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Majid Maqbool

Majid Maqbool

Articles by Majid Maqbool

Deepta Roy Chakraverti: “Strong willed women can achieve anything”

Author Deepta Roy Chakraverti (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jul 10, 2026 09:50 IST

Sohrab Hura: “I wanted to photograph Kashmir with love”

Photographer Sohrab Hura (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 6, 2026 02:54 IST

Santosh Desai: “The smartphone allows people to perform their individuality”

Santosh Desai, author, Memes for Mummyji (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Mar 10, 2026 24:52 IST

Aparajith Ramnath: “Visvesvaraya’s role has not received enough attention”

Author Aparajith Ramnath (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jan 5, 2026 16:07 IST

Anusha Rizvi: “The Great Shamsuddin Family is a story of strong women”

On the sets: Anusha Rizvi (l) explaining a scene to Kritika Kamra, who plays Bani Ahmed in The Great Shamsuddin Family. (Courtesy Anusha Rizvi)

Updated on Dec 29, 2025 10:16 IST

Komal JB Singh: “The Sikh presence in Kashmir has a long history”

Author Komal JB Singh (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 12, 2025 23:38 IST

Sameer Hamdani: “My book presents Srinagar as a stubbornly resilient city”

Author Sameer Hamdani (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 10, 2025 24:44 IST

Asiya Islam: “Without women’s unpaid work, the economy would not function”

Author Asiya Islam (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 22:34 IST

Keeping Kashmir’s children at the heart of his stories

Mubashir Ahmad Shah (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Oct 8, 2025 14:30 IST

Review: The Eyes of Gaza by Plestia Alaqad

Death and devastation in Gaza in a picture dated September 16, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Updated on Sep 24, 2025 13:50 IST

Ravikant Kisana: “Caste is never framed as a savarna question”

Author Ravikant Kisana (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Aug 8, 2025 22:18 IST

Bilal Moin: “Cities are spaces where languages collide and mutate”

Bilal Moin, editor and curator of The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City (Tony Wang)

Updated on Jul 17, 2025 07:02 IST

Tim Wigmore: “India now has a much better idea of how to nurture fast bowlers”

Author Tim Wigmore (Courtesy Hachette)

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 08:17 IST

Ibtisam Azem: “The reality that Palestinians live in goes beyond any dystopia”

Author Ibtisam Azem (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on May 6, 2025 11:32 IST

Jonathan Haidt: ‘People born after 1995 are in bad mental health’

Author Jonathan Haidt (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 23:36 IST

Rollo Romig: “Gauri Lankesh had a talent for connecting people”

Author Rollo Romig (Eva Garmendia)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025 23:40 IST

The case for The Quillers’ Club

Publisher and author Ambreen Rasool (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jan 31, 2025 08:19 IST

Kanupriya Dhingra: “Daryaganj’s magic lay in its unpredictability”

Author Kanupriya Dhingra (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jan 21, 2025 02:21 IST

HR reviewer Majid Maqbool picks his favourite reads of 2024

“The author tells the larger story of the dispossession of Palestinians through the life story of a Palestinian father, Abed Salama, whose son lost his life as Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams were late to reach the crash site given the crippling security regulations put in place by the Israeli state.” (Amazon)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 06:59 IST

Inside India’s ‘secret Cold War’

Paul McGarr, author, ‘Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States and India’s Secret Cold War’ (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 6, 2024 23:56 IST

Saad Mohseni: “The Taliban is not a monolithic movement”

Saad Mohseni, author, Radio Free Afghanistan (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Nov 15, 2024 19:14 IST

A storehouse of stories: Kashmiris on Kashmir

A view of the Dal Lake during snowfall in Srinagar in February this year. (Waseem Andrabi /Hindustan Times)

Updated on Nov 8, 2024 14:43 IST

“Hindutva is now a significant feature of diasporic identity”

Author Edward TG Anderson (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Oct 21, 2024 14:57 IST

Marcel Dirsus – “Peaceful protests can bring down the most powerful dictators”

Author Marcel Dirsus (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Oct 4, 2024 15:06 IST

Nathan Thrall – “Stories have the power to move even the most closed minds”

Author Nathan Thrall (Courtesy www.nathanthrall.com)

Updated on May 31, 2024 16:39 IST

Interview: Jente Posthuma, author, What I’d Rather Not Think About, and translator Sarah Timmer Harvey

Author Jente Posthuma (Bas Uterwijk)

Updated on May 10, 2024 16:25 IST

Chitralekha Zutshi - “This is not an apologia for his actions”

Author Chitralekha Zutshi (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Mar 23, 2024 04:33 IST

HT reviewer Majid Maqbool picks his favourite reads of 2023

“Mosab’s poetry goes beyond reflecting the pain and suffering of his people to show their resilience and undefeated hope even as devastation surrounds them.” (Amazon)

Updated on Dec 22, 2023 13:20 IST

Siân Hughes, author, Pearl - “A novel has to have a life of its own”

Author Sian Hughes (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Sep 22, 2023 12:49 IST

Review: Terminal 3 by Debasmita Dasgupta

Martial arts: Fighting her way to success. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 1, 2023 09:14 IST

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