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Review: Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Updated on Nov 05, 2024 07:01 pm IST

The Long Island home of someone “extraordinarily, absurdly, kidnappably rich” much like the Fletchers. (Audley C Bullock/Wirestock Creators - stock.adobe.com)

Emlyn Marimutu – “Music is a spiritual force. It is the essence of life”

Emlyn Marimutu at the Rajasthan International Folk Festival held from October 16 to 20 at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur (Jodhpur RIFF/OIJO)

Published on Nov 04, 2024 05:42 pm IST

Book Box | Discovering Kaikeyi, the woman behind the villain

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)

Published on Nov 02, 2024 03:35 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a volume on industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata’s life, a translation of a Mughal recipe book, and a look at the dramatic general elections of 2024. (Akash Srivastav)

Published on Nov 01, 2024 09:56 pm IST

Review: The Homeland’s an Ocean by Mir Taqi Mir, translated by Ranjit Hoskote

Asad ud Daula, Nawab of Awadh, in whose court Mir spent some of his last years. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Nov 01, 2024 09:55 pm IST

V Geetha: “India is a land of many times”

V Geetha (Courtsesy the subject)

Published on Nov 01, 2024 09:53 pm IST

Review: The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

Amy Tan, Udaipur (Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi)

Published on Nov 01, 2024 09:46 pm IST

Bath’s best kept secret: Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights

The facade of the bookstore in Bath (Teja Lele)

Updated on Nov 01, 2024 04:09 pm IST

Patel and Nehru: Common purpose; contrasting pathways

A picture of Sardar Patel just before he took charge of the Home Department. (HT Photo)

Published on Oct 30, 2024 07:38 pm IST

Review: On the Couch; Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, edited by Andrew Blauner

Sigmund Freud (Max Halberstadt/ Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Oct 30, 2024 05:02 am IST

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche: “Mindfulness as a concept has been hijacked”

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (left) in conversation with BBC news presenter Samantha Simmonds and Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard at the Bhutan Innovation Forum. (Courtesy Bhutan Innovation Forum)

Published on Oct 29, 2024 11:18 am IST

Beyond the Hunt: The Maneater of Udaipur

Two leopards near a village in Haryana. (HT Photo)

Published on Oct 28, 2024 07:44 pm IST

Book Box | The art of brand storytelling with Suta Sarees

The author and Taniya Biswas at a session with students(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)

Published on Oct 26, 2024 08:10 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on China’s faltering Belt and Road Initiative, a volume on Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and the first ever Ramayana for babies. (Akash P Shrivastav)

Published on Oct 25, 2024 10:51 pm IST

Anand Teltumbde – “Ambedkar challenged Gandhi’s Mahatmahood”

Author Anand Teltumbde (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 25, 2024 10:50 pm IST

Review: Within Reason bySandro Galea

People protesting against the vaccine mandate in New York in 2021. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 25, 2024 10:46 pm IST

Review: The Many Lives of Syeda X by Neha Dixit

The kind of jobs that Syeda X does: Women making handmade sanitary napkins at a workshop in New Delhi. (S Burmula)

Updated on Oct 25, 2024 10:44 pm IST

No medicine for melancholy

A scene from The Devil’s Bath (Film still)

Published on Oct 25, 2024 09:04 pm IST

Roald Dahl was a genius—and a shocking bigot

Roald Dahl1

Published on Oct 25, 2024 08:00 am IST

Review: The Vegetarian by Han Kang

A street in downtown Seoul. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 24, 2024 05:58 pm IST

Review: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The waterfront of a town in Maine, USA. (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 24, 2024 01:58 pm IST

What the row over Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book reveals about free speech

This cover image released by One World shows

Published on Oct 24, 2024 08:00 am IST

An earful of Franz Kafka

‘I, Josef’, a ‘headphone theatre’ performance by Kaivalya Plays (Arunima Mazumdar)

Updated on Oct 23, 2024 07:31 pm IST

Navtej Sarna: “There is always a certain bias in the telling of history”

Author Navtej Sarna (Courtesy the Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Oct 23, 2024 04:50 pm IST

“Hindutva is now a significant feature of diasporic identity”

Author Edward TG Anderson (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 21, 2024 08:27 pm IST

Author Trisha Das: Indian romcoms have been somewhat boxed in

Author Trisha Das

Published on Oct 21, 2024 02:27 pm IST

Tunnel vision: How Elif Shafak helps to see the world differently

There are Rivers in the Sky(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)

Published on Oct 19, 2024 07:13 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book about a 54-year-old scandal that shook Pakistan, a volume about India’s linguistic dynamism, and a study of a South Asian terrorist group. (HT Team)

Published on Oct 18, 2024 08:13 pm IST

Suchitra Ramachandran – “Nobility and evil don’t come in segregated packs”

Translator Suchitra Ramachandran (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Oct 18, 2024 08:11 pm IST

Review: She & I by Imayam, translated by D Venkataramanan

A street in a small town in Tamil Nadu (Shutterstock)

Published on Oct 18, 2024 08:09 pm IST

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