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    HT Picks; New Reads

    books
    Published on Oct 31, 2025 21:52 IST
    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)

    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)
    books
    Published on Oct 31, 2025 21:48 IST

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

    Author and translator Daisy Rockwell (Beowulf Sheehan)
    books
    Updated on Oct 31, 2025 18:11 IST

    Review: Giants by Huthuka Sumi

    A view of Kohima, the capital of Nagaland. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Oct 31, 2025 18:04 IST

    Insights into the Iron Man

    Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressing the nation from All India Radio Station in New Delhi. (HT Archives)
    books
    Published on Oct 31, 2025 07:36 IST

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

    32pp, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>299; Red Panda, Westland Books
    books
    Updated on Oct 30, 2025 14:52 IST

    Reading Alejandro Zambra: adventures in parenthood

    Author Alejandro Zambra (Press office, Presidency of the republic of Chile/Wikimedia)
    books
    Published on Oct 30, 2025 11:45 IST

    Laszlo Krasznahorkai: The master of the apocalypse

    A bleak picture: Krasznahorkai’s Hungary is a post-ideological wreck. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Oct 30, 2025 10:02 IST

    Keats at 230: A short life, an endless legacy

    A UK postal stamp from 1971. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Oct 28, 2025 12:36 IST

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

    Ram Murali, author, Death in the Air (Jaipur Literature Festival)
    books
    Updated on Oct 27, 2025 11:15 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 06:51 IST

    Book Box | In Azerbaijan, finding India again

    A Bombay Book club at Lunch with Bilal Aliyev.
    books
    Updated on Oct 26, 2025 08:49 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 24, 2025 22:54 IST

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

    Dancer and author Leela Samson (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Oct 24, 2025 22:48 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 24, 2025 22:46 IST

    Review: A Billion Butterflies by Jagadish Shukla

    The author’s avowed lifelong dream has been to predict the Indian monsoon. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Oct 24, 2025 22:36 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 24, 2025 05:38 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 23, 2025 13:27 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 23, 2025 09:37 IST

    Poetry: Animal Kingdom and I

    The crushing mass of humanity (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Oct 23, 2025 13:31 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 21, 2025 10:02 IST

    Book Box | Many Ramayanas, one Diwali

    Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons
    books
    Updated on Oct 19, 2025 12:39 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)
    books
    Updated on Oct 17, 2025 17:45 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 17, 2025 16:42 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 17, 2025 15:45 IST

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

    Author Bora Chung (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Oct 17, 2025 15:03 IST

    Excerpt: Modi’s Mission by Berjis Desai

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)
    books
    Published on Oct 17, 2025 13:55 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
    cinema
    Published on Oct 17, 2025 12:13 IST

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

    Author Amrita Mahale (Courtesy the subject’s instagram)
    books
    Published on Oct 16, 2025 19:56 IST

    Review: Happiness Happens by Robin Singh

    Robin Singh, author of Happiness Happens (Pic courtesy subject’s Instagram page @locaterobin)
    books
    Published on Oct 16, 2025 08:16 IST
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