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Arunima Mazumdar

Arunima Mazumdar

Articles by Arunima Mazumdar

Review: Hooked by Asako Yuzuki

Friends walk through a shopping area in Tokyo’s Ginza district (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 22:40 IST

Dhiraj Rabha: “My life is not just a personal memory but a political condition”

Artist Dhiraj Rabha with his work, The Quiet Weight of Shadows at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2026, at Coir Godown, Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi. (Courtesy Kochi Biennale Foundation)

Updated on Mar 2, 2026 08:09 IST

Birender Yadav: “Caste is the engine that drives the bonded labour system”

Birender Yadav with Only the Earth Knows Their Labour at the Kochi Muziris Biennale (Kochi Biennale Foundation)

Updated on Feb 24, 2026 06:29 IST

Shida Bazyar: “The majority of Iranians want democracy”

Author Shida-Bazyar (Courtesy the author)

Updated on Feb 6, 2026 19:08 IST

Satoshi Yagisawa: “My books are more popular in India than in Japan”

Author Satoshi Yagisawa (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jan 30, 2026 21:44 IST

Kumi Kimura: “My experience in India influenced the writing of the book”

Author Kumi Kimura (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 21:42 IST

Akira Otani: “Queerness often shows up in my writing”

Author Akira Otani (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 31, 2025 13:51 IST

HT reviewer Arunima Mazumdar picks her favourite read of 2025

“The book came out in 2016 and this year, Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s film adaptation on Mubi made me return to the novel and its introspective detailing of ideas, occurrences, and outbursts.” (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 11:45 IST

“Annie Ernaux hardly ever juggles with jargon so translation is not difficult”

SR Kichenamourty who won the Romain Rolland award this year for translating Annie Ernaux’s Une Femme into Tamil. (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Nov 24, 2025 10:01 IST

Jose Dalisay Jr: “Most Americans don’t even know we were their colony”

Author Jose Dalisay Jr. (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Nov 21, 2025 17:18 IST

Report: Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

A session in progress at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 (Gian-Luca Heiser / Frankfurter Buchmesse)

Updated on Nov 19, 2025 12:00 IST

Vietnamese literature: From the classic to the contemporary

The Bookworm Hanoi, one of the oldest English-language bookstores in the capital of Vietnam. (Arunima Mazumdar)

Updated on Sep 25, 2025 12:49 IST

Yuki Tejima: “I miss talking about the books I’m not translating”

Translator Yuki Tejima (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Sep 12, 2025 21:56 IST

Mazi Nwonwu: “In Nigeria, storytelling is rich with the fantastical”

Mazi Nwonwu (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Aug 28, 2025 23:10 IST

Jim Rion: “Fair-play mystery is still alive and well in Japan”

Jim Rion (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 30, 2025 18:03 IST

Ginny Tapley Takemori: “Japanese lends itself to ambiguity”

Translator Ginny Tapley Takemori (Alliance Literature Festival)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 16:53 IST

Santanu Bhattacharya: “When I write, I don’t think of outcomes”

Author Santanu Bhattacharya (Behrin Ismailov)

Updated on Mar 24, 2025 12:03 IST

Report: Shillong Literary Festival

Malavika Banerjee in conversation with Vikram Seth (Shillong Literature Festival)

Updated on Feb 26, 2025 11:16 IST

Asako Yuzuki: “It seems ‘Butter’ is more popular in India than in Japan”

Author Asako Yuzuki (Arunima Mazumdar)

Updated on Feb 20, 2025 12:00 IST

Susegad and strawberry sunsets served with a side of books

“I notice how quiet the south of Goa is and how starkly different from the lanes of the north that are teeming with tourists. The only sound that makes its presence felt here is the whisper of the sea.” (Arunima Mazumdar)

Updated on Jan 8, 2025 14:33 IST

HT reviewer Arunima Mazumdar picks her favourite read of 2024

“When it comes to books, it’s simple – either you’re a reader or you’re not. And in What You’re Looking For Is In The Library, it’s heartening to witness non-readers finding purpose after reading a book.” (Doubleday)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 06:54 IST

Of bishonen, tales of same sex love and the I-novel

Love is all you need. (Manpeppe - stock.adobe.com)

Updated on Nov 15, 2024 14:36 IST

An earful of Franz Kafka

‘I, Josef’, a ‘headphone theatre’ performance by Kaivalya Plays (Arunima Mazumdar)

Updated on Oct 23, 2024 14:01 IST

Matt Haig – “In fiction, you can talk about things in a freer way”

Author Matt Haig (Kan Lailey)

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 15:41 IST

Monika Halan “Don’t get taken in by get-rich-quick schemes”

Monika Halan, author, Let’s Talk Legacy. (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Aug 9, 2024 15:41 IST

Michiko Aoyama – “I have a new favourite Manga author every day”

Author Michiko Aoyama

Updated on Jul 22, 2024 12:15 IST

Alex Michaelides: “Novels are about expansion”

Author Alex Michaelides (Wolf Marloh (USE))

Updated on Jun 15, 2024 03:32 IST

Appupen - “I’m scared of AI just like everybody else”

Graphic novelist Appupen (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 10, 2024 15:51 IST

Akshaya Bahibala, author, Bhang Journeys – “I believe in the power of stories”

Author and co-founder of The Walking BookFairs bookstore, Akshaya Bahibala (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 3, 2024 15:06 IST

Simon Rowe - “I wanted to flip the stereotype of the hard-drinking male detective”

Author Simon Rowe (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on May 17, 2024 23:58 IST

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