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Uttaran Das Gupta

Uttaran Das Gupta

Articles by Uttaran Das Gupta

Review: The Bengali Reader,Edited and translated by Arunava Sinha

A still from the Bengali film Jana Aranya (1976) by Satyajit Ray. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 10, 2026 21:32 IST

Mahasweta Devi; beyond binaries

Mahasweta Devi in a photograph dated 9 June 2002 (Virendra Singh)

Updated on Jan 20, 2026 12:26 IST

Review: The Only City edited by Anindita Ghose

Commuters at Kandivali station in Mumbai. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 21:48 IST

HT reviewer Uttaran Das Gupta picks his favourite read of 2025

“Although Chaudhuri does not spell it out, I was constantly struck by how often the incidents of the 19th century included in her book were similar to those of our times.” (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 19, 2025 12:01 IST

Tom Stoppard and the triviality of history

Tom Stoppard at the Jaipur Literature Festival on 22 January 2012. (Jasjeet Plaha/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Dec 2, 2025 11:38 IST

Review: India’s First Radicals by Rosinka Chaudhuri

Wedding Procession; Bride Under a Canopy, circa 1800, creator unknown. Many ideas adopted by Indian nationalists, such as widow remarriage, had their origins in the radical beliefs of Young Bengal. (Getty Images)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025 15:45 IST

Review: Soumitra Chatterjee and his World by Sanghamitra Chakraborty

Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee in Apur Sansar (1959). (Film still)

Updated on May 30, 2025 16:09 IST

Iowa Residency: End of the road?

Iowa university in the fall (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 20, 2025 15:21 IST

Review: Satyajit Ray; Feluda in the Golden Fortress

A scene from Sonar Kella (Film still)

Updated on Feb 8, 2025 01:26 IST

Reading David Lodge’s ‘Nice Work’ in difficult times

Birmingham University on a sunny day. The two protagonists of Nice Work live in Rummridge. Dr Penrose works as a temporary professor of English literature at Rummidge University, a stand-in for the University of Birmingham. David Lodge (1935-2025) taught English literature from 1960 to 1987 at the university, where he also earned a PhD in 1967. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 17, 2025 24:56 IST

Review: The Last Time I Saw You by Akhil Katyal

On the nature of love and mortality. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:34 IST

Review: In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays by Indrajit Hazra

The good life: lazing on a beach. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 23, 2024 16:14 IST

Indian sci-fi: weird and wonderful

Indian Science fiction: Opening doors to worlds that are both new and familiar. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 9, 2024 11:27 IST

Review: The Fast and the Dead byAnuja Chauhan

Married Hindu women look at the moon before breaking their fast on Karva Chauth. (Deepak Gupta/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 04:14 IST

Review: Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

The finished opium balls are stored before shipping in the Stacking Room, where 'a number of boys are constantly engaged in stacking, turning, airing, and examining the balls. To clear them of mildew, moths or insects, they are rubbed with dried and crushed poppy petal dust. Finally, the balls are transferred into cardboard boxes and loaded into ships bound for Calcutta and, ultimately, China – original caption to the lithograph by Captain Walter Stanhope Sherwill. (Universal Images Group via Getty)

Updated on Oct 7, 2023 04:08 IST

Review: A Man from Motihari byAbdullah Khan

A view of the house in Motihari, Bihar, where George Orwell was born. (Sanchit Khanna/H)

Updated on Apr 21, 2023 12:26 IST

Review: The Mahatma on Celluloid by Prakash Magdum

MK Gandhi in Noakhali, Assam, during the partition riots of 1947. (HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 10, 2023 10:39 IST

Review: Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat

Like the matryoshka dolls that usually follow a theme, the stories in Pariat’s novel follow the themes of botany and travel. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 28, 2022 13:18 IST

Review: The Life and Times of George Fernandes by Rahul Ramagundam

George Fernandes in a picture dated 9 April 1973. (HT Photo.)

Updated on Aug 12, 2022 13:58 IST

Review: The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

Of reality and illusion; of imagined futures: At the Heart of Cyberpunk exhibition in Hong Kong, 2020. (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Updated on Jun 18, 2022 09:15 IST

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