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Manjula Narayan

Manjula Narayan

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

Articles by Manjula Narayan

Report: Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers’ Workshop 2026

Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, Tracy K Smith at the Himalayan Literature Festival in Kathmandu. (Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers’ Workshop)

Updated on Jul 3, 2026 21:32 IST

Report: 1st Ferozepur Heritage, Military and Literary Festival 2026

(From left) Lt Gen Ajay Chandpuria, Lt Gen (Retd) Dr JS Cheema, Maj Gen RS Manral and Lt Gen (Retd) TS Shergill. (Ferozepur Heritage, Military and Literary Festival)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 21:56 IST

Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2025

Learning to Make Tea for One by Andaleeb Wajid (Speaking Tiger)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 12:10 IST

Report: Bhutan Echoes 2025; Drukyul’s Literature and Arts Festival

Teacher and author Kalu Rinpoche (Courtesy Bhutan Echoes)

Updated on Aug 22, 2025 17:04 IST

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)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 10:15 IST

Shorts fired: A Wknd interview with author Anita Desai

(Getty Images)

Updated on Jul 13, 2024 11:12 IST

Motorcycle diaries: On riding in the Garo Hills

The Wangala dance at Condengre village in West Garo Hills (Royal Enfield Social Mission)

Updated on Apr 11, 2024 15:56 IST

Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2023

Scents and sensibility: from Bow Bazaar to Kannauj (Westland)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 12:09 IST

Jodhpur RIFF: Music to soothe a savage breast

Ars Nova Napoli had the crowd dancing. (Courtesy JodhpurRIFF)

Updated on Nov 10, 2023 10:13 IST

Report: Sikkim Arts and Literature Festival 2023

A concert during the Sikkim Arts and Literature Festival (Courtesy SALF)

Updated on May 19, 2023 18:59 IST

Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2022

A clearer view of India (HT Team)

Updated on Dec 30, 2022 11:04 IST

Manjula Narayan, Editor, Books, picks her favourite reads of 2021

Martyn Rix’s book takes the reader into the world of East India Company surgeons and their Indian artists (HT Team)

Updated on Dec 24, 2021 21:19 IST

Cooking by the numbers: At lunch with Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

(HT Photo: Raj K Raj)

Updated on Nov 14, 2021 12:05 IST

Independence Day special: Five classics about India to read right now

Independence Day special: Five classics about India to read right now

Updated on Aug 13, 2021 13:15 IST

Review: Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie (Rachel Eliza Griffiths)

Updated on Jun 12, 2021 11:41 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)

Updated on May 14, 2021 17:15 IST

How Midnight’s Children shaped Indian writing in English

Novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight’s Children. (AFP)

Updated on Apr 14, 2021 01:43 IST

Interview: Bill Gates on his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates

Updated on Feb 19, 2021 13:03 IST

India must set example in climate crisis fight: Bill Gates

Bill Gates, Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends a conversation at the 2019 New Economy Forum in Beijing, China.

Updated on Feb 15, 2021 21:12 IST

Essay: The Story of Paatallok and Tarun Tejpal

Publicity still for Paatallok.

Updated on May 21, 2020 18:14 IST

Lockdown Diaries: Wise words in a fraught time by Manjula Narayan

A man with provisions handed to him by a GNEM volunteer in Gurgaon.

Updated on Apr 28, 2020 02:55 IST

Interview: Soha Ali Khan on her new weekly podcast for kids

Soha Ali Khan

Updated on Feb 28, 2020 14:21 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).

Updated on Feb 14, 2020 14:13 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.

Updated on Jan 3, 2020 14:28 IST

Interview: Fatima Bhutto on her new book, New Kings of the World

Popular even in Peru - Shah Rukh Khan in

Updated on Oct 4, 2019 13:24 IST

Magic in the mountains: A look back at the stimulating sessions of the Mountain Echoes Festival 2019

Neil MacGregor in conversation with Pramod Kumar KG.

Updated on Sep 14, 2019 07:32 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.

Updated on Sep 7, 2019 07:09 IST

Interview: Subhashini Chandramani on The Garden Art Journal

Subhashini Chandramani

Updated on Aug 21, 2019 16:28 IST

Review: Looking for Miss Sargam by Shubha Mudgal

Shubha Mudgal performing in Bhopal on July 18, 2015.

Updated on Aug 17, 2019 04:47 IST

Interview: Poomani, author of Heat

Boys playing in front of a cave near Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu.

Updated on May 25, 2019 04:41 IST

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