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Review: Happiness Happens by Robin Singh

Published on Oct 16, 2025 01:46 pm IST

Robin Singh, author of Happiness Happens (Pic courtesy subject’s Instagram page @locaterobin)

A timely literary listicle

The rainbow flag, a symbol of LGBTQ pride and social movements. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 15, 2025 10:27 pm IST

Chetan Bhagat: I don’t, but Indians care about films because they don’t read

Author Chetan Bhagat talks about his new book, 12 Years, and how he managed to delve into the world of new age romances at 51.

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Oct 15, 2025 06:00 am IST

Pratyush Gupta: “Keep creating and do not lose hope”

Musician, designer and author Pratyush Gupta (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 14, 2025 07:07 pm IST

Book Box | Azerbaijan, Ali and the art of eating with your hands

Ali and Nino.

Updated on Oct 12, 2025 03:26 pm IST

Book review: Sugar Daddy is a provocative, pacy murder mystery for modern reader

The cover of Jayanti Ranganathan’s latest Hindi novel, Sugar Daddy.

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Oct 12, 2025 06:00 am IST

Asiya Islam: “Without women’s unpaid work, the economy would not function”

Author Asiya Islam (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 11, 2025 04:04 am IST

Review: A Stranger in Three Worlds by Aubrey Menen

Borah Bazaar, Bombay, circa 1935. In The Dead Man in the Silver Market, Aubrey Menen recounts witnessing a British soldier killing an Indian civilian in broad daylight at a market just like the one in the picture. (Getty Images)

Published on Oct 11, 2025 03:44 am IST

Review: A Return to Self; Excursions in Exile by Aatish Taseer

A view of Erdene Zuu, Mongolia’s oldest surviving monastery (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 11, 2025 03:34 am IST

Catherine Thankamma: “I celebrate the quiet resilience of women”

Translator and author Catherine Thankamma (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 11, 2025 01:58 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a collection of stories on love, loss and kindness, a volume of character sketches on Punjab’s iconic cultural personalities, and a genre-bending memoir (Akash Shrivastav)

Updated on Oct 11, 2025 01:42 am IST

What people talk about when they talk about antisemitism

Representative image.

Updated on Oct 10, 2025 10:53 am IST

Review: Baldwin; A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs

A US postage stamp commemorating James Baldwin. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 10, 2025 05:08 am IST

Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players... (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 09, 2025 03:10 am IST

Keeping Kashmir’s children at the heart of his stories

Mubashir Ahmad Shah (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 08, 2025 08:00 pm IST

Review: Pious Labor by Amanda Lanzillo

A commemorative postal stamp of British India depicting King George V and a mail train. Pious Labor by Amanda Lanzillo quotes from Kalid-i-san‘at ( The Key to Industry , 1890) by Hakimuddin, who worked at the North Western State Railway Locomotive Department at Sukkur (Sindh). He refers to the “train of endless progress”. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 07, 2025 01:36 pm IST

AV Anoop: “I believe in the coexistence of Ayurveda and allopathy”

AV Anoop, author, You Turn (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Oct 06, 2025 04:21 pm IST

Book Box | My best fiction of 2025

Autumn Reading.

Updated on Oct 05, 2025 03:06 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a collection on urban Indian women dealing with mental health conditions, a book on how Hindi came to be written down, and a volume that explores a woman’s life in post independent India (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Oct 04, 2025 03:48 am IST

Mamta Nainy: “Children everywhere are ready to care”

Author Mamta Nainy (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 04, 2025 03:46 am IST

Review: A Stone Thrown in a Pond edited by Ritu Menon

A painting from Giorgio De Chirico's Piazza d'Italia series (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Im)

Published on Oct 04, 2025 03:42 am IST

Review: The Golden Land Ablaze by Bertil Lintner

People protesting against the military coup in Myanmar on 20 Feb 2021. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 04, 2025 03:34 am IST

Review: Red, Green and Sometimes Beige by Kasturi Mahanta

On navigating modern dating (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 04, 2025 02:18 am IST

Ledia Xhoga: “Memories are every person’s invisible cloak”

Author Ledia Xhoga (Courtesy The Booker Prizes)

Published on Oct 02, 2025 03:28 pm IST

Review: Flashlight by Susan Choi

Jeju Island in South Korea. “Midway through, Serk’s sabbatical takes him to Japan. His parents were from Jeju Island and learning, as a child, that the place wasn’t Japanese but Korean was “so profoundly disorienting that the greater discovery, that he himself was Korean, was for the moment secondary.” (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 02, 2025 02:25 pm IST

Review: A New World Romance by Susham Bedi

Bridging the old world and the new: An Indian couple in USA. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 01, 2025 10:32 pm IST

Sunny Singh: “We can’t move towards justice if we can’t recognise injustice”

Author Sunny Singh (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Sept 30, 2025 07:00 pm IST

Ministhy S: Words like compassion are extremely relevant in a hate-filled world

IAS officer and translator, Ministhy S (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Sept 29, 2025 05:49 pm IST

Book Box | Looking for the snow leopard in a hospital cafeteria

The Snow Leopard

Updated on Sept 28, 2025 04:22 pm IST

Book picks; new reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a look into the life a legendary Indian classical musician, and a novel set across Asia at the peak of the Delta wave (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Sept 28, 2025 04:54 am IST

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