Books

PAGE 27

Huma Qureshi – “Books can be an escape from the harsh truth of reality”

Updated on Mar 05, 2025 07:31 pm IST

Actor and author Huma Qureshi (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Review: A Touch of Salt by Anita Agnihotri

The salt makers of the Rann of Kutch (Shutterstock)

Published on Mar 05, 2025 07:30 pm IST

Twenty Years and Counting: The Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards

A scene from Chandaa Bedni (Courtesy META)

Published on Mar 05, 2025 06:38 pm IST

Matthieu Ricard: “Reducing all of Buddhism to mindfulness is far too simplistic”

BBC News presenter Samantha Simmonds in conversation with Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard at the Bhutan Innovation Forum in October 2024. (Courtesy Bhutan Innovation Forum)

Published on Mar 03, 2025 10:53 pm IST

Book Box: Why Handwriting (Still) Works

Writing by hand

Updated on Mar 01, 2025 06:31 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an adventure story set in Mughal India, a chronicle of two newspapers, and a book on Carnatic and Hindustani classical music (Sanjeev Kumar)

Published on Feb 28, 2025 11:50 pm IST

Aakriti Mandhwani: “Dissent existed in the middlebrow”

Author Aakriti Mandhwani (Courtesy the publisher)

Published on Feb 28, 2025 11:49 pm IST

JLF 2025: Of Gaza, namaste etiquette and vanishing tents

Sudha Murty and Javed Akhtar (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Feb 28, 2025 11:48 pm IST

Review: Shooting Straight by Arjun Subramaniam

Lt General Rostum K Nanavatty (Rtd) (seated) with his biographer Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam (Rtd). (Courtesy the author)

Published on Feb 28, 2025 11:45 pm IST

Review: Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han

Author Lin Yi-Han. Two months after publishing her debut novel, ‘Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise’, the author died by suicide. The book was inspired by events in her own life. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Feb 28, 2025 10:41 am IST

Handmaid’s Tales

“Abortion wasn’t decriminalised in France until 1975. To 23-year-old Annie Ernaux, securing one hush-hush in a back-alley was an act of self-preservation. It allowed her to continue her education, pursue her dream and become the Nobel Prize-winning author she is today. The 2000 memoir Happening recounted the whole ordeal. In its 2021 film adaptation, writer-director Audrey Diwan keeps the camera close to Anne.” (Film still)

Updated on Feb 27, 2025 02:48 pm IST

Report: Shillong Literary Festival

Malavika Banerjee in conversation with Vikram Seth (Shillong Literature Festival)

Published on Feb 26, 2025 04:46 pm IST

Goa’s Serendipity Arts Festival: pushing the boundaries of art

River Raag curated by Bickram Ghosh at the festival (Serendipity Arts Festival)

Published on Feb 25, 2025 08:00 pm IST

Review: Summer of Then by Rupleena Bose

The novel is set in a Delhi where the river is frothing with waste and the air is thick with smog. (Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times))

Published on Feb 25, 2025 03:19 pm IST

Dan Morrison: “This story came to me as a tangent of a tangent of a tangent ”

Author Dan Morrison (Saurabh Sharma)

Updated on Feb 24, 2025 05:02 pm IST

Book Box | John Vaillant on Fire, Tigers, and Climate Change

John Vaillant

Published on Feb 22, 2025 10:24 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book by the Dalai Lama and Kailash Satyarthi on how globalized compassion can promote peace, another on the great filmmakers of Malayalam cinema in the 1980s and 1990s, and a volume on the life of a legendary Hindustani classical singer (Sanjeev Kumar)

Published on Feb 22, 2025 05:14 am IST

Rollo Romig: “Gauri Lankesh had a talent for connecting people”

Author Rollo Romig (Eva Garmendia)

Published on Feb 22, 2025 05:10 am IST

Report: Kerala Literature Festival 2025

Jenny Erpenbeck, Georgi Gospodoniv and Paul Lynch in conversation with publisher Manasi Subramaniam (Courtesy Kerala Literature Festival )

Published on Feb 22, 2025 05:08 am IST

Mir’s fame and the many frauds in his name

Mir Taqi Mir in 1786 (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Feb 22, 2025 05:04 am IST

A classical-folk jugalbandi in Virginia!

The Gundecha Brothers of the Dagar Gharana performed with Anwar Khan, the award-winning Manganiar folk singer, and his group at the Durga Temple auditorium in Virginia, USA. (Manjari Sinha)

Published on Feb 21, 2025 09:58 am IST

Asako Yuzuki: “It seems ‘Butter’ is more popular in India than in Japan”

Author Asako Yuzuki (Arunima Mazumdar)

Published on Feb 20, 2025 05:30 pm IST

Report: Vedanta Udaipur World Music Festival 2025

Grammy-winning artist from Côte d’Ivoire, Dobet Gnahoré, enthralled audiences with a vibrant celebration of Afropop. (Courtesy Vedanta Udaipur World Music Festival 2025)

Published on Feb 19, 2025 02:13 pm IST

Review: The Lion and the Lily by Ira Mukhoty

Though the British vilified Asaf-ud-Daula, his legacy continues to stand tall even today, perhaps most tangibly in the Bada Imambara of Lucknow. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 19, 2025 01:34 pm IST

Defne Suman: “Your body dictates fiction; fiction dictates your body”

Author Defne Suman (Saurabh Sharma)

Published on Feb 18, 2025 02:10 pm IST

Report: Mahindra Kabira Festival

The fusion band Advaita’s take on Kabir received thunderous applause. (Courtesy Mahindra Kabira Festival)

Updated on Feb 17, 2025 03:41 pm IST

Book Box | Lessons from Frankfurt on the Everything War

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Published on Feb 15, 2025 06:43 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a volume on the lost textile traditions of Bengal, a novel set in Calcutta, and a book about fasting. (Sanjeev Kumar)

Published on Feb 14, 2025 10:58 pm IST

Ijeoma Oluo: “In a better world, I’d tell different tales”

Author Ijeoma Oluo (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Feb 14, 2025 10:57 pm IST

Review: The Living Legend – Ramayana Tales from Far and Nearby Vayu Naidu

Hanuman in the traditional Kecak dance at the Uluwatu temple in Bali, Indonesia. (Shutterstock)

Published on Feb 14, 2025 10:52 pm IST

SHARE

Copy

Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin

25
26
27
...

Home / Books

Copyright © 2026 HT Digital Streams Limited. All Rights Reserved.

Your Subscription Plan

Saved Articles

Subscribe Now!

Follow Us On