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Supriya Sharma

Supriya Sharma

Supriya Sharma writes on books and curates and edits lifestyle stories for hindustantimes.com

Articles by Supriya Sharma

Review: Peace Has Come by Parismita Singh

Life must go on: Violence-affected villagers prepare food at a relief camp at Gossaigaon, in the Kokrajhar district of northeastern Assam state in December 2014.

Updated on Sep 7, 2018 15:43 IST

Review: Missing by Sumana Roy

Protests against the December 16 gang rape in Delhi in January 2013.

Updated on Jul 28, 2018 03:47 IST

Book review: Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth is a good cop gone rogue

Jo Nesbo sticks to the blueprint of the original plot and yet by adapting it for a specific milieu, he makes Macbeth his own story.

Updated on Jun 15, 2018 03:55 IST

The Shape of Water book review: If you liked the film, you’ll love the novel

The book features illustrations (including the one on the cover) by visual artist James Jean.

Updated on Jun 2, 2018 05:39 IST

Delhi this weekend: On Saadat Hasan Manto’s 106th birthday, watch two plays based on his stories

One of the finest short story writers of modern Indian literature, Manto was born on May 11, 1912, in Ludhiana, Punjab.

Updated on May 11, 2018 04:26 IST

Book review: Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Legends across the world hold that mermaids bring bad luck and — with their unimaginable beauty and enchanting songs — lure hapless sailors to their deaths.

Updated on Apr 30, 2018 06:47 IST

Review: We That Are Young by Preti Taneja

Shakespeare in India: Shashi Kapoor and Felicity Kendal on the sets of Shakespeare-Wallah in 1965.

Updated on Apr 7, 2018 05:48 IST

JLF 2018: Arab literature and the internalising of racism

From left: Rabih Alameddine, Alia Malek and Raja Shahdehah in conversation with Susan Abulhawa during the session Writing the Arab World at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Monday.

Updated on Jan 29, 2018 10:41 IST

The art of fiction: There is something occult about writing a book

Panelists of the session titled The Art of the Novel included Amy Tan, Chika Unigwe, Helen Fielding, Joshua Ferris and Michael Ondaatje. They were in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury.

Updated on Jan 28, 2018 14:01 IST

Of thieving magpies and novelists: Four first-time authors on the challenges of writing

(From left) First-time authors Prayaag Akhbar, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Diksha Basu and Sandip Roy in conversation with Tishani Doshi (centre).

Updated on Jan 27, 2018 11:11 IST

Nawazuddin Siddiqui at JLF 2018: Manto only spoke the truth while I lie frequently

Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nandita Das during a session titled Manto: The Man and The Legend at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Friday.

Updated on Jan 26, 2018 14:01 IST

There is an inbuilt survival toughness that women have and men don’t: Angela Saini

“Darwin used the word ‘intellectually inferior’ in reference to women, and this is where the title of my book comes from,” says science journalist Angela Saini.

Updated on Jan 26, 2018 12:57 IST

A view of hell: Dispatches from North Korea, the world’s worst gulag

In the session titled Undercover in North Korea: Facts and Fiction, investigative journalist Suki Kim spoke about her experience of working as a teacher at a North Korean University in 2011.

Updated on Jan 26, 2018 10:16 IST

From Amish’s Raavan to Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth: 10 books we want to read in 2018

Here are 10 books that we’re looking forward to in the New Year.

Updated on Dec 27, 2017 04:14 IST

What is Tourette syndrome? Rani Mukerji plays a patient with rare disorder in Hichki

In her forthcoming film Hichki, Rani Mukherjee plays a woman with Tourette Syndrome who wants to be a teacher.

Updated on Dec 20, 2017 09:18 IST

Here’s why you should never lie to mentalist Nicolai Friedrich. He can read your mind

Illusionist Nicolai Friedrich also works for a law firm in Frankfurt. He calls himself a “professional magician and a hobby lawyer”.

Updated on Nov 28, 2017 14:31 IST

What makes Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot such all-time favourites? We find out

Kenneth Branagh in a still from the latest film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, which released this week.

Updated on Nov 25, 2017 04:55 IST

No laughing matter: John Green’s new novel about OCD tells it as it is

In the TV show Friends, Monica Geller’s obsessive cleaning and organising, signs of OCD, often make her the butt of jokes.

Updated on Nov 6, 2017 03:22 IST

Uncommon Type review: Tom Hanks’ short stories demand to be savoured at leisure

Tom Hanks at the 2017 People’s Choice Awards at The Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.

Updated on Oct 17, 2017 03:12 IST

There are no happily ever-afters. Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on the myth of ‘the one’

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi in a still from her play Drama Queen, which she will perform in Delhi on October 6.

Updated on Oct 5, 2017 02:49 IST

Happy Birthday, T S Eliot: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Told Via GIFs

Updated on Sep 26, 2017 08:31 IST

Happy Birthday Stephen King: Here’s a beginner’s guide to his books

On Stephen King’s birthday, we bring you a guide to five of his popular books across genres.

Updated on Sep 21, 2017 03:33 IST

Book review: This is what it is like to lose someone you love to Alzheimer’s disease

Mrs C Remembers succeeds in doing what good stories are meant to do: Help us understand lives other than our own.

Updated on Sep 11, 2017 03:13 IST

Here are 10 of the most gripping opening sentences in recent Indian fiction

A good opening sentence is proof of the writer’s ability to draw the reader in.

Updated on Aug 22, 2017 03:43 IST

HT podcast: 20 years of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy’s debut novel The God of Small Things is set in Kerala of the 1960s in a Syrian Christian family.

Updated on Jul 14, 2017 07:26 IST

Kids are already exposed to sex & violence. Stories help lessen confusion: Paro Anand

Delhi-based Anand says through her stories, she tries to get young readers to think for themselves and ask questions.

Updated on Jun 28, 2017 06:51 IST

I find it exciting that a lot of people hate my book: British novelist Lisa Hilton

British novelist Lisa Hilton’s erotic thriller Maestra will soon be made into a TV series.

Updated on Jun 13, 2017 05:06 IST

HT podcast: 20 years of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things is set in Kerala of the 1960s and is about a Syrian Christian family.

Updated on Jul 12, 2019 09:42 IST

Review: How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy

An ancient banyan tree in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh.

Updated on May 20, 2017 02:56 IST

Review of The Poison of Love: A tale of the mythified emotion of love by KR Meera

A widow at a shelter in Vrindavan.

Updated on May 13, 2017 02:47 IST

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