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Arson disguised as reportage: I&B ministry is right to suspend TRP system for India’s TV channels
10+ hour, 2+ min ago (212+ words) Arson disguised as reportage: I&B ministry is right to suspend TRP system for India's TV channels'Scroll.in You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits....
Mumbai-based writer Kartikeya Shekhar wins the Book Review Literary Trust’s 2025 short story contest
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (267+ words) Mumbai-based writer Kartikeya Shekhar wins the Book Review Literary Trust's 2025 short story contest'Scroll.in You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits. To unlock your full…...
What the Indus script, ‘discovered’ a hundred years ago, reveals about the ancient civilisation
10+ hour, 32+ min ago (944+ words) What the Indus script, "discovered" a hundred years ago, reveals about the ancient civilisation'Scroll.in You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits. To unlock your…...
Women AutHer Awards announces 2026 longlists in fiction, nonfiction, debut, children’s categories
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (299+ words) Here are the complete longlists: Blood Caste, Shylashri Shankar The Comeback, Annie Zaidi Real Life, Amrita Mahale Rising Sons, Kavery Nambisan The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai The Remnants of a Rebellion, Ponnu Elizabeth Mathew The Courtesan, Her…...
‘I describe myself as a smuggler, border-crosser across languages’: Translator J Devika
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (565+ words) That was the big hype about his novel when it came out, that it doesn't use any Sanskritised Malayalam. This projection did create a kind of curiosity, but I could see that it was natural, which is why the translation…...
Sunday book pick: In ‘Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures’, an author laughs at himself
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (761+ words) Sunday book pick: In "Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures, an author laughs at himself'Scroll.in You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits. To unlock…...
‘Departure(s)’: Julian Barnes’s final novel is an emotionally charged farewell to readers
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (237+ words) Julian Barnes, the 2011 Booker Prize-winning author, has said his latest novel, Departures(s), is also his final. For those who have read Barnes over the years, it is a bittersweet moment. It is a joy to have another novel from the…...
Unhomed in the world: The work and world of the recently rediscovered writer, Rajlakshmi N Rao
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (470+ words) In his preface, Gowda says, "She threw away all the notes and sketches and drafts she had readied for a projected novel and a play and abandoned writing altogether. Over the next 40 years, she did half-yearly sojourns in Uttar Kashi…...
March global nonfiction: Six newly released books that decode humanity’s relationship with the world
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (422+ words) A fascinating exploration of what it means to be both human and animal, Animate shows that to better understand ourselves, we must pay more attention to the other beings with whom we share our world. The history of modern China…...
Remembering the journalist expelled from India for taking on the East India Company
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (496+ words) In June 1818, when James Silk Buckingham arrived in Calcutta as captain of the Humayun Shah, he did not anticipate that his seafaring career was about to end. The ship's owner, the Imam of Muscat, ordered him to transport enslaved people…...