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Akankshya Abismruta

Akankshya Abismruta

Articles by Akankshya Abismruta

Review: Slow Burn by Amal Singh

Amal Singh’s Slow Burn plays with the doppelganger trope even as it evokes nostalgia for the old Bollywood masala film. Above, a scene from Don (2006) (Film still)

Updated on Jul 1, 2026 13:53 IST

Review: Dark Hours of the Night by Salma

A Tamil woman at the seaside with her daughter. (Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 17:18 IST

Narasimha Kumar: “There is a lot of focus on translations now”

Translator Narasimha Kumar (Courtesy the subject’s FB page)

Updated on Feb 18, 2026 13:15 IST

Report: Travel Writing Festival

Jerry Pinto, Ravi Singh, Sanjay Kak and Sampad Patnaik at the Travel Writing Festival (Akankshya Abismruta)

Updated on Jan 26, 2026 06:02 IST

Review: Burns Boy by Krupa Ge

A burns ward. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 22:08 IST

Review: The Comeback by Annie Zaidi

Theatre as a transformative art form: A play being staged. (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 1, 2026 15:33 IST

HT reviewer Akankshya Abismruta picks her favourite read of 2025

“The story not only centralises a marginalised community but also creates characters that are distinctly shaped within it. It elicits empathy, and the reader hears different views on farmer suicides, education, and life in general.” (Bloomsbury India)

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 11:46 IST

Sannapureddy Venkatarami Reddy: “Shepherds know how to take care of the forest”

Author Sannapureddy Venkatarami Reddy (Courtesy Facebook)

Updated on Nov 18, 2025 22:18 IST

Review: Ittehad: A Life Together by Guli Sadarangani

A group watching the Karachi Spring Race meeting on 27th April 1937. The event was considered the biggest social function of the year. (Getty Images)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 15:38 IST

Review: Giants by Huthuka Sumi

A view of Kohima, the capital of Nagaland. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 18:04 IST

Review: A New World Romance by Susham Bedi

Bridging the old world and the new: An Indian couple in USA. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 1, 2025 17:02 IST

Review: On the Banks of the Pampa by Volga

The river Pampa at Sabarimala (the hill of Sabari) in Kerala, one of the places connected with the story of Sabari in the Ramayana. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 5, 2025 21:30 IST

Review: The Day the Earth Bloomed by Manoj Kuroor

The Airavatesvara Temple built by the Cholas in Darasuram, now in modern Tamil Nadu. The Cholas were one of the great dynasties of the Sangam period (300 BCE to 300 CE). (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 19, 2025 01:00 IST

Review: Daisy & Woolf by Michelle Cahill

Virginia Woolf, author of Mrs Dalloway. A marginal character in Woolf’s novel is at the centre of Michelle Cahill’s Daisy & Woolf. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 13, 2025 17:01 IST

Sunitha Krishnan: “There is nothing more horrendous than sex trafficking”

Activist and author Sunitha Krishnan (Courtesy Westland)

Updated on Jun 4, 2025 17:28 IST

Review: The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao

A view of agricultural lands in Telangana (Shutterstock)

Updated on May 23, 2025 23:38 IST

Report: Hyderabad Literary Festival

A tribute to Keki Daruwala at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2025 (Akankshya Abismruta)

Updated on Apr 15, 2025 13:33 IST

Review: Vaadivaasal by CS Chellappa, adapted by Appupen and Perumal Murugan

A Jallikattu event at Alanganallur near Madurai, Tamil Nadu (Hemanshi Kamani/ HT)

Updated on Apr 4, 2025 14:10 IST

Review: ‘Swallowing The Sun’ by Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri

Primary school teachers in Bombay participating in a march on 3 April 1946. (HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 11, 2025 10:50 IST

Review: Into The Forest by Avtar Singh

The Black Forest in Germany (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 8, 2025 01:28 IST

Report: Walking Bookfairs Travel Writing Festival

Tathagata Satpathy addressing the gathering at Z Hotel (Courtesy Walking Bookfairs)

Updated on Jan 27, 2025 13:40 IST

Review: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia

Still life: Cryogenics and the law in a possible future. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 24:06 IST

Review: Of Mothers and Other Perishables by Radhika Oberoi

A picture of India Gate, New Delhi dated 01 June 1976. (SN Sinha/HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 4, 2024 15:05 IST

Review: Carnival by Sayam Bandyopadhyay

A stately home in West Bengal, the sort of mansion that ‘Carnival’s’ protagonist, Rajaram Deb, inhabited. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 4, 2024 11:59 IST

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