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Review: No Place To Call My Own by Alina Gufran

Published on Mar 25, 2025 07:06 pm IST

‘The only way I could understand my last meeting with Azhar was if I could view it as something that happened to everybody, that all women were walking around with giant secrets lodged inside them and on most days, they collapsed with the weight, but on some days they could laugh it off over a glass of cheap wine.’ - Sophia in ‘No Place To Call My Own’ (Shutterstock)

Report: Living Lightly; an Utsav Celebrating Pastoralism in the Deccan

An installation at the exhibition that depicted the sociocultural practices of the pastoralists. (Charumathi Supraja)

Published on Mar 25, 2025 05:45 pm IST

Santanu Bhattacharya: “When I write, I don’t think of outcomes”

Author Santanu Bhattacharya (Behrin Ismailov)

Published on Mar 24, 2025 05:33 pm IST

Review: The Remains of the Body by Saikat Majumdar

A copperplate engraving of Kama or Manmatha, the god of erotic love, desire, pleasure and beauty, dated 1806. (Florilegius/Universal Images Gro)

Published on Mar 22, 2025 05:14 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a look at the Indian Railways, a memoir that’s also an account of important events in the country from Independence to the present, and a selection from the work of an Indian art critic (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Mar 22, 2025 05:08 am IST

Jonathan Haidt: ‘People born after 1995 are in bad mental health’

Author Jonathan Haidt (Courtesy the publisher)

Published on Mar 22, 2025 05:06 am IST

Review: Tripping Down The Ganga by Siddharth Kapila

At Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 10:55 pm IST

Masood Hussain: “Art is not just about what is created; it is about resilience”

Artist Masood Hussain (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Mar 21, 2025 02:59 pm IST

Iowa Residency: End of the road?

Iowa university in the fall (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 20, 2025 08:51 pm IST

Book Review: I Bet You'd Look Good In A Coffin is predictable yet nostalgic

The cover of I Bet You'd Look Good In A Coffin by Katy Brent(Photo: Instagram/maplescozylife)

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Published on Mar 20, 2025 06:01 pm IST

Review: Aunties of Vasant Kunj by Anuradha Marwah

DDA flats in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. (S.Burmaula / Hindustan Times)

Updated on Mar 20, 2025 12:13 pm IST

Report: Kokrajhar Literature Festival

Miwa SAkuraki and Rajat Chaudhuri at the Kokrajhar Literature Festival (Chittajit Mitra)

Published on Mar 19, 2025 08:27 pm IST

Deepa Bhasthi: “I am instinctive as a translator”

Translator Deepa Bhasthi (Penguin Random House India)

Published on Mar 18, 2025 05:36 pm IST

Banu Mushtaq: “My feminism seeps into the language that I use

Author Banu Mushtaq (Courtesy Penguin Random House India)

Updated on May 21, 2025 06:28 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an omnibus edition mountaineering books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel, and a collection of perceptive short stories (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Mar 14, 2025 07:31 pm IST

Nirmala Lakshman: “We definitely are more accepting of people from outside”

Nirmala Lakshman, author, The Tamils; A Portrait of a Community (Courtesy Aleph)

Published on Mar 14, 2025 07:29 pm IST

Review: Night in Delhi by Ranbir Sidhu

Drawing the desperate and the ruthless: Paharganj in New Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

Published on Mar 14, 2025 07:19 pm IST

Review: The Essential Ghalib by Anisur Rahman

Mirza Ghalib (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Mar 14, 2025 07:16 pm IST

Report: Ami Arts Festival

Participants at the workshop on Exploring Emotions with Art Therapy (Courtesy Ami Arts Festival)

Published on Mar 13, 2025 12:59 pm IST

Of great poets and cursed books

A portrait of Mir Taqi Mir (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Mar 12, 2025 10:41 pm IST

Devashish Makhija: “I don’t hold back at all”

Filmmaker and poet Devashish Makhija (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Mar 11, 2025 10:43 pm IST

Review: ‘Swallowing The Sun’ by Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri

Primary school teachers in Bombay participating in a march on 3 April 1946. (HT Photo)

Published on Mar 11, 2025 04:20 pm IST

Jay Lemery: “Treating climate medicine as if it were a scam is horrible”

Dr Jay Lemery, ER specialist, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and co-author, ‘Enviromedics’ at JLF 2025 (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Mar 10, 2025 04:18 pm IST

Review: The Rainbow Runners byDhrubajyoti Borah

The Brahmaputra at Guwahati (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 07, 2025 10:50 pm IST

Ira Mathur: “The dead do not leave us”

Author Ira Mathur (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Mar 07, 2025 10:48 pm IST

Review: Learning From Silence by Pico Iyer

The Big Sur seen from the New Camaldoli Hermitage. (Shutterstock)

Published on Mar 07, 2025 10:48 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an account of Indian sepoys in World War 1, a book on Indian modernity seen from the location of men in the home, and a crime thriller. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Mar 07, 2025 10:48 pm IST

Book Review: The Persians portrays Iran's rich history with dense prose

Cover of the book The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji

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Published on Mar 07, 2025 02:25 pm IST

Prakrit poetry for posterity

Paintings in the Ajanta caves dating to the Satavahana period (Vidya Subramanian / Hindustan Times)

Published on Mar 07, 2025 11:01 am IST

Emily Dickinson at work at home

Daguerreotype of Emily Dickenson dated around 1847. (Amherst College Archives & Special Collections)

Published on Mar 06, 2025 03:35 pm IST

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