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    A requiem for Kolkata’s trams

    books
    Published on Dec 19, 2024 07:37 IST
    Soumitra Chatterjee on a tram in Apur Sansar (1959). (Film still)

    Page to screen: The highs and lows of 2024

    “Netflix turning Gabriel García Márquez’s ravishing opus One Hundred Years of Solitude into ravishing TV this December bookended a demonstrably fine year for literary adaptations.” (Netflix)
    books
    Updated on Dec 18, 2024 12:48 IST

    William Dalrymple: “This is a book about the diffusion of Indian ideas”

    Author William Dalrymple (Debbie Mitra Singh/HT Photo)
    books
    Published on Dec 17, 2024 06:47 IST

    Review: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

    Playground of the super rich: A view of Marigot Bay in St Lucia (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Dec 16, 2024 08:02 IST

    Review: Vampire by Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai

    Violence lurking in the shadows (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:52 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes one on AI and its implications for law, stories from a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh, and an actor-director’s memoir (Akash Shrivastav)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:40 IST

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

    Mark Haddon (Charles Moriarty/Penguin Random House)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:38 IST

    Review: The Last Time I Saw You by Akhil Katyal

    On the nature of love and mortality. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:34 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 13, 2024 17:29 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 12, 2024 16:39 IST

    Report: Prithvi Theatre Festival 2024

    A performance of Runaway Brides (Prithvi Theatre)
    books
    Published on Dec 12, 2024 11:22 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 11, 2024 14:37 IST

    Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih: “I believe in literary ambidextrousness”

    Poet and author Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Updated on Dec 10, 2024 14:36 IST

    Of bookish music

    Ben Please and Beth Porter of The Bookshop Band (The Bookshop Band)
    books
    Published on Dec 9, 2024 05:27 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 8, 2024 04:55 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 7, 2024 24:00 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 6, 2024 23:56 IST

    Review: Dalithan by KK Kochu

    Field workers in Palakkad, Kerala. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Dec 6, 2024 23:46 IST

    Review: The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

    Avalokiteswara Padmapani in the Ajanta caves. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Dec 6, 2024 23:34 IST

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

    Scary stories (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Dec 6, 2024 08:38 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 5, 2024 09:42 IST

    Report: Bhutan Innovation Forum

    The audience at the Bhutan Innovation Forum (Courtesy Bhutan Innovation Forum)
    books
    Updated on Dec 4, 2024 13:26 IST

    Futuristic technology from the ancient past

    A speculative image of a UFO hovering over the earth. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Dec 3, 2024 15:44 IST

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

    Author Garth Greenwell (Courtesy www.garthgreenwell.com)
    books
    Published on Dec 2, 2024 13:36 IST

    Book Box: The Secrets of Winter Reading

    HT photo
    books
    Published on Nov 30, 2024 04:53 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)
    books
    Published on Nov 29, 2024 15:46 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)
    books
    Published on Nov 29, 2024 15:29 IST

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

    Author Lavanya Lakshminarayanan (Courtesy the publisher)
    books
    Updated on Nov 29, 2024 15:28 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)
    books
    Published on Nov 29, 2024 15:27 IST

    Review: Islands in Flux; The Andaman and Nicobar Story

    The Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Nov 29, 2024 15:24 IST
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