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HT Picks; New Reads

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Published on Jul 31, 2026 10:26 pm IST
This week’s pick of interesting reads (Amit Sharma)
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Yoshitoki Ōima: “It’s wonderful to see manga reach people everywhere”

Author Yoshitoki Oima (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)
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Published on Aug 01, 2026 07:47 am IST

The making of a new Rahi Masoom Reza

Rahi Masoom Reza (Courtesy Mariyam Reza)
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Published on Aug 01, 2026 06:57 am IST

Review: Thinking of Winter byShantanu Naidu

Author Shantanu Naidu with Winter (Courtesy the subject)
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Published on Jul 31, 2026 09:51 pm IST

Excerpt: Batanagar by Paramita Sen

A Bata store in India in 1939. (Courtesy Batanagar by Paramita Sen)
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Published on Jul 31, 2026 10:27 am IST

A taste of Japan plated with a side of books

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The Wild Sakura in Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand (Arunima Mazumdar)
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Updated on Jul 30, 2026 05:13 pm IST

Review: The Last Free Naga by Jim Wungramyao Kasom

Children participating in a festival in Ukhrul, Manipur. (Shutterstock)
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Published on Jul 30, 2026 02:12 pm IST

Agatha Christie’s most overlooked detectives

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Antonia Thomas and Josh Dylan in Tommy & Tuppence (Courtesy Britbox)
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Updated on Jul 29, 2026 07:28 pm IST

Tahmima Anam: “Progress depends on those who rebel”

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Author Tahmima Anam (Probir Das)
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Updated on Jul 28, 2026 08:42 pm IST

Pawan Dhall: “We have to fight discrimination within queer communities”

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Author Pawan Dhall (Courtesy the subject’s X account)
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Updated on Jul 27, 2026 07:56 pm IST

Review: Who Owns the Past? by Shaan Kashyap

LK Advani’s Ram Rath Yatra that set off from Somnath, Gujarat, on September 25, 1990, increased public support for the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. (HT Photo)
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Published on Jul 25, 2026 01:45 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that offers practical advice to foster positive lifelong relationships, a novel that explores the central character’s profound sense of isolation, and a novella about the first year of a pair of twin babies. (Amit Sharma)
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Published on Jul 24, 2026 10:01 pm IST

Livia Manera Sambuy: “Many people didn’t want me to discover what happened”

Author Livia Manera Sambuy (Courtesy the subject)
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Published on Jul 24, 2026 10:00 pm IST

Review: Doordarshan Diaries by Sheila Chaman

Sheila Chaman (far right) on the talk show, Live Wire. (HT Archive)
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Published on Jul 24, 2026 09:58 pm IST

Of AI hallucinations and brain rot

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Separately together (Shutterstock)
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Updated on Jul 24, 2026 01:21 pm IST

Review: Nainital; Through Memory, Stories & History by Janhavi Prasada

A view of Nainital (Shutterstock)
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Published on Jul 23, 2026 02:27 pm IST

Book to Screen: The Odyssey

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A scene form The Odyssey (Universal Pictures)
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Updated on Jul 23, 2026 02:18 pm IST

Akram Abdulfattah: “Music can remind us of our shared humanity”

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Violinist Akram Abdulfattah (Courtesy BLR Hubba)
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Published on Jul 23, 2026 01:10 am IST

Review: Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

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The uses of art. (Shutterstock)
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Updated on Jul 21, 2026 09:43 pm IST

Sandip Roy: “Chapal Rani made his own rules; that’s why he’s a queer survivor”

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Author Sandip Roy (Courtesy Seagull Books)
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Updated on Jul 20, 2026 05:01 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a veteran journalist’s account of his years in Bolywood, an Israeli peace activist’s reports from the West Bank, and poetry on exile and extinction. (Amit Sharma)
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Published on Jul 18, 2026 03:06 am IST

Farrukh Dhondy: “Writing fiction is never a purely logical process”

Author Farrukh Dhondy (Courtesy the subject)
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Published on Jul 18, 2026 03:04 am IST

Review: The Girl from Fergana by Jonathan Gil Harris

A woman preparing kurut (dried yogurt balls), a traditional Kyrgyz food, in the Fergana Valley in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan. (Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Published on Jul 18, 2026 03:02 am IST

Review: The Tihar Players; A Prison Memoir by Mahmood Farooqui

Prisoners in Tihar jail (HT Photo)
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Published on Jul 18, 2026 11:39 am IST

Aditya Bhushan: “Women’s cricket in India mirrors broader social change”

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Aditya Bhushan, author, Her Story, Her Glory (Courtesy the subject)
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Updated on Jul 16, 2026 02:56 pm IST

Review: The Madhouse by Gyan Chaturvedi

A scene from Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), which deals with dehumanisation in an industrial world. Almost a century later, the pressure to be ever productive hasn’t eased. (Film still)
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Published on Jul 16, 2026 02:58 pm IST

Review: Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion

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Migrating white-naped cranes (Shutterstock)
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Updated on Jul 16, 2026 09:38 am IST

Laura Spinney: “Widespread literacy has slowed down language evolution”

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Author Laura Spinney (Studio Cabrelli)
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Updated on Jul 14, 2026 07:38 pm IST

Jonathan Gil Harris: “Whether we like it or not, we are all syncretic”

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Author Jonathan Gil Harris (Courtesy Aleph)
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Updated on Jul 13, 2026 08:32 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes the story of a woman’s search for self realisation after her husband is outed as a sexual harasser, a collection of Emily Eden’s mid-19th century lithographs of India, and an ascetic’s 1898 account of travelling across the high Himalayas (Amit Sharma)
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Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:06 am IST
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