‘Yakshi’: This short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James is a sensual parable for our times

Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.

VJ James

· May 15, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Fiction pick: ‘The Ladder of Yarn’, a short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James

Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.

VJ James

· May 06, 2022 · 05:30 pm

After ‘Daura’: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s Rajasthan novel about water

What happened after the district collector in the novel disappeared?

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Dec 10, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘I want to be Tagore’: The story for which every Punjabi student knows Mohan Bhandari (1937-2021)

The Punjabi writer died on November 26, 2021 at the age of 84.

Mohan Bhandari

· Nov 28, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘The cost of hunger’: Abdus Samad’s poignant short story about life as a displaced Muslim in Assam

‘Beard. I want to shave off my beard.’

Abdus Samad

· Oct 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Gulzar on the tragedy of Afghanistan: Four poems and a short story

Translated from the original Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil.

Gulzar

· Sep 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘No Man’s Land’: Anuradha Sharma Pujaree’s short story riffs on a football match in Meghalaya

It’s the game of life where the losers pay more.

Anuradha Sharma Pujaree

· Feb 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Virus’: Is this short story actually a work of fiction in pandemic-struck India?

‘Do you know who this man is? Have you any idea how dangerous he is?’

Sirsho Bandopadhyay

· Dec 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The Roshogolla Makers’: A sweet short story for the age of the pandemic

What happened after Bhanjo Mishtanno Bhandar in Kolkata had to close because of the lockdown.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jun 01, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Short story: ‘The Finding’. (Or, a discovery that stunned a world reeling under a pandemic)

‘It had all started rather casually with some questions and jokes, leading to more enquiries and friends asking other friends, followed by WhatsApp forwards.’

Arundhati Ghosh

· May 24, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What makes a building go up in flames in this short story? How is it related to a secret illness?

In Ipshita Nath’s ‘The List’, any resemblance with current events is just that, a resemblance.

Ipshita Nath

· Feb 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

Seven cli-fi novels that show us how life might imitate art when it comes to climate change

For more than 30 years, fiction has been warning us about the climate emergency.

Adeline Johns-Putra, The Conversation

· Dec 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm