Manjula Narayan

Manula Narayan is National Books Editor at Hindustan Times. She writes on literature and popular culture.

Articles by Manjula Narayan

Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2024

Shahnaz Habib’s ‘Airplane Mode’ touches on everything from wanderlust as consumerism to the history of work, while Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s ‘Chronicle of an Hour and a Half’ is a taut novel about desire in a difficult place. (HT Team)
Published on Dec 27, 2024 03:45 PM IST

Motorcycle diaries: On riding in the Garo Hills

The Wangala dance at Condengre village in West Garo Hills (Royal Enfield Social Mission)
Published on Apr 11, 2024 09:26 PM IST

Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2023

Scents and sensibility: from Bow Bazaar to Kannauj (Westland)
Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:39 PM IST

Jodhpur RIFF: Music to soothe a savage breast

Ars Nova Napoli had the crowd dancing. (Courtesy JodhpurRIFF)
Updated on Nov 10, 2023 03:43 PM IST

Report: Sikkim Arts and Literature Festival 2023

A concert during the Sikkim Arts and Literature Festival (Courtesy SALF)
Updated on May 20, 2023 12:29 AM IST

Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2022

A clearer view of India (HT Team)
Published on Dec 30, 2022 04:34 PM IST

Review: Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie (Rachel Eliza Griffiths)
Updated on Jun 12, 2021 05:11 PM IST

Review: Stories I Must Tell by Kabir Bedi

Kabir Bedi and Parveen Babi at the Imperial fora, Rome in 1976. (Giorgio Ambrosi/Mondadori via Getty Images)
Published on May 14, 2021 10:45 PM IST

Essay: The Story of Paatallok and Tarun Tejpal

Publicity still for Paatallok.
Updated on May 21, 2020 11:44 PM IST

Review: Low by Jeet Thayil

Carrying hell within you: The right panel from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516).(Universal Images Group via Getty)
Published on Feb 14, 2020 07:43 PM IST

Litfesting in the lap of the Himalayas

Amitabha Bagchi(L) receiving the DSC Prize from Pradeep Gyawali, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal, in the presence of DSC prize founder Surina Narula and Harish Trivedi, jury chair of the prize for 2019.(DSC Prize for South Asian Literature)
Updated on Jan 03, 2020 07:58 PM IST

Review: Oh! Those Parsis by Berjis Desai

A Parsi couple prays to the guardians of the fire temple at Tardeo in Mumbai on Navroz in 2015.(Kunal Patil/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Sep 07, 2019 12:39 PM IST

Review: Looking for Miss Sargam by Shubha Mudgal

Shubha Mudgal performing in Bhopal on July 18, 2015.(Praveen Bajpai/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Aug 17, 2019 10:17 AM IST

Interview: Poomani, author of Heat

Boys playing in front of a cave near Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu.(Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Updated on May 25, 2019 10:11 AM IST

JLF2019; At the Mahakumbh of literature

The attentive audience at the final debate at JLF 2019 on whether liberalism stifles debate.(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)
Published on Feb 01, 2019 08:07 PM IST
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