saheb of the years that have sped by
Anil Yadav Vaibhav Sharma
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‘One More Story About Climbing a Hill’: Devabrata Das’s postmodernist take in Assamese short stories
Anannya Nath
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‘On the Banks of the Mayyazhi’: In this novel, the river cradles folklore, revolution, and history
Aratrika Ghosh
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‘Silk Route’: Sachin Kundalkar returns with a story of disappearances 12 years after ‘Cobalt Blue’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction by Benyamin: Mariamma, a young nurse from Kerala, travels from her hometown across the world
Benyamin Anoop Prathapan
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Fiction: Rabia looks forward in nervous excitement to changes that puberty may bring to her life
Salma GJV Prasad
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‘The translator runs vagabond on a taut rope’: A new book of 21st-century Hindi poems in translation
Vishnu Khare Tanuj Solanki Uday Prakash Carol Blaizy D’souza Gagan Gill Vidya Bhandarkar Mahesh Verma Tuhin Bhowal Parwati Tirkey Dibyajyoti Sarma Nirmala Putul Nidhi Singh
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Fiction: Ponniyin Selvan has vanished after a devastating shipwreck off the coast of Lanka
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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Short fiction: Abused by their husbands, the women wonder who the best man in the village is
Endapalli Bharathi VB Sowmya
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Short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto: A daughter’s return reveals the violent price of the Partition
Saadat Hasan Manto Sonakshi Gupta
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2025 NIF Translation Fellowships to translate texts from 10 Indian languages open for applications
Scroll Staff
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‘A Glimpse of My Life’ by Ram Prasad Bismil: A moving autobiography of a young revolutionary
Salil Misra