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    HT Picks; New Reads

    books
    Published on Oct 17, 2025 16:42 IST
    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)

    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

    A timely literary listicle

    The rainbow flag, a symbol of LGBTQ pride and social movements. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Oct 15, 2025 16:57 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 00:30 IST

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

    Musician, designer and author Pratyush Gupta (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Oct 14, 2025 13:37 IST

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

    Ali and Nino.
    books
    Updated on Oct 12, 2025 09:56 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 00:30 IST

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

    Author Asiya Islam (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Oct 10, 2025 22:34 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 10, 2025 22:14 IST

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

    A view of Erdene Zuu, Mongolia’s oldest surviving monastery (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Oct 10, 2025 22:04 IST

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

    Translator and author Catherine Thankamma (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Oct 10, 2025 20:28 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)
    books
    Updated on Oct 10, 2025 20:12 IST

    What people talk about when they talk about antisemitism

    Representative image.
    books
    Updated on Oct 10, 2025 05:23 IST

    Review: Baldwin; A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs

    A US postage stamp commemorating James Baldwin. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Oct 9, 2025 23:38 IST

    Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura

    All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players... (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Oct 8, 2025 21:40 IST

    Keeping Kashmir’s children at the heart of his stories

    Mubashir Ahmad Shah (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Oct 8, 2025 14:30 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 7, 2025 08:06 IST

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

    AV Anoop, author, You Turn (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Updated on Oct 6, 2025 10:51 IST

    Book Box | My best fiction of 2025

    Autumn Reading.
    books
    Updated on Oct 5, 2025 09:36 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 3, 2025 22:18 IST

    Mamta Nainy: “Children everywhere are ready to care”

    Author Mamta Nainy (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Oct 3, 2025 22:16 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)
    books
    Published on Oct 3, 2025 22:12 IST

    Review: The Golden Land Ablaze by Bertil Lintner

    People protesting against the military coup in Myanmar on 20 Feb 2021. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Oct 3, 2025 22:04 IST

    Review: Red, Green and Sometimes Beige by Kasturi Mahanta

    On navigating modern dating (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Oct 3, 2025 20:48 IST

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

    Author Ledia Xhoga (Courtesy The Booker Prizes)
    books
    Published on Oct 2, 2025 09:58 IST
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