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Mark Haddon: “Death is the engine that sits at the centre of all fiction”

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:08 am IST

Mark Haddon (Charles Moriarty/Penguin Random House)

Review: The Last Time I Saw You by Akhil Katyal

On the nature of love and mortality. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:04 am IST

Review: Ratan Tata: A Life by Thomas Mathew

Ratan Tata (centre) with NA Soonawala (l) and B Muthuraman in a picture dated 31 January 2007. (Manoj Patil/HT Photo)

Published on Dec 13, 2024 10:59 pm IST

Review: Sanatan by Sharankumar Limbale

Throughout the novel, the untouchable’s labouring body is rendered as a site of brutal violence. (Ragul Krishnan/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Dec 12, 2024 10:09 pm IST

Report: Prithvi Theatre Festival 2024

A performance of Runaway Brides (Prithvi Theatre)

Published on Dec 12, 2024 04:52 pm IST

Seeing enchantment in the everyday: a letter to Arun Kolatkar

Arun Kolatkar (1932-2004) photographed by Madhu Kapparath at Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, late 1990s (Madhu Kapparath)

Published on Dec 11, 2024 08:07 pm IST

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih: “I believe in literary ambidextrousness”

Poet and author Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 10, 2024 08:06 pm IST

Of bookish music

Ben Please and Beth Porter of The Bookshop Band (The Bookshop Band)

Published on Dec 09, 2024 10:57 am IST

Rainbow Lit Fest: Authors, artistes assemble in Delhi for queer, inclusive fest

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta, actor-author Sandhya Mridul, and filmmaker Faraz Arif Ansari will be at the fest in its third edition.

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Dec 08, 2024 10:25 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an intimate and objective picture of Cuba, a publisher-editor’s account of losing himself to find Kabir, and an eminent ornithologist’s memoir. (Akash Shrivastav)

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:30 am IST

Inside India’s ‘secret Cold War’

Paul McGarr, author, ‘Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States and India’s Secret Cold War’ (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:26 am IST

Review: Dalithan by KK Kochu

Field workers in Palakkad, Kerala. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:16 am IST

Review: The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

Avalokiteswara Padmapani in the Ajanta caves. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:04 am IST

Review: Out There Screaming; An Anthology of New Black Horror

Scary stories (Shutterstock)

Published on Dec 06, 2024 02:08 pm IST

Review: A Slight Angle by Ruth Vanita

Hindus and Muslims, displaying the flags of both the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, collecting clothes to be later burnt as a part of the Non-cooperation movement of Mohandas Gandhi in 1922. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Dec 05, 2024 03:12 pm IST

Report: Bhutan Innovation Forum

The audience at the Bhutan Innovation Forum (Courtesy Bhutan Innovation Forum)

Updated on Dec 04, 2024 06:56 pm IST

Futuristic technology from the ancient past

A speculative image of a UFO hovering over the earth. (Shutterstock)

Published on Dec 03, 2024 09:14 pm IST

Garth Greenwell: “The book is structured like nesting dolls of brokenness”

Author Garth Greenwell (Courtesy www.garthgreenwell.com)

Published on Dec 02, 2024 07:06 pm IST

Book Box: The Secrets of Winter Reading

HT photo

Published on Nov 30, 2024 10:23 am IST

Looking back at MAMI 2024

“When the organisers came together to pick the opening film, the choice must have been a no-brainer. Payal Kapadia’s Cannes-championed ‘All We Imagine as Light’ is a luminous ode to Mumbai and all the migrants who make up the metropolis.” (Film still)

Published on Nov 29, 2024 09:16 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an entertaining study of cannabis in India, a volume about the reading culture of north India in the post Independence period, and an illustrated set of Sanskrit shlokas for children. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Nov 29, 2024 08:59 pm IST

Lavanya Lakshminarayan: “Sci-fi is a reflection of what makes us human”

Author Lavanya Lakshminarayanan (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 08:58 pm IST

Review: Go Wild edited by Bijal Vachharajani

One of the pieces featured in the book, Ranjit Lal’s For Queen And Colony, follows two ants, Mishri and Meethi Boli, as they try to win over the Queen of the colony, ‘Rani Sahiba’, by defeating their nemesis, Ms Khatri Chabuk. Above, a magnified photograph of ants. (Shutterstock)

Published on Nov 29, 2024 08:57 pm IST

Review: Islands in Flux; The Andaman and Nicobar Story

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Shutterstock)

Published on Nov 29, 2024 08:54 pm IST

Review: The Black Orphan by S Hussain Zaidi

Part of a damaged helicopter seen lying near the compound after US Navy SEAL commandos killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011. The back story of the protagonist in The Black Orphan includes his secret involvement in the operation. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 28, 2024 06:27 pm IST

Review: Chikkamma Tours (Pvt) Ltd by Unmana

Church Street in Bengaluru. “One of the strongest aspects of Unmana’s writing is its sense of place. It is impossible to not recognise the roads and bylanes of Bengaluru as you read the book. From Jayanagar to Koramangala, Indiranagar to Church Street, the book consciously evokes actual spaces without relying on too much expository prose.” (Hemant Mishra/Mint)

Published on Nov 27, 2024 09:46 pm IST

Maharaja Gaj Singh II: “Folk musicians are custodians of heritage”

Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Marwar-Jodphur. (Jodhpur RIFF/OIJO)

Updated on Nov 27, 2024 06:49 pm IST

Review: Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

A man holding a sign that says, “We Are The 99%” at an Occupy Wall Street protest. Rumaan Alam’s ‘Entitlement’ is set in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Nov 25, 2024 05:10 pm IST

Book Box: Are You in a Reading Race?

A view of a bookstore. (HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 23, 2024 10:24 am IST

Review: My World Without Jehan by Liana Mistry

‘My World Without Jehan’ is the story of the poignant childhood of a troubled boy whose mental turmoil goes unheeded. (fotoduets - stock.adobe.com)

Published on Nov 22, 2024 08:29 pm IST

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