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Book Box: Your phone, privilege, govt: The unseen walls around you

Updated on Nov 02, 2025 03:30 pm IST

What do you do when you come up against walls that box you in, or a system that tries to change who you are?

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book set in Mumbai’s Kamathipura that challenges perceptions of sex work, a collection of stories from the Vetala Panchavimshati , featuring Vikram and the vetala, and a volume on the author’s epic journeys down the Brahmaputra. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Nov 01, 2025 03:22 am IST

Review: Caste; A Global Story by Suraj Milind Yengde

The India Day celebrations in New York. The most interesting sections of Suraj Yengde’s new book include expositions of the diaspora in Trinidad and the US, and the growth of caste among the Indian communities there. (Shutterstock)

Published on Nov 01, 2025 03:18 am IST

Daisy Rockwell: “I have always known that ghosts are among us”

Author and translator Daisy Rockwell (Beowulf Sheehan)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 11:41 pm IST

Review: Giants by Huthuka Sumi

A view of Kohima, the capital of Nagaland. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 31, 2025 11:34 pm IST

Insights into the Iron Man

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressing the nation from All India Radio Station in New Delhi. (HT Archives)

Published on Oct 31, 2025 01:06 pm IST

Anumeha Yadav: “The Adivasi way of life can teach us a lot ”

32pp, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>299; Red Panda, Westland Books

Updated on Oct 30, 2025 08:22 pm IST

Reading Alejandro Zambra: adventures in parenthood

Author Alejandro Zambra (Press office, Presidency of the republic of Chile/Wikimedia)

Published on Oct 30, 2025 05:15 pm IST

Laszlo Krasznahorkai: The master of the apocalypse

A bleak picture: Krasznahorkai’s Hungary is a post-ideological wreck. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 30, 2025 03:32 pm IST

Keats at 230: A short life, an endless legacy

A UK postal stamp from 1971. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 28, 2025 06:06 pm IST

Ram Murali: “My book is a love letter to Agatha Christie”

Ram Murali, author, Death in the Air (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Oct 27, 2025 04:45 pm IST

Book review: Satoshi Yagisawa's Days at the Torunka Café reminds of a slow life

Cover of Japanese author Satoshi Yagisawa's new novel, Days at the Torunka Café.

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Oct 27, 2025 12:21 pm IST

Book Box | In Azerbaijan, finding India again

A Bombay Book club at Lunch with Bilal Aliyev.

Updated on Oct 26, 2025 02:19 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on Doordarshan and the early era of television in India and a volume that traces how India attempted huge transformations even as it stayed democratic. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Oct 25, 2025 04:24 am IST

Leela Samson: “There is no prejudice that you cannot overcome”

Dancer and author Leela Samson (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 25, 2025 04:18 am IST

Review: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar by Indra Das

Saint George and the Dragon (1505) by Raphael. In the novel, Ru’s parents tell him they are descendents of St George. (Getty Images)

Published on Oct 25, 2025 04:16 am IST

Review: A Billion Butterflies by Jagadish Shukla

The author’s avowed lifelong dream has been to predict the Indian monsoon. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 25, 2025 04:06 am IST

Report: Good.To.Go. Death Literacy Festival

The Good.To.Go. Death Literacy Festival opened with a panel discussion on “What does dying in India look like right now?” (GoodToGo Death Literacy Festival)

Published on Oct 24, 2025 11:08 am IST

Report: Poetry Circle 2.0

From left: Dion D’Souza, Akil Contractor, Menka Shivdasani, Jerry Pinto and Akhil Katyal at the launch of Poetry Circle 2.0 at the People’s Reading Room and Library (Suhit Bombaywala)

Published on Oct 23, 2025 06:57 pm IST

From Sindh in books: breaking silence, rebuilding memory

“When the passenger ship SS Jaladurga docked in Bombay on 14 November 1947, most of the evacuees from Karachi had never stepped outside Sindh before. They were entering a new life where they would stop speaking their language and set aside the traditions and stories of their ancestors.” - @Sindhitapestry on Instagram (Courtesy sindhitapestry on Instagram)

Published on Oct 23, 2025 03:07 pm IST

Poetry: Animal Kingdom and I

The crushing mass of humanity (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 23, 2025 07:01 pm IST

Zarna Garg: “I’ve been saying inappropriate things my whole life”

Stand up comic and author of This American Woman, Zarna Garg (STUDIOPARAB/Courtesy zarnagarg.com)

Published on Oct 21, 2025 03:32 pm IST

Book Box | Many Ramayanas, one Diwali

Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons

Updated on Oct 19, 2025 06:09 pm IST

All aboard: Inside Britain’s beloved second-hand bookshop

The arched halls of Barter Books are packed with shelves carrying more than 350,000 titles. (Courtesy Barter Books)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025 11:15 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a portrait of Indian democracy, a debut novel set in the forests of Ekarmala, and a book on the East India Company’s conquest of India. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Oct 17, 2025 10:12 pm 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)

Published on Oct 17, 2025 09:15 pm IST

Bora Chung: “We Asians are proud of our ghosts”

Author Bora Chung (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 17, 2025 08:33 pm IST

Excerpt: Modi’s Mission by Berjis Desai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)

Published on Oct 17, 2025 07:25 pm IST

Author of popular book I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki dies at 35

I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki author, Baek Se-hee, dies at 35

Published on Oct 17, 2025 05:43 pm IST

Amrita Mahale: “We are all unknowable in some ways”

Author Amrita Mahale (Courtesy the subject’s instagram)

Published on Oct 17, 2025 01:26 am IST

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