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Review: Be Financially Smart by Nita Menezes

Published on Sept 12, 2024 02:54 pm IST
Just one of the many ways to invest: Women shopping for gold. (Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times)

What ‘The Desire for Mischief’ can lead you to do

Writer and social critic VK Nayanar (Courtesy KE Priyamvada)
Updated on Sept 10, 2024 08:34 pm IST

What to read to become a better writer

The first words are the hardest. For many of us writing is a slog. (Pixabay)
Published on Sept 10, 2024 08:00 am IST

Book Box | How to stay calm

Breath by James Nestor(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Sept 07, 2024 08:37 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that focuses on places connected to the freedom movement, a selection of Kiran Nagarkar’s writing, and a novel about migration, belonging and the human connection. (HT Team)
Published on Sept 06, 2024 08:01 pm IST

Report: Drukyul’s Literature and Arts Festival, Bhutan

The Queen Mother of Bhutan, Gyalyum Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck lighting the inaugural lamp with Indian ambassador Sudhakar Dalela and his wife Namrata Dalela. (Courtesy Drukyul’s Literature and Arts Festival)
Published on Sept 06, 2024 07:53 pm IST

Review: For Now it is Night by Hari Krishna Kaul

On the Dal Lake in Kashmir (Shutterstock)
Published on Sept 06, 2024 07:52 pm IST

Freaky, friendly and flamboyant; my friend the grey heron

According to ancient Roman legends, Ardea was an Italian town that was razed to the ground after a battle. The heron is said to have arisen from its ashes. (Prerna Jain)
Published on Sept 05, 2024 08:38 pm IST

Review: Carnival by Sayam Bandyopadhyay

A stately home in West Bengal, the sort of mansion that ‘Carnival’s’ protagonist, Rajaram Deb, inhabited. (Shutterstock)
Published on Sept 04, 2024 05:29 pm IST

Review: Vazhga Vazhga and Other Stories by Imayam

Rural women in Tamil Nadu: Imayam’s stories are about the lives of common people. (CRS PHOTO / Shutterstock)
Updated on Sept 03, 2024 06:28 pm IST

A moving memoir probes the contradictions of modern China

FILE- A pedestrian walks through a footbridge is silhouetted as Chinese and Hong Kong flags are strung to mark the 26th anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China in Hong Kong, on June 27, 2023. Hong Kong’s plan to enact a new national security law, on top of a sweeping legislation that was imposed by Beijing and used to crack down on dissent, is deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the former British colony.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)(AP)
Published on Sept 02, 2024 08:00 am IST

Book Box | How to be alone

The bookshelf in the study(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Aug 31, 2024 06:26 pm IST

On Hindi pop fiction

Nilotpal Mrinal’s debut novel, Dark Horse, which won a Sahitya Akademi award, is set in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)
Published on Aug 30, 2024 09:39 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an appreciation of Delhi’s seasons, a book on the merger of the princely states with India, and volumeon Dalit food history (HT Team)
Published on Aug 30, 2024 09:21 pm IST

Review: A Man of Two Faces by Viet Tanh Nguyen

Images from the Vietnam War at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (Shutterstock)
Published on Aug 29, 2024 10:36 pm IST

Why are so many beloved literary characters orphans?

From Cinderella to Harry Potter, for centuries, the plucky orphan has been a stock character. (Shutterstock)
Published on Aug 29, 2024 04:46 pm IST

Review: Fallout by Salman Masood

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a news conference at his home, May 18, 2023, in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP Photo/KM Chaudary, File)
Published on Aug 27, 2024 08:13 pm IST

Book Box | Why leaders should read science fiction

Ender's Game(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Aug 24, 2024 06:29 pm IST
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