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Saudamini Jain

Saudamini Jain

Articles by Saudamini Jain

Mehdi Khawaja: “A generation or two of Kashmiris did not study Kashmiri”

Translator Mehdi Khawaja (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 29, 2026 10:15 IST

Daniyal Mueenuddin: “Life abroad feels like it doesn’t have enough salt in it.”

Daniyal Mueenuddin, author, This is Where the Serpent Lives (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 21:58 IST

Review: Ghost-eye by Amitav Ghosh

A woman prepares fish for lunch at the pond in front of her house in Kumrokhali, West Bengal. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 17, 2026 17:23 IST

Mirza Waheed: “I didn’t want to do a radicalisation story”

Author Mirza Waheed (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Apr 1, 2026 13:47 IST

Review: The Elsewhereans by Jeet Thayil

Hong Kong in the 1970s. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Updated on Jan 30, 2026 21:50 IST

Anuradha Roy: “The readership for literary fiction in English is small”

Author Anuradha Roy (Sheela Roy)

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 07:37 IST

HT reviewer Saudamini Jain picks her favourite read of 2025

“This book is essentially about the fracturing of the self, the disintegration of the psyches of Begum Wilayat Mahal and her children, Sakina and Ali Raza, as they are faced with the political and cultural changes of the subcontinent and the weight of history.” (HarperCollins)

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 11:55 IST

Review: The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary

An aerial view of the bridge over the Sabarmati in Ahmedabad in a picture dated 15 April 1992. In her memoir, Zara Chowdhary writes that, by the 1990s, the city had “slowly splintered” along two sides of the river. (HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 18, 2025 11:46 IST

Sophie Kinsella and the hammer blow of fate

Author Sophie Kinsella poses on Wimbledon Village high street, London on September 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Adam Butle, File)

Updated on Dec 11, 2025 12:11 IST

Mahesh Rao: “It was really important to me that the book end on a note of hope”

Author Mahesh Rao (Courtesy https://maheshrao.info/)

Updated on Nov 25, 2025 15:15 IST

Ben Markovitz: When you write, there’s this tension between flow and editing

Author Ben Markovitz (Kat Green)

Updated on Nov 11, 2025 17:55 IST

Review: A Return to Self; Excursions in Exile by Aatish Taseer

A view of Erdene Zuu, Mongolia’s oldest surviving monastery (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 22:04 IST

Review: Society Girl by Saba Imtiaz and Tooba Masood-Khan

Scene of the crime: Karachi. Pakistan in the 1970s. (Marka/Universal Images Group via)

Updated on Jul 5, 2025 03:13 IST

Review: Loal Kashmir by Mehak Jamal

Under the chinar trees at the Nishat Mughal garden in Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 17:16 IST

Sam Dalrymple: “The Northeast was probably the most affected by Partition”

Sam Dalrymple, author, Shattered Lands (Courtesy HarperCollins)

Updated on Jun 21, 2025 24:44 IST

Scaachi Koul: “Every writer should be in therapy”

Author Scaachi Koul (Courtesy Penguin)

Updated on Jun 7, 2025 01:02 IST

Faria Basher: “I realised the only way to become a writer was to start writing”

Writer Faria Basher (Courtesy X)

Updated on May 26, 2025 12:14 IST

The dynasty of the living dead

The ruins of Malcha Mahal two years after the death, on September 2, 2017, of its last resident, Ali Raza. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

Updated on May 2, 2025 17:17 IST

Review: Mother India by Prayaag Akbar

Of Youtube influencers and propaganda kitchens. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 17:07 IST

HT reviewer Saudamini Jain picks her favourite read of 2024

A millennial love story: The novel moves slowly, savouringly, a classic will-they-won’t-they. So much gets in the way of them getting together, but the action, even the lack there of, never dips. (Harper)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 07:03 IST

William Dalrymple: “This is a book about the diffusion of Indian ideas”

Author William Dalrymple (Debbie Mitra Singh/HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 17, 2024 06:47 IST

Review: The Many Lives of Syeda X by Neha Dixit

The kind of jobs that Syeda X does: Women making handmade sanitary napkins at a workshop in New Delhi. (S Burmula)

Updated on Oct 25, 2024 17:14 IST

Review: For Now it is Night by Hari Krishna Kaul

On the Dal Lake in Kashmir (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 6, 2024 14:22 IST

Review: At Home in India by Qurratulain Hyder

Qurratulain Hyder was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 26, 2024 14:34 IST

Review: Welcome to Paradise by Twinkle Khanna

Author Twinkle Khanna (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Feb 3, 2024 24:17 IST

Interview: Abraham Verghese, author, The Covenant of Water

Author Abraham Verghese (Christopher P. Michel)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 04:13 IST

Review: Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag

The unknowable lives of ordinary people. (Tim Graham/Getty Images)

Updated on Jan 5, 2024 16:53 IST

HT reviewer Saudamini Jain picks her favourite read of 2023

A novel told through the perspectives of each member of an Irish family that’s been hit by financial crisis. (Hamish Hamilton)

Updated on Dec 22, 2023 13:32 IST

Review: Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Selfies on the Spanish Steps in Rome. (Chabe01 / Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Dec 9, 2023 04:08 IST

Review: Quarterlife by Devika Rege

BJP supporters celebrate in New Delhi as election results show a landslide win for the BJP led NDA on May 16, 2014. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 14, 2023 01:10 IST

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