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In Gracy’s Baby Doll: Stories, exploring loneliness and viewing translation as 'extended authorship'
Aarushi Agrawal • 4 years agoThe stories present, to a large extent, the dark worlds of lonely characters experiencing varying degrees of tragedy, depicted through a bleak and straightforward language.
The Souvenir Museum: Elizabeth McCracken's collection of short stories is a beautiful exploration of love, family ties
• 4 years agoMcCracken has delivered a lovely collection of stories loosely tied together by one theme — the bonds of family that fracture and heal as lives are led.
Haruki Murakami's new collection of short stories explores borders between reality, dreams and memory
• 4 years agoAt first, you are carried along in the slipstream of bizarre but plausible detail — a feat Murakami achieves through the use of banal, if not clichéd, language.
Anushka Jasraj on her short story collection Principles of Prediction, and fiction as a channel to transmit abstract ideas
Aarushi Agrawal • 4 years agoThe impossibility of communication, the beauty of mismatch, is probably one of the themes of the book, Anushka Jasraj tells Firstpost.
N Kalyan Raman on Salma’s writing style in The Curse, his approach to translating, and the lack of literary discourse
Aarushi Agrawal • 4 years agoSalma doesn’t mince words, there is no modulation or playing down. She’s very even-toned but she doesn’t hold back, says N Kalyan Raman of the Tamil author's powerful style.
AfsanaBadosh ep 2: Listen to Premchand's 'Sawa Ser Gehun' | Presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam
Jashn E Qalam • 4 years agoAfsanaBadosh, presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam, celebrates the spirit of storytelling through narrations of the greatest Hindi and Urdu stories. This is Episode 2 — Premchand's 'Sawa Ser Gehun', as performed by Vicky Ahuja.
Friday Night Frights: A Brief History of Feeling Great
Harsh • 4 years agoEven the most widely accepted version of events is blurry on what might have triggered the whole thing.
Friday Night Frights: Red, Shiny, and Ripe | A short story
Rohininair • 4 years agoNo tomatoes were harmed in the retelling of this story.
Bringing Dhumketu to a new century: Jenny Bhatt discusses translating the pioneering Gujarati writer's short stories
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 4 years agoIn the early 20th century, Dhumketu was a household name, known for writing stories that departed from the heavy influence of Mahatma Gandhi's ideology to depict instead a village idyll, the simple joys and sorrows of a common person, and the everyday goings-on of a Gujarati home.
In Bhagwaticharan Verma's 'Atonement', a cat's scheming ways put a young bride on trial
Bhagwaticharan Verma • 4 years ago'Atonement' is part of The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told, an anthology curated and translated by Poonam Saxena, featuring authors like Premchand, Bhisham Sahni and Usha Priyamvada.