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    HT Picks; New Reads

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    Published on Oct 30, 2026 21:46 IST
    This week’s pick of good reads includes a book on modern parenthood, another on Himalayan culture, and a history of the Dalit Panther. (Sanjeev Kumar)

    Nabaarun Barooah: ‘We can never reconstruct the past perfectly’

    Author Nabaarun Barooah (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Oct 30, 2026 21:44 IST

    Review: The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble

    Gautamiputra Kamble’s tales recall the magical stories of childhood, with their kings, mysterious women and forests, which taken together imparted a complex wisdom. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 30, 2026 21:42 IST

    Review: When We Are Strangers by Vazira Zamindar and Sarnath Banerjee

    British colonial troops at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar on April 23, 1930. The mass shooting of unarmed civilians became a defining moment of the independence movement. (Wikimedia Commons)
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    Published on Oct 30, 2026 21:40 IST

    GJV Prasad: “Each of us is a translator, but we don’t know it”

    Translator GJV Prasad (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)
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    Updated on Oct 30, 2026 05:30 IST

    Review: Between Worlds, edited by Gautam Bhatia

    A portal to a different world (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 29, 2026 12:31 IST

    Review: The Disappearers by Marlon James

    The scene in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 29, 2026 09:49 IST

    Hoihnu Hauzel: “Home is supposed to be the safest place”

    Author Hoihnu Hauzel (Courtesy www.hoihnuhuazel.com)
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    Published on Oct 28, 2026 15:21 IST

    Manoj Tapadia: “No director can make a good film out of a bad screenplay”

    Director and screenwriter Manoj Tapadia (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Oct 26, 2026 13:23 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on bipolar disorder, another on Bharatanatyam, and one on the desires of contemporary Indians (Sanjeev Kumar)
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    Published on Oct 23, 2026 21:36 IST

    Ruthvika Rao: “I find myself drawn to contradictions”

    Author Ruthvika Rao (Courtesy Keerthi Vallabh Gade)
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    Published on Oct 23, 2026 21:34 IST

    Review: Sleep Journeys byAzra Abbas

    Birds and animals fill the dreamscape of Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 23, 2026 21:30 IST

    Review: Operation Silkyara by Saurabh Sharma

    Ambulances stand outside the Silkyara tunnel on 28 November 2023, the last day of the rescue operation. (ANI)
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    Published on Oct 23, 2026 18:34 IST

    Hello Meghalaya: hyperlocal and highly successful

    Pradip Kurbah’s award winning Ha Lyngkha Bneng (The Elysian Field) was created from a Hello Meghalaya grant. (Film still)
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    Published on Oct 23, 2026 06:00 IST

    Report: Remembering Veenapani Festival 2026

    Nimmy Raphel in Adishakti’s A Woman or Not to Be (Adishakti Theatre)
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    Updated on Oct 23, 2026 08:44 IST

    Ayesha Muzaffar: “A jinn is almost comforting compared with devilish humans”

    Author Ayesha Muzaffar (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Oct 21, 2026 18:20 IST

    Review: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

    A coastal town in Massachusetts much like the one in Elizabeth Strout’s novel. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 21, 2026 12:06 IST

    Review: Life of M by Rachel Cusk

    Many readers have connected M in Cusk’s novel with Hollywood star Natalie Portman (pictured). (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 20, 2026 14:03 IST

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

    Historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala teaches at Princeton University (Jaipur Literature Festival)
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    Updated on Oct 20, 2026 09:18 IST

    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
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