‘I plan to continue to be a bidirectional translator. I’m already a bilingual author. No one told me I couldn’t do it, so I just went ahead and did it.’

Love does not spare anyone – be it young lovers, husbands and wives, and most importantly, a ruler and the country.

‘Such a Long Journey’, Rohinton Mistry’s debut novel, was published in 1991.

An excerpt from ‘City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport’, by Romit Chowdhury.

‘Once you get away from your family you will realise that the toxicity is your resource. It is your motherlode! But first, you have to survive it.’

A literary question for International Women’s Day: How do woman writers write the world?

‘I would not call it a comeback, but an experiment,’ said Desai about her newest book ‘Rosarita’ which is out now.

A novel about young people caught in the fiasco of rewriting history leaves the reader with distressing questions.

An excerpt from ‘Taatung Tatung and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Diverse Languages,’ by Vaishali Shroff.

Writing in Italian, from which these stories are translated, Lahiri has undergone a transformation.

They battle threats to their safety every day, from poor infrastructure to insufficient security and predatory superiors.

This is the author’s first book in a decade.

Protest marches took place across India on Wednesday to demand swift action against perpetrators who raped and murdered a female junior doctor in Kolkata.

The 26-year-old writer won the prize for her short story ‘Aishwarya Rai’, in a field of 7,359 entrants, followed by five regional winners.

‘A translator must be at least as good a writer in his or her language, and in the same ways, as the author of the original is in his or hers.’

The first in the series of podcast interviews with the authors and translators longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

The English translation by Rebecca Whittington was published in 2022.

An interview with Purnima Rao, director of The Free Libraries Network.

As opening night for ‘Hamlet’ in Arabic draws closer, it becomes clear that many obstacles stand before the Palestinian troupe.

‘There is always scope for something beyond what is known to us. And it’s not in conflict with science or logic.’

Authors Manoranjan Byapari and Perumal Murugan, whose works have been longlisted twice for the Prize, feature for the third time in this year’s longlist.

The novel moves back and forth in time, and between a city and a village, to show how men become isolated from their families through their own doings.

Translator Anjum Katyal is astute, sharp, and the perfect mediator for Devi’s words.

A compelling investigation into what it means being alone.

Translated into English by Polly Barton, the book was published in Japanese in 2017.

A list curated by the Delhi-based bookseller The Bookshop Inc, with contributions from readers, writers, literary critics, and publishing professionals.

Arunava Sinha talks about finding his identity in the act of translating and developing close bonds with every text with which he works

Originally published in the Hindi as ‘Tirohit’ in 2001, the novel was translated into English by Rahul Soni and published in 2013.

The novel makes us conscious of our precarious relationship with the truth – our own as well as with those whose lives are entwined with ours.

‘I thought I was writing history, I did not realise I was commenting on Sri Lanka’s current affairs.’

The first edition of the novel was published in 1988.

The novel is an ode to the democratic spaces of paan shops and cigarette stalls that make a thinker out of every ‘loafer’ who graces them.

‘We publish what we want to publish. Our choices are to do mostly with freedom, on one hand, and the human condition on the other.’

The book was first published in the French in 2019 as ‘Soif’. The English translation by Alison Anderson was published in 2021.

Indians have demonstrated that they will battle hard for the values of the Constitution.

Hindi-language writer Chandan Pandey talks to Sayari Debnath, the translator of his collection of short stories, ‘The Keeper of Desolation’.

The novel refreshes our memories of 1992 Mumbai riots using the medium we understand best – the stories of our gods and goddesses.

Translated by Tanya Leslie into English, the book is a collection of fragmented passages about day-to-day life written over seven years.

Anjum Hasan’s novel considers what it is like to live in troubling times.

As Scroll marks its tenth anniversary on January 26, we look back at the highlights in our Books and Ideas section over the decade.

This fictional criticism of publishing is ultimately unidimensional, and the author’s takedown of every character becomes tiresome after a point.

Thakur’s story ‘Aishwarya Rai’ is about a young woman looking for the perfect mother to adopt.

‘I plan out each book in a way to ensure there is minimal paper waste, no single book is catching dust, every copy is sold, and every author is paid royalties.’

An excerpt from ‘Dear Reader : A Writer's Memoir,’ by Sankar, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha.

‘I’m very much militantly against the intrusion of the sacred in literature and art. I think art is a secular space. It’s a space of doubt.’

The publisher talked to Scroll.in about setting up imprints for translations and regional language publishing, the future of the publishing industry, and more.

An interview with Thomas Abraham, Managing Director of Hachette India, on his personal passion project, the Yellowbacks series.

An excerpt from ‘The Keeper of Desolation: Stories’, by Chandan Pandey. Translated from the Hindi by Sayari Debnath.

Each fellow will be awarded an annual stipend of Rs 18 lakh to write a book on an aspect of post-Independence India.

An interview with Bhavi Mehta, winner of the 2024 Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize.

The stories are slow, disconcerting reads, but as long as there is abuse and misuse of power, station, and wealth, Nabarun Bhattacharya’s words will live on.