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Report: Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival

Updated on Feb 17, 2026 12:22 IST
A session titled From Feluda to the Kothas had Sanghamitra Chakraborty, Manish Gaekwad and Poulami Chatterjee Bose in conversation with Arunava Sinha. (Courtesy AKLF)

A conversation on poetry and walking

Schoolgirls walking much like the poet Sivakami Velliangiri and her friends did. “ As a schoolgirl, walking was a collective activity – a group of girls coming into their own, forging bonds of womanhood, and concocting stories about the unknown...” (Shutterstock)
Updated on Feb 17, 2026 08:55 IST

Book Box: Loving The Other Reader

A Valentine for incompatible readers.
Updated on Feb 15, 2026 11:00 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book by a Jungian analyst that helps Indian readers understand love, an updated edition of a classic work on cancer, and a collection of 200 of Mir’s best verses. (Akash Shrivastav)
Updated on Feb 13, 2026 17:23 IST

Neige Sinno: “Abusers are regular people”

Author Neige Sinno (Domine Jeromeabaca/Courtesy The French Institute in India)
Published on Feb 13, 2026 17:22 IST

Solace from the printed word

“Books have always kept me company.” (Shutterstock)
Published on Feb 12, 2026 11:35 IST

On Delhi’s many stories

Aishwarya Jha (L) and Sara Abdullah Pilot, co-founders of Kahaani: Dilli Ki (Pix courtesy Kahaani: Dilli Ki)
Updated on Feb 9, 2026 22:17 IST

Review: Never Logged Out by Ria Chopra

Always online: Young Indians (NuDebajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Published on Feb 6, 2026 22:06 IST

Benyamin: “Courage is basic to writing”

Author Benyamin (Courtesy Kerala Literature Festival)
Published on Feb 6, 2026 08:32 IST

Report: Prithvi Festival

Yuki Elias in A Fish Ate My Cat (Courtesy Prithvi Theatre)
Published on Feb 6, 2026 24:40 IST

Review: Birds, Sex & Beauty by Matt Ridley

Black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) at lek. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Feb 6, 2026 01:34 IST

Winter reading retreats in the Himalayas

The hush of the mountains in winter. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Feb 5, 2026 01:11 IST

Report: Ghazipur Literature Festival

Vivek Satya Mitram, Zolani Mkiva and Pooja Priyamvada at the festival. (Courtesy Ghazipur Literature Festival)
Updated on Feb 4, 2026 06:26 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a graphic novel on belonging and becoming and a sumptuous volume on Indian jewellery. (Akash Shrivastav)
Published on Jan 30, 2026 21:52 IST

Review: The Elsewhereans by Jeet Thayil

Hong Kong in the 1970s. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
Published on Jan 30, 2026 21:50 IST

Report: Ubud Writers & Readers Festival

The Ladies of the Booker Prize session featuring Deepa Bhasthi (second from left), Jenny Erpenbeck (centre) and Banu Mushtaq (second from right). (Courtesy UWRF)
Updated on Jan 30, 2026 07:48 IST

Review: Katabasis by RF Kuang

Spiralling down to the underworld. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Jan 28, 2026 04:57 IST

Report: Travel Writing Festival

Jerry Pinto, Ravi Singh, Sanjay Kak and Sampad Patnaik at the Travel Writing Festival (Akankshya Abismruta)
Published on Jan 26, 2026 06:02 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an ambitious anthology of Bengali writing in translation, a queer debut novel, and a book on the French Empire in India. (Akash Shrivastav)
Updated on Jan 24, 2026 05:28 IST