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    Book Review: Summer in the City is a guilty pleasure, monsoon fling with reading

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    Published on Aug 5, 2025 08:31 IST
    Cover of the book Summer in the City, by Alex Aster.

    Advait Kottary: ‘I did not want the book to sound preachy or academic’

    Actor-turned-author Advait Kottary.
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    Updated on Aug 4, 2025 09:21 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on fleeing Indian elites, a volume that blends travelogue with memoir, and another that traces the journey of the Chenab. (Shirish Sharma)
    books
    Published on Aug 2, 2025 01:10 IST

    Simon Lamouret: “I wish we had more narratives with an Eastern gaze on the West”

    Graphic novelist Simon Lamouret (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Aug 2, 2025 01:06 IST

    Review: The Wanderer by V Shinilal

    In The Wanderer, the train is a metaphor for the country (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Aug 2, 2025 01:00 IST

    Review: From the King’s Table to Street Food by Pushpesh Pant

    Fasting and feasting in Delhi’s Jama Masjid market (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)
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    Published on Aug 2, 2025 24:58 IST

    Vivek Nityananda: “It’s important to listen to dissenting voices”

    Author Vivek Nityananda (Courtesy https://viveknityananda.com/)
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    Published on Aug 1, 2025 16:03 IST

    Walking with writers: Yashasvi Vachhani

    Yashasvi Vachhani (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Jul 30, 2025 16:34 IST

    Review: Strange Pictures by Uketsu

    A graveyard in Kyoto, Japan (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Jul 29, 2025 14:39 IST

    Karan Tejpal: “For me, the real writing happens in the rewriting”

    Karan Tejpal, screenwriter and director of Stolen. (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Published on Jul 29, 2025 09:57 IST

    Gideon Levy: “I want to live in a just state”

    Israeli author and journalist Gideon Levy (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)
    books
    Published on Jul 28, 2025 23:44 IST

    Missed the magic? These 7 fantasy novels of 2025 await you

    From Beasts of Carnaval and Alchemy and a Cup of Tea to Hemlock & Silver, these books are on top of out 2025 TBR list
    htcity delhi junction
    Published on Jul 28, 2025 12:38 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book of poems, a volume on the mango, a fruit that inspires great devotion, and a story about technology. (Shirish Sharma)
    books
    Published on Jul 25, 2025 23:34 IST

    Yael van der Wouden: “History also serves as an unfinished thought”

    Author Yael van der Wouden (Courtesy womensprize.com)
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    Published on Jul 25, 2025 23:32 IST

    Review: Broken Nest and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

    Madhabi Mukherjee in and as Charulata. The film directed by Satyajit Ray was based on Broken Nest by Rabindranath Tagore. (HT Archive)
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    Published on Jul 25, 2025 23:30 IST

    Review: On the Brink of Belief edited by Kazim Ali

    India celebrate the wicket of England's Tammy Beaumont during the third women's one day international match between England and India at the Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street, England on July 22, 2025. In Darling by Kiran Kumar, a boy at the cusp of manhood watches a women’s cricket game which stirs ‘powerful emotions of gender yearning’. (AP)
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    Published on Jul 25, 2025 17:26 IST

    Book Review: K Anis Ahmed's Carnivore is a collision of gourmet and grotesque

    The cover of K Anis Ahmed's fourth novel, Carnivore.
    htcity delhi junction
    Published on Jul 25, 2025 12:52 IST

    Report: The Sacred Amritsar 2025

    Rehmat-e-Nusrat at The Sacred Amritsar (Courtesy The Sacred Amritsar)
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    Published on Jul 25, 2025 08:01 IST

    Report: The 2025 Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival

    O Gaanewali celebrated figures such as Gauhar Jaan, Jaddanbai, Begum Akhtar and Shobha Gurtu (among others) through performances of iconic pieces from their repertoire. (L-R) Akshay Jadhav, Rutuja Lad, Avanti Patel, and Nusrat Apoorv. (Courtesy Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival)
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    Published on Jul 24, 2025 11:22 IST

    Review: Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema by Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

    Ranveer Singh as Khilji in Padmavat. “An unprecedented surge in structuring films on themes related to Muslim rulers reveals a sense of naivety on the part of the directors, who seem to believe that retelling the past or the imagined past settles the question of cultural identity.” (Film still)
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    Published on Jul 23, 2025 16:48 IST

    Review: Shape of an Apostrophe by Uttama Kirit Patel

    Palace as prison: Shape of an Apostrophe examines the innumerable ways in which a woman’s body is made the subject of constant interrogation in a patriarchal society. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Jul 23, 2025 11:58 IST

    VV Ganeshananthan: “Writing isn’t activism; it doesn’t actually change anything”

    Author VV Ganeshananthan at JLF 2025 (Jaipur Literature Festival)
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    Published on Jul 21, 2025 10:59 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a tale full of suspense, a fable with an understanding of human nature, and a book on how India can profit from ongoing transitions. (Shirish Sharma)
    books
    Published on Jul 19, 2025 01:10 IST

    Sanjena Sathian: “There’s a very thin line between utopia and cults”

    Author Sanjena Sathian (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Published on Jul 19, 2025 01:06 IST

    Review: Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya

    An annaprasan ceremony in Assam. The ritual of a child’s first rice feeding is practised by most communities in India. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Jul 19, 2025 01:04 IST

    Review: The Day the Earth Bloomed by Manoj Kuroor

    The Airavatesvara Temple built by the Cholas in Darasuram, now in modern Tamil Nadu. The Cholas were one of the great dynasties of the Sangam period (300 BCE to 300 CE). (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Jul 19, 2025 01:00 IST

    Report: A reading in honour of Gieve Patel

    Gieve Patel photographed at his studio in Mumbai, on January, 24, 2009. (Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint)
    books
    Published on Jul 18, 2025 11:23 IST

    Book Review: The Retirement Plan will keep you guessing but hardly engaged

    Cover of the book, The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs
    htcity delhi junction
    Updated on Jul 17, 2025 17:27 IST

    Review: Widows; A Global History by Mineke Schipper

    Widows in Vrindavan celebrating Diwali on the banks of the Yamuna. (Rajeev Tyagi / Hindustan Times)
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    Updated on Jul 17, 2025 10:03 IST

    Bilal Moin: “Cities are spaces where languages collide and mutate”

    Bilal Moin, editor and curator of The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City (Tony Wang)
    books
    Published on Jul 17, 2025 07:02 IST
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