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Samrat Choudhury

Samrat Choudhury

Articles by Samrat Choudhury

Of AI hallucinations and brain rot

Separately together (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 24, 2026 07:51 IST

Essay: Philosophical in the Philippines

Mount Fuji in Japan (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 8, 2024 13:17 IST

Review: House of the People by Ronojoy Sen

Members of Parliament voting on clauses of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on September 20, 2023. (ANI/Sansad TV)

Updated on Sep 22, 2023 12:55 IST

Excerpt: Northeast India; A Political History by Samrat Choudhury

Neer Mahal, once the summer palace of the king of Tripura. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 3, 2023 17:22 IST

Review: Migrants by Sam Miller

Migrants who undertook the crossing from France to UK in small boats beingg picked up in the English Channel. ((AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File))

Updated on Jun 23, 2023 11:32 IST

Review: The Anarchist Cookbook by Aakar Patel

Protests against NPR, NRC and CAA in New Delhi on 26 February 2020. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Apr 7, 2023 12:39 IST

Review: Dead End by V Sudarshan

Police and other officials at a crime scene in the pre-digital era. (SN Sinha/HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 6, 2023 16:33 IST

HT reviewer Samrat Choudhury picks his favourite reads of 2022

An enemy to peace: Like all the best writing, Bertrand Russell’s Unpopular Essays has withstood the test of time. (HT Team)

Updated on Dec 23, 2022 11:33 IST

Review: India After 1947 by Rajmohan Gandhi

Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari. “As the grandson of Gandhi from his paternal side and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari from his maternal side, the author knew, with close familiarity, many of the stalwarts whose names dominate India’s modern history.” (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Nov 25, 2022 19:43 IST

Review: To Raise a Fallen People edited by Rahul Sagar

Anandibai Joshi, the first Indian woman to become a doctor in modern medicine. Among the highlights of the collection is a speech made in 1883 by Anandibai Joshi. (Caroline Wells Healey Dall/ via Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Oct 21, 2022 14:04 IST

Essay: Of Bharat, India and Hindustan

Visitors on Kartavya Path on September 10, 2022. (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Sep 13, 2022 16:56 IST

Essay: The fallout of the attack on Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie at the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 15, 2017, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Updated on Aug 16, 2022 13:11 IST

Review: Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan by Adeel Hussain

A mob burns down a cinema hall in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 21, 2012. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 28, 2022 19:33 IST

Interview: Aanchal Malhotra, author, In the Language of Remembering

Author Aanchal Malhotra (Courtesy HarperCollins)

Updated on Jul 8, 2022 12:53 IST

Essay: The history of the politics of blasphemy in the Indian subcontinent

The ironies and the horrors of the issue as it has played out in the modern history of the region. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 20, 2022 12:59 IST

Review: Field Notes from a Waterborne Land by Parimal Bhattacharya

Boats on the Hooghly in West Bengal. (Subhendu Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on May 30, 2022 12:28 IST

Review: To Kill a Democracy by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane

An election rally in progress. (Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Apr 8, 2022 15:18 IST

Review: Gandhi’s Assassin by Dhirendra K Jha

Godse (left in row one) in the dock along with ND Apte (right in row one) and other co-accused, including Savarkar (extreme right in the back row), on teh first day of the trial in the special court at Red Fort on 27 May 1948. (Photo Division, PIB, Government of India)

Updated on Apr 2, 2022 01:10 IST

Review: The Silent Coup by Josy Joseph

Lurking in the shadows. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 17, 2021 10:33 IST

Long cold march from Tibet

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Updated on Oct 28, 2006 22:00 IST

Five hundred to write a book?

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Updated on Oct 18, 2006 23:06 IST

Merit on backseat, politics at the wheel

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Updated on Apr 11, 2006 03:53 IST

Merit takes a backseat

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Updated on Apr 8, 2006 20:11 IST

Life?s a stage

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Updated on Mar 28, 2006 23:00 IST

Knock ?em out

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Updated on Jan 25, 2006 19:21 IST

Sri Lanka: Sunshine on Christmas

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Updated on Dec 24, 2005 20:47 IST

Same train, same staff, different run

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Updated on Dec 22, 2005 11:32 IST

For survivors, normal life still a dream

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Updated on Dec 22, 2005 13:19 IST

Jus?talking: Exams don?t matter in the long run

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Updated on Mar 7, 2005 13:45 IST

Jus?talking: Exams don?t matter in the long run

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Updated on Mar 7, 2005 13:45 IST

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