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Manjula Narayan

Manjula Narayan

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

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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

Shorts fired: A Wknd interview with author Anita Desai

(Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 13, 2024 04:42 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

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)

Published on Dec 25, 2021 02:49 AM IST

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

(HT Photo: Raj K Raj)

Updated on Nov 14, 2021 05:35 PM 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 06:45 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

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 07:13 AM IST

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

Bill Gates

Published on Feb 19, 2021 06:33 PM 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.(Reuters/ File photo)

Updated on Feb 16, 2021 02:42 AM IST

Essay: The Story of Paatallok and Tarun Tejpal

Publicity still for Paatallok.

Updated on May 21, 2020 11:44 PM 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.(Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 28, 2020 08:25 AM IST

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

Soha Ali Khan(Courtesy Juggernaut)

Updated on Feb 28, 2020 07:51 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

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

Popular even in Peru - Shah Rukh Khan in(DDLJ)

Updated on Oct 04, 2019 06:54 PM 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.(Mountain Echoes)

Updated on Sep 14, 2019 01:02 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

Interview: Subhashini Chandramani on The Garden Art Journal

Subhashini Chandramani(Pictures courtesy the author)

Updated on Aug 21, 2019 09:58 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

Review: China at its Limits by Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuang

Cultural and religious diversity is characteristic of Hong Kong. After praying at the nearby gurdwara, a Sikh man pauses to talk on his mobile phone in front of a Dawoodi Bohra cemetery in the city’s Happy Valley. The first burial here dates back to 1828.(Matthias Messmer)

Published on Apr 19, 2019 09:26 PM IST

Review: The Verdict by Prannoy Roy and Dorab R Sopariwala

Not among the missing: Women, who have cast their vote for the state assembly elections, outside the polling station at Raisar village of Jaipur district in Rajasthan, on December 07, 2018.(NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Updated on Mar 22, 2019 08:32 PM 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

Review: Jiya Jale; Gulzar in conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir

Malaika Arora and Shah Rukh Khan in the Chaiyya Chaiyya song from Dil Se(1998).(Alamy Stock Photo)

Updated on Dec 15, 2018 10:57 AM IST

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