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    Faramerz Dabhoiwala: “We can’t seem to agree on free speech at all”

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    Published on Oct 19, 2026 13:17 IST
    Historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala teaches at Princeton University (Jaipur Literature Festival)

    Seán Hewitt: “Love is a great spur to fiction”

    Seán Hewitt (Stuart Simpson/Penguin Random House)
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    Published on Oct 17, 2026 18:12 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    On the reading list this week is a book about a historical relic that also traces Bhagat Singh’s intellectual evolution, another on disease in colonial India, and selections from Rumer Godden’s autobiographical writing (Sanjeev Kumar)
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    Published on Oct 16, 2026 21:34 IST

    Review: In the Realm of the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

    Japanese American detainees at Manzanar War Relocation Center in Owens Valley, Inyo County, California on 23rd March 1942. About 80,000 American citizens of Japanese descent were incarcerated in 10 American internment camps during World War II. (Getty Images)
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    Published on Oct 16, 2026 21:32 IST

    Interview: Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta

    Political scientist Jinee Lokaneeta (L) and historian Deana Heath (Kapil Narang)
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    Published on Oct 16, 2026 21:30 IST

    Report: Travel Writing Festival 2026

    Swati Murmu, Aakriti Mandhwani and Chandrahas Choudhury at the panel discussion titled The Past, Present and Future of Reading and Writing (Akankshya Abismruta)
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    Published on Oct 16, 2026 07:09 IST

    Book to Screen: Verity

    Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett in Verity (Alisha Wetherill/Amazon MGM Studios)
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    Published on Oct 15, 2026 14:07 IST

    Review: The End of Everything by M John Harrison

    An English beach much like the one Phillip Tennant walks down. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 15, 2026 05:57 IST

    Narayani Basu: “History is about real people and where they came from”

    Narayani Basu, author, A Man for All Seasons; The Life of KM Panikkar (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)
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    Updated on Oct 14, 2026 06:44 IST

    The afterlife of Barbara Cartland

    Forever pretty in pink: Barbara Cartland (Shared by Jonathan Miller)
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    Updated on Oct 13, 2026 14:46 IST

    Atif Syed: “The more I explored Aligarh’s past, the richer the story became”

    Author Atif Syed (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Updated on Oct 12, 2026 13:52 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a debut collection of poems, an analysis of the traditional clothing of Gujarat and Rajasthan , and a memoir by a pioneering Indian reporter (Sanjeev Kumar)
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    Published on Oct 9, 2026 21:38 IST

    Asad Rahmani: “We need to bring back vultures to restore ecological balance”

    Asad Rahmani, author, Where Have the Birds Gone? (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Oct 9, 2026 21:36 IST

    Review: The First House by Avni Doshi

    The First House examines the death of a marriage in American suburbia (Getty Images)
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    Published on Oct 9, 2026 21:34 IST

    Review: Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings by Jared Diamon

    To be, or not to be...: The Hamlet Test (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 9, 2026 21:32 IST

    Anne Carson and the art of being wrong

    Anne Carson, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2026 outside her home in Reykjavik, Iceland. (REUTERS)
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    Published on Oct 9, 2026 17:56 IST

    Review: Hot Butter Cuttlefish by Ashok Ferrey

    Scene in a picturesque village in Sri Lanka (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 9, 2026 07:13 IST

    Amin Jaffer: “We carry home with us, even as places around us change”

    Amin Jaffer pictured with Rajani Shettar’s Under the same sky. (Andrea Avezzu)
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    Updated on Oct 7, 2026 06:43 IST

    Jeffrey Archer: The final twist in the tale

    Author Jeffrey Archer (15 April 1940-5 October 2026) (HT Archive)
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    Updated on Oct 6, 2026 11:43 IST

    Ensia Mirza: “I look at the world in a gender-neutral way”

    Screenwriter Ensia Mirza (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Oct 5, 2026 14:27 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of good reads includes the story of King Marthanda Varma of Travancore, a book on women’s anger, and a historical mystery. (Amit Sharma)
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    Published on Oct 2, 2026 21:30 IST

    Min Jin Lee: “The filtering of human hopes through exams is tragic”

    Author Min Jin Lee (Hae Ran)
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    Updated on Oct 2, 2026 17:10 IST

    Review: Home in the Dark by Jayanta Dey

    A Durga pandal in Kolkata based on the theme of Time. (Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett)
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    Published on Oct 2, 2026 16:52 IST

    Review: The Dig by Sowmiya Ashok

    Archaeological remains at Keeladi (Wikimedia Commons)
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    Published on Oct 2, 2026 16:48 IST

    Nature Morte at 30

    Peter Nagy (Nawaid Anjum)
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    Updated on Oct 2, 2026 15:22 IST

    Review: Taipei Story by RF Kuang

    The Taipei skyline over the National Taiwan University (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 1, 2026 09:42 IST

    Lucy Worsley had the keys to the palace. Now she’s telling its stories

    Author Lucy Worsley (Mark Hines)
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    Updated on Oct 1, 2026 07:58 IST

    Ajay Aggarwal: “It is the cogs that make things happen”

    Author Ajay Aggarwal (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Sep 29, 2026 05:41 IST

    Ashok Ferrey: “Often the comedy was way too black to put down on paper”

    Author Ashok Ferrey (Courtesy Siyahi)
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    Updated on Sep 28, 2026 10:35 IST

    Gandhi-Tolstoy’s seven letters inspire descendants’ new book on truth, love

    A sketch of Leo Tolstoy by his daughter, Tatiana Sukhotina Tolstoy, sent to Mahatma Gandhi in 1931
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    Published on Sep 28, 2026 09:04 IST
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