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    Aria Aber: “In some ways, my novel functions as a love letter to Berlin”

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    Published on Dec 24, 2025 10:49 IST
    Author Aria Aber

    Joan Didion, the cool customer

    Author Joan Didion in 2008 (David Shankbone/ Wikimedia)
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    Published on Dec 23, 2025 09:25 IST

    The Great Shamsuddin Family and the frivolity of being human

    Shreya Dhanwanthary (L), Kritika Kamra and Juhi Babbar in The Great Shamsuddin Family. (Film still)
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    Published on Dec 22, 2025 07:11 IST

    Book Box: Legendary editor Alexandra Pringle on what makes a book last

    Alexandra Pringle in Marrakech.
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    Published on Dec 21, 2025 08:35 IST

    On the unexpected resurgence of Urdu in India

    Visitors at the Jashn-e-Rekhta Festival in New Delhi in 2022. (Sonu Mehta/HT Photo)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 14:48 IST

    HT reviewers pick their best reads of 2025

    Books about the aristocrats who once lived in Delhi’s Malcha Mahal, children’s books featuring medu vadas, novels about emotionally abusive marriages, and more (Kapil Narang)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 12:17 IST

    HT reviewer Syed Saad Ahmed picks his favourite read of 2025

    “Merchant shows how workers today face the same threats as the Luddites did in 19th-century England. Again, the problem is not technology, but how those with power and wealth are using it.” (Little, Brown and Company)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 12:02 IST

    HT reviewer Uttaran Das Gupta picks his favourite read of 2025

    “Although Chaudhuri does not spell it out, I was constantly struck by how often the incidents of the 19th century included in her book were similar to those of our times.” (Penguin)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 12:01 IST

    HT reviewer Teja Lele picks her favourite read of 2025

    “Little about the real Jane Boleyn survives, but Gregory writes her as a woman defined by intellect, instinct, and ambition.She is a sharp observer, a quiet strategist determined to outthink a court ‘filled with wolves’.” (HarperCollins)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:59 IST

    HT reviewer Suhit Bombaywala picks his favourite read of 2025

    “The book is based on teachings from the Pali canon, which examines the nuts and bolts of the human condition: inconstancy and impermanence ( anicca ), frequent unsatisfactoriness ( dukkha ) and not-self ( anatta ).” (Wisdom Publications)
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    Updated on Dec 19, 2025 11:57 IST

    HT reviewer Simar Bhasin picks her favourite reads of 2025

    “What stood our about both Fierceland by Omar Musa and Gurnaik Johal’s Saraswati was their play with form, their use of English that reflected hybridity as well as the geographically broad scope of their texts that unravelled across continents and political contexts.” (Penguin, Hachette India)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:56 IST

    HT reviewer Saurabh Sharma picks their favourite read of 2025

    “What research papers or academic books fail to capture, fiction illuminates — the emotional truth of a story, and its intensity seldom wavers in this 384-page debut novel. “ (Simon and Schuster)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:56 IST

    HT reviewer Saudamini Jain picks her favourite read of 2025

    “This book is essentially about the fracturing of the self, the disintegration of the psyches of Begum Wilayat Mahal and her children, Sakina and Ali Raza, as they are faced with the political and cultural changes of the subcontinent and the weight of history.” (HarperCollins)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:55 IST

    HT reviewer Rutvik Bhandari picks his favourite read of 2025

    “At its core, Anxious People, is about the absurdity of human life. Rather than mocking his characters for their mistakes and mishaps, Backman holds them with tenderness.” (Penguin)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:53 IST

    HT reviewer Pranavi Sharma picks her favourite read of 2025

    “These stories are rooted so wholly in the place they are written from that the author does not mention Kashmir even once. Yet, the conflict reveals itself through its characters.” (Penguin)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:52 IST

    HT reviewer Lamat R Hasan picks her favourite read of 2025

    “Al-Marzuban asserts a dog is more compassionate towards its owner than a father is to his son, or a brother to his sibling. A dog never falls short in this duty, even if it is treated harshly, nor does it abandon his family, even if it is abandoned, often staying by the grave of its owner until it dies.” (Aris & Phillips, 1978)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:50 IST

    HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2025

    “In a post-truth world, where facts are not facts anymore and people are relentlessly bombarded with distractions, it is stories like these that pull us back to the reality of our times. “ (Penguin India)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:48 IST

    HT reviewer Chintan Girish Modi picks his favourite reads of 2025

    “I loved reading this picture book, a short biography of Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade, who is known as the Rice Man of India.” (Pratham Books)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:47 IST

    HT reviewer Akankshya Abismruta picks her favourite read of 2025

    “The story not only centralises a marginalised community but also creates characters that are distinctly shaped within it. It elicits empathy, and the reader hears different views on farmer suicides, education, and life in general.” (Bloomsbury India)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:46 IST

    HT reviewer Arunima Mazumdar picks her favourite read of 2025

    “The book came out in 2016 and this year, Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s film adaptation on Mubi made me return to the novel and its introspective detailing of ideas, occurrences, and outbursts.” (Penguin)
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    Published on Dec 19, 2025 11:45 IST

    Review: The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary

    An aerial view of the bridge over the Sabarmati in Ahmedabad in a picture dated 15 April 1992. In her memoir, Zara Chowdhary writes that, by the 1990s, the city had “slowly splintered” along two sides of the river. (HT Photo)
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    Published on Dec 18, 2025 11:46 IST

    Anadi Athaley: “I see editing as an act of care”

    Anadi Athaley (WikiPortraits Studio at Sundance 2025)
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    Published on Dec 17, 2025 23:18 IST

    Report: Bhoomija Jackfruit Festival

    At the Bhoomija Jackfruit Festival: Jackfruit Songsters 2025 featured participants from 16 schools and songs in eight languages, including one in Asuri, an indigenous language marked endangered by UNESCO. (Pavan Yathindranath)
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    Updated on Dec 16, 2025 16:03 IST

    Report: The 31st Kolkata International Film Festival

    Tribeny Rai’s debut film, Chhora Jastai (Shape of Momo), won the Golden Royal Bengal Tiger Award for Best Film in the Indian Languages Competition at KIFF 2025 (KIFF)
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    Published on Dec 15, 2025 14:34 IST

    Book Box | What I brag about when I brag about reading

    Reading is the most practical escape hatch ever invented.
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    Updated on Jan 29, 2026 05:38 IST

    Review: Alice Sees Ghosts by Daisy Rockwell

    Western yoga enthusiasts in Rishikesh. “Rockwell does not lose the opportunity to poke fun at legions of white American tourists headed to India on a quest.” (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Dec 12, 2025 23:52 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a photobook about a protest movement in Meghalaya, and a heartwarming tale about a baby hedgehog (Monica Gupta)
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    Published on Dec 12, 2025 23:44 IST

    Poetry Pick One for Eunice

    116pp, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>499; HarperCollins (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Published on Dec 12, 2025 23:42 IST

    Komal JB Singh: “The Sikh presence in Kashmir has a long history”

    Author Komal JB Singh (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Dec 12, 2025 23:38 IST

    Review: The Oracle of Hate by Hamza Jalil Albasit

    The novel is set in Karachi as general elections draw near. (Syed Zargham/Getty Images)
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    Published on Dec 12, 2025 23:34 IST
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