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When irony loses its superpower

Self referential comedy when it’s done right: Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr (1924) (Courtesy iMDB)
Published on Jul 15, 2025 06:50 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on how diasporic South Asians have shaped UK’s LGBTQ+ movements since the 1970s, another on untangling the connections between maths and music, and a Korean novel about three friends who believe good fortune is just around the corner (Shirish Sharma)
Published on Jul 11, 2025 17:21 IST

Review: Little Lhasa by Tsering Namgyal Khortsa

Young Tibetans in McLoed Ganj , Dharamsala (Anushree Fadnavis/ Hindustan Times)
Published on Jul 11, 2025 17:19 IST

Review: The Notbook of Kabir by Anand

Painting of Kabir weaving, c. 1825 (Central Museum, Jaipur/Wikimedia Commons)
Published on Jul 11, 2025 17:06 IST

Singapore Art Week: Wild and wonderful

Singaporean artist Jahan Loh’s Postcards from Space (Riddhi Doshi)
Published on Jul 11, 2025 10:48 IST

Review: My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Childhood’s end. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Jul 10, 2025 09:41 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book of recipes from the princely state of Rampur, an account of the Hindi belt, a region that greatly influences the nation’s politics, culture, and identity, and a volume on the power of data. (HT Team)
Published on Jul 5, 2025 03:19 IST

Review: Life on Mars by Namita Gokhale

Pahari painting of Gandhari with maid-servants, by Purkhu, c. 1820 CE. “The pleasure of reading Life on Mars is that the stories aren’t driven by moral arcs, as much as I ached to pass a judgement. They are driven by discomfort. Qandhari blindfolded herself and became a queen, a mother of a hundred sons. She is a woman raging at the absurdity of her fate”. (Wikimedia Commons)
Published on Jul 5, 2025 03:10 IST

Review: Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

A quiet town in Northern Ireland much like the one that’s the setting for Sunburn. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Jul 3, 2025 12:41 IST

Ten lessons I learned from Kaziranga

A magnificent rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park (Shutterstock)
Published on Jul 1, 2025 23:32 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a portrait of one of India’s first public intellectuals, the raw material of internet life, and tracing the journeys of eight singular voices (Shirish Sharma)
Published on Jun 27, 2025 17:19 IST

Review: Loal Kashmir by Mehak Jamal

Under the chinar trees at the Nishat Mughal garden in Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jun 27, 2025 17:16 IST

Behind the scenes of Deepa Bhasthi’s new book

A page from Champi and the Fig Tree (Courtesy Pratham Books)
Published on Jun 27, 2025 17:15 IST