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Saaz Aggarwal

Saaz Aggarwal

Articles by Saaz Aggarwal

LC Singh: “Life is not linear. So don’t become arrogant during success”

Author LC Singh (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 11, 2026 09:50 IST

V Srinivas: “My fiction writing style is like that of a surgeon – cut and dry”

Author V Srinivas (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jan 24, 2026 05:29 IST

Rita Kothari: “The vocabulary we assume is about religion is often about caste”

Translator Rita Kothari (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Nov 3, 2025 12:49 IST

From Sindh in books: breaking silence, rebuilding memory

“When the passenger ship SS Jaladurga docked in Bombay on 14 November 1947, most of the evacuees from Karachi had never stepped outside Sindh before. They were entering a new life where they would stop speaking their language and set aside the traditions and stories of their ancestors.” - @Sindhitapestry on Instagram (Courtesy sindhitapestry on Instagram)

Updated on Oct 23, 2025 09:37 IST

Ramya Sarma: “I admire Asha Bhosle’s resilience and chutzpah”

Author Ramya Sarma (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Aug 25, 2025 12:04 IST

Daneesh Majid: “History has mostly been written by those in power”

Author Daneesh Majid (Courtesy Instagram)

Updated on Jun 9, 2025 12:24 IST

Kishore Mahbubani: “India will have to engage the rest of the world more”

Kishore Mahbubani, author, diplomat, and former president of the UN Security Council (Courtesy mahbubani.net)

Updated on Apr 30, 2025 11:32 IST

‘Sunrise Over Valivade’: a historical record and an intimate family account

Sindhi refugees disembarking at the dock in Bombay during Partition. (Aruna Katara/sindhistories.wordpress)

Updated on Jan 29, 2025 24:28 IST

Read an excerpt from Sindh: Stories from a Vanished Homeland

Updated on Jan 6, 2023 08:34 IST

Interview: Mark-Anthony Falzon, author, The Sindhis; Selling Anything, Anywhere - “Sindhi women play an important part in the making of networks”

Author Mark-Anthony Falzon (Paolo Tosti)

Updated on Nov 11, 2022 16:30 IST

Review: The Maverick Effect by Harish Mehta

That early tech office vibe: The NIIT Computer Drome in South Extension New Delhi in the 1990s (HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 25, 2022 13:11 IST

Interview: Harish Mehta, author, The Maverick Effect – “Technology is like bottled lightening”

Author Harish Mehta (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Jun 10, 2022 17:09 IST

Review: Fragments Against My Ruin by Farrukh Dhondy

Police and demonstrators at a protest against the British Government's immigration bill, Whitehall London, 21st March 1971. The march, which was sponsored by the Black People's Alliance (BPA), started in Hyde Park and made its way down Whitehall to Downing Street, where a protest note was handed to Prime Minister, Edward Heath. The bill was passed in October as the Immigration Act 1971. (Frank Barratt/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 11, 2022 12:28 IST

Interview: Farrukh Dhondy, author, Fragments Against My Ruin – “I’ve taken the risk of naming everyone”

Author Farrukh Dhondy (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Nov 19, 2021 13:46 IST

Interview Anjali Joseph, Author, Keeping in Touch

Author Anjali Joseph (CJ Humphries)

Updated on Jul 9, 2021 12:27 IST

Review: Colaba; The Diamond at the Tip of Mumbai by Shabnam Minwalla

A street in Colaba, Mumbai. (Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

Updated on Jul 2, 2021 13:44 IST

Review: Circus Folk and Village Freaks by Aparna Upadhyaya Sanyal

Surreal stories.

Updated on Nov 29, 2019 13:07 IST

Review: Afghan Hindus and Sikhs by Inderjeet Singh

Sikh shopkeepers in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan, in a photograph dated July 19, 2012.

Updated on Jul 19, 2019 13:43 IST

Review: The Women’s Courtyard by Khadija Mastur

In the courtyard: A home near the India-Pakistan border.

Updated on Mar 22, 2019 14:16 IST

Review: Mappillai; An Italian Son-in-Law in India by Carlo Pizzati

Updated on Jan 11, 2019 15:41 IST

Review: Ladders Against The Sky by Murli Melwani

At home in the world: Sindhis in Chile.

Updated on Jun 8, 2018 13:05 IST

Review: Paiso - How Sindhis Do Business by Maya Bathija

All about business acumen: Rupa and Harish Fabiani.

Updated on Feb 23, 2018 10:24 IST

Review: Behind Bars by Sunetra Choudhury

Women inmates at the central jail in Amritsar in August 2014.

Updated on Dec 1, 2017 17:29 IST

Review: Perhaps Tomorrow by Pooranam Elayathamby with Richard Anderson

Tough life: Workers from the Indian subcontinent in Dubai, UAE.

Updated on May 13, 2017 02:50 IST

Review of The Silliest Autobiography in the World by PG Bhaskar

PG Bhaskar’s book sometimes mimics a time capsule; a book version of the one that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi embedded at Red Fort on 15 August, 1973.

Updated on Feb 18, 2017 02:32 IST

The headmaster’s memoir: A book by a master of the glib half-truth

The book is Dev Lahiri’s account of his time at Lawrence School, Lovedale. One cannot help but observe that the inaccuracy and exaggeration in the book reduces its credibility.

Updated on Apr 23, 2016 11:10 IST

Wanted to write about routine, habit and ruptures in both: Anjali Joseph

Author Anjali Joseph wrote her first novel Saraswati Park in 2010. Her new novel The Living is the story of two characters’ daily lives and their shortcomings, set in two different continents.

Updated on Apr 10, 2016 06:59 IST

Indian Merchants on the Silk Road review: A book with bias and agenda

A caravan of camels resting in Antioch, the ancient city on the Silk Road, in a 19th-century coloured engraving. The expression ‘Silk Road’, an attractive (if misleading) phrase coined in the late 19th-century, adds a neat marketing flourish to this book.

Updated on Dec 19, 2015 09:39 IST

Keeping cultures alive: Sindhis and Hindus in Chile

Iquique-is-bordered-on-one-side-by-the-Pacific-Ocean-and-on-the-other-by-a-range-of-low-hills-Photo-Saaz-Aggarwal

Updated on Aug 2, 2015 07:13 IST

Author recounts her memories of turbulent Pakistan

HT Image

Updated on Sep 7, 2014 04:34 IST

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