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    The dynasty of the living dead

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    Updated on May 2, 2025 17:17 IST
    The ruins of Malcha Mahal two years after the death, on September 2, 2017, of its last resident, Ali Raza. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

    Creativity, censorship and clever camouflage

    Early twentieth century Indian playwrights and the fight for Bharat Mata. Painting of Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore. (Wikimedia Commons)
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    Published on May 2, 2025 09:37 IST

    Page to screen: On Queer, desire and disembodiment

    “When Burroughs described Lee as a man whose “face was ravaged and vicious and old,” Daniel Craig is not the first person who comes to mind. Sporting wrinkled linen suits, khakis and a fedora, the English actor can make even the sordid tasteful.” (Film still from MUBI)
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    Published on May 2, 2025 24:41 IST

    Review: The Deras by Santosh K Singh

    Dera Sachkhand Ballan near Jalandhar in Punjab. (HT Photo)
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    Published on May 1, 2025 17:09 IST

    Kishore Mahbubani: “India will have to engage the rest of the world more”

    Kishore Mahbubani, author, diplomat, and former president of the UN Security Council (Courtesy mahbubani.net)
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    Published on Apr 30, 2025 11:32 IST

    Review: Mithu UnMyth Sen

    Mithu Sen with her work at the India Art Fair in New Delhi in 2013 (Jasjeet Plaha/Hindustan Times)
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    Published on Apr 29, 2025 07:44 IST

    Eliot Stein: “We’re becoming a more homogenous species”

    Author Eliot Stein (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Apr 28, 2025 10:38 IST

    Book Review: Author Adichie paints grief through immigrant lives, in Dream Count

    Cover of the book, Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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    Published on Apr 26, 2025 04:06 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    On the reading list this week is a book on an important former princely state’s past and future, a first-person account of danger on the high seas, and a volume on the stunning works of Indian artists of the 18th and early 19th centuries who worked for patrons in the foreign trading companies (Akash Shrivastav)
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    Published on Apr 26, 2025 01:16 IST

    Bena Sareen: “Every book is a new challenge”

    Bena Sareen (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Apr 26, 2025 01:12 IST

    Review: Myth, Memory & Folktale of the Wancho Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh by Tara Douglas and Jatwang Wangsa

    View of a Wancho village in Arunachal Pradesh (Tara Douglas)
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    Published on Apr 26, 2025 01:10 IST

    Abdulrazak Gurnah: “Silence can also be vocal”

    Abdulrazak Gurnah (Lane+Co)
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    Published on Apr 26, 2025 01:04 IST

    Review: Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda

    Women in Zinacantan, Mexico. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Apr 25, 2025 13:06 IST

    Review: Hope; The Autobiography by Pope Francis

    Pope Francis gestures from a balcony as the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) message is delivered, at St. Peter's Square, on Easter Sunday, in the Vatican, April 20, 2025. (Yara Nardi/REUTERS)
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    Published on Apr 24, 2025 08:55 IST

    Review: Cities Rethought by Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith et al

    A view of Mumbai (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 24, 2025 08:36 IST

    Essay: The library as a safe space

    What makes a library a safe and welcoming space, especially for children and young adults who are anxious, or are excluded by peers? Perhaps this has much to do with librarians. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 23, 2025 09:15 IST

    James Bradley: “The ocean shapes the world”

    Author James Bradley at JLF 2025 (Jaipur Literature Festival)
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    Published on Apr 22, 2025 12:10 IST

    Book Review: Dream Girl Drama is a rom-com, passionate read? Yes! Riveting? Ahem

    Author Tessa Bailey's latest book, Dream Girl Drama is worth a read of you are a rom-com lover.
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    Published on Apr 22, 2025 11:23 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of short fiction with the author’s trademark wry humour, pages from a writer’s journal, and a book on the state of Myanmar (Akash Shrivastav)
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    Published on Apr 19, 2025 01:16 IST

    Yaroslav Trofimov: “I’m a Soviet melting pot”

    Author Yaroslav Trofimov (Jaipur Literature Festival)
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    Updated on Apr 19, 2025 01:10 IST

    Review: The Viceroy’s Artist by Anindyo Roy

    Painting titled ‘Kinchinjunga from Darjeeling' (1877) painted by Edward Lear. (Getty Images)
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    Published on Apr 19, 2025 01:09 IST

    Review: How I Write by Sonia Faleiro

    Girish Karnad directing Arundhati Nag in ‘Bhikre Bimb’. Girish Karnad and the American novelist Elizabeth Gilbert both believed that a story chooses its author. (HT Photo)
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    Published on Apr 19, 2025 01:00 IST

    Tales of patriarchy and puzzlement

    India’s linguistic landscape is rich and diverse. The Mozhi Prize’s aims include fostering a “continuous and engaged conversation between writers, readers and critics operating in different languages”, to bring about reduction in “opaqueness between the Anglophone world and non-English Indian languages”. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Apr 18, 2025 10:39 IST

    A Complete Unknown: When Bob Dylan plugged in

    Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. (Film still)
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    Updated on Apr 18, 2025 01:17 IST

    Review: Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan

    A woman in the Canadian wilds. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 17, 2025 15:03 IST

    Taking the Tolkien trail in Birmingham

    Birmingham today. (Visit Birmingham)
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    Published on Apr 16, 2025 05:08 IST

    Report: Hyderabad Literary Festival

    A tribute to Keki Daruwala at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2025 (Akankshya Abismruta)
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    Published on Apr 15, 2025 13:33 IST

    Kiran Bir Sethi: “Every child is born with extraordinary abilities”

    Author and educationist Kiran Bir Sethi (Courtesy Harper Collins)
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    Published on Apr 14, 2025 11:42 IST

    Book Review: Counterattacks at Thirty is unputdownable by way of relatability

    The cover of Counterattacks at Thirty by Won-Pyung Sohn
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    Published on Apr 14, 2025 08:39 IST

    Review: James Bond Will Return edited by Hines, McSweeney and Joy

    Daniel Craig in No Time to Die (2021) (Film still)
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    Published on Apr 11, 2025 14:59 IST
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