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Shashikant Sawant’s remarkable story of bookselling success in Mumbai, pandemic or no pandemic.

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

A year end round up, a list of best female fiction authors. How many of them have you read?

The Chagaletti Children’s Library proved to be a lifeline during the lockdown and afterwards.

Hemant Divate, who runs Paperwall and its poetry imprint Poetrywala with his wife Smruti Divate, recounts the story.

‘The first meeting, held on a sweltering June evening in my drawing room, had six excited ladies armed with googled knowledge on how to set up a book club.’

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree; Standing Heavy by GauZ’; Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu; Impossible by Erri De Luca

All stories published under - Publishing And The Pandemic

The new bookstore even managed to launch a new novel within days of inauguration.

Writer’s Side was set up by Kanishka Gupta in 2010. Since then, it has grown to become the largest literary agency and consultancy in South Asia.

A writer asks whether international publishers will look for books beyond the clichés from India after Covid-19 withdraws.

Singh’s was the kind of authentic writing that readers want now.

A first person account from a roving bookseller who has no shop, and whose very livelihood is threatened by the pandemic.

Bindu Menon THINNAI, which in Tamil means a shaded verandah, is the organic setting for Ari Gautier’s eponymous novel. It is from this thinnai of a house in a working class suburb of Pondicherry that...

A writer explains how she researched her last book, and cannot expect to repeat the experience for the next one.

The author will receive a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000.

It may have overplayed its webinar hand, but the industry has no choice but to go digital with its books.

Writer Andaleeb Wajid on how going back to writing her novels is helping her live after the loss of her husband and mother-in-law to the pandemic.

The acclaimed and beloved children’s author died on May 3, 2021, at the age of 68.

The library has both initiated and benefited from the participation of neighbours and others.

A successful experiment in reproducing the book-browsing experience on social media has brought customers from around the country.

Following the western narrative of the war against Covid-19 and the technology of deaths is wrong.

Racy but insightful, action-packed but convincing, this is a potboiler with a difference.

Nayak (26), who writes in the Lambada language using the Telugu script, says almost everyone believes that the Banjara community doesn’t exist because there is so little written about them. So, the...

“The Mirror and the Light,” the conclusion to Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, is one of 13 books nominated for this prestigious British literary award.