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Chittajit Mitra

Chittajit Mitra

Articles by Chittajit Mitra

Report: Bazm-e-Virasat

A session featuring actor Jaideep Ahlawat in conversation with casting director Mukesh Chhabra. (Courtesy Bazm-e-Virasat)

Updated on May 28, 2026 11:07 IST

Report: Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival 2026

Academic Ruvani Ranasinha in conversation with International Booker Prize winning translator Deepa Bhasthi (right) at the Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival 2026 (Courtesy Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival)

Updated on May 14, 2026 11:57 IST

Suvir Saran: “Loss rearranges the furniture of the soul”

Chef and author Suvir Saran (Rainbow Literature Festival)

Updated on Mar 6, 2026 21:34 IST

Report: The Shillong Literary Festival

Sanjoy Hazarika (left) and Shehan Karunatilaka at the Shillong Literary Festival. (Shillong Literary Festival)

Updated on Mar 6, 2026 09:59 IST

Report: Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival

A session titled From Feluda to the Kothas had Sanghamitra Chakraborty, Manish Gaekwad and Poulami Chatterjee Bose in conversation with Arunava Sinha. (Courtesy AKLF)

Updated on Feb 17, 2026 12:22 IST

HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2025

“In a post-truth world, where facts are not facts anymore and people are relentlessly bombarded with distractions, it is stories like these that pull us back to the reality of our times. “ (Penguin India)

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 11:48 IST

Malala Yousafzai: “For me, there was no roadmap”

Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Dec 6, 2025 02:08 IST

Ajeet Cour: “The Amrita Pritam sketch was difficult to write”

Author Ajeet Cour (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Nov 14, 2025 21:30 IST

Sunny Singh: “We can’t move towards justice if we can’t recognise injustice”

Author Sunny Singh (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Sep 30, 2025 13:30 IST

Aatish Taseer: 'I had an unusual parenting. My father was someone I discovered'

Author Aatish Taseer (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Sep 3, 2025 14:27 IST

GN Devy: “There is a forest of languages growing around us”

GN Devy (Courtesy Aleph)

Updated on Jun 10, 2025 11:37 IST

Report: Bazm-e-Virasat

Shubha Mudgal performing at Bazm-e-Virasat (Courtesy Bazm-e-Virasat)

Updated on Jun 6, 2025 07:04 IST

Amol Palekar: “The middle ground is shrinking”

Amol Palekar at the Jaipur Literature Festival on February 2, 2025. (PTI)

Updated on Apr 4, 2025 14:09 IST

Report: Arunachal Literature Festival

Bamboo dance performed by the Wancho Cultural Troupe at the Arunachal Literature Festival (Chittajit Mitra)

Updated on Apr 3, 2025 24:06 IST

Report: Kokrajhar Literature Festival

Miwa SAkuraki and Rajat Chaudhuri at the Kokrajhar Literature Festival (Chittajit Mitra)

Updated on Mar 19, 2025 14:57 IST

Report: The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival

Vikas Jha, Nusrat F Jafri, Preeti Gill, Samrat Choudhury and Jael Silliman at the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (Courtesy AKLF)

Updated on Feb 4, 2025 13:46 IST

Report: Koshala Literature Festival

Somya Singh, Malavika Rajkotia and Saurabh Kirpal discuss equality in India (Courtesy Koshala Literature Festival)

Updated on Jan 6, 2025 14:58 IST

HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2024

“The authors have succeeded in revealing the lives behind the names that appear on TV news debates and humanizing them by narrating their stories.” (Context)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 06:57 IST

Review: Out There Screaming; An Anthology of New Black Horror

Scary stories (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 6, 2024 08:38 IST

Review: A Slight Angle by Ruth Vanita

Hindus and Muslims, displaying the flags of both the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, collecting clothes to be later burnt as a part of the Non-cooperation movement of Mohandas Gandhi in 1922. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Dec 5, 2024 09:42 IST

Anand Teltumbde – “Ambedkar challenged Gandhi’s Mahatmahood”

Author Anand Teltumbde (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Oct 25, 2024 17:20 IST

Hoshang Merchant – “Politics is a passing show, while humanity endures”

Poet Hoshang Merchant (Madhu Kapparath)

Updated on Sep 28, 2024 24:24 IST

Vaibhav Sharma: “Every translator should really like what they’re translating”

Translator Vaibhav Sharma (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Sep 24, 2024 12:03 IST

Review: A new translation of Portrait of Love by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala

“The layered commentary on different aspects of the social life of rural India makes Nirala who he is.” (HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 15, 2024 13:23 IST

Aruna Roy – “The demonising of activists is unfortunate for the nation”

Aruna Roy, author, The Personal is Political; An Activist’s Memoir. (Amal KS/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 26, 2024 14:36 IST

Sourav Roy: “There are deep problems despite the ‘Gitanjali Shree Effect’”

Translator Sourav Roy (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 11, 2024 15:39 IST

Kailash Satyarthi - “We need to globalise compassion”

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi (KSCF)

Updated on May 29, 2024 15:34 IST

Report: Banaras Literature Festival 2024

Journalist Santosh Singh in conversation with Vinay Kumar, author, Yakshini. (Banaras Literature Festival)

Updated on May 8, 2024 16:04 IST

Report: Kolkata People’s Film Festival

Arundhati Roy in conversation with Kasturi Basu at the Kolkata People’s Film Festival (Courtesy KPFF)

Updated on Mar 5, 2024 15:16 IST

Ranjana Kaul – “We still have to work a lot on issues of caste and patriarchy”

Ranjana Kaul has translated The Stepmother and Other Stories by Laxmibai Abhyankar (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Feb 28, 2024 10:00 IST

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