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Review: In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays by Indrajit Hazra

Updated on Aug 23, 2024 09:44 pm IST

The good life: lazing on a beach. (Shutterstock)

Review: Broken Promises by Mrityunjay Sharma

Policemen carrying away a protestor in Bihar on 31 January 1994. (HT PHOTO)

Published on Aug 23, 2024 09:42 pm IST

Talking Enid Blyton and more with the new Famous Five author

Author Sufiya Ahmed (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Aug 23, 2024 07:02 pm IST

Discovering a calligraphic beauty

A 282-page manuscript compiled in 1817, that covers a variety of medieval monuments, was recently discovered in the British Museum, London.

Published on Aug 22, 2024 09:06 pm IST

Book to Screen: Eileen – Of desperation, deviance and deception

Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie in ‘Eileen’. (Film still)

Published on Aug 21, 2024 09:07 pm IST

A gendered telling of Partition

Refugees leaving New Delhi for Pakistan in 1947. (HT Archive)

Published on Aug 20, 2024 06:26 pm IST

Review: ‘Held’ by Anne Michaels

British soldiers in a trench in World War 1. (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 20, 2024 02:25 pm IST

Roopa Pai – “Yoga looks at holistic well-being, not just fitness”

Author Roopa Pai (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Aug 19, 2024 06:32 pm IST

Book Box | The Reading India Project

Holiday books(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)

Published on Aug 17, 2024 09:06 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes essays on identity in Northeast India, a tribute to a poet and author, and the writings of Viktor Frankl (HT Team)

Updated on Aug 16, 2024 10:37 pm IST

Viet Thanh Nguyen — “We choose to remember and forget things ”

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen (Courtesy https://vietnguyen.info/)

Published on Aug 16, 2024 10:36 pm IST

Review: Kamal Haasan – A Cinematic Journey by K Hariharan

Sreedevi and Kamal Haasan in Sadma (1983) (HT Photo)

Published on Aug 16, 2024 10:35 pm IST

Review: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata

Immersed: Reading an Urdu newspaper in Kolkata (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 16, 2024 10:34 pm IST

Review: Blackouts by Justin Torres

“The concept of erasure uniquely applies to queer people, for LGBTQIA+ lives have forever been stripped of their histories, making it difficult for them to imagine possibilities, futures.” (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 16, 2024 09:30 pm IST

Amitav Ghosh - “We are living through an epochal geopolitical transition”

Author Amitav Ghosh (Courtesy the publisher)

Published on Aug 15, 2024 09:09 pm IST

Review: A new translation of Portrait of Love by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala

“The layered commentary on different aspects of the social life of rural India makes Nirala who he is.” (HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 15, 2024 06:53 pm IST

A moment for f-Annes and misfits everywhere

A 19th century farmhouse and literary landmark in Cavendish, PEI, Canada, which served as the setting for Anne of Green Gables. (Rasvan/Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 14, 2024 09:16 pm IST

Shubha Mudgal – “Kumar Gandharvji illustrates that tradition is open to change”

Shubha Mudgal in performance at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur during the Sacred Spirit festival. (Photo courtesy: Mehrangarh Museum Trust)

Published on Aug 13, 2024 09:23 pm IST

The essential Edinburgh reading list

Book enthusiasts at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (Visit Scotland)

Updated on Aug 12, 2024 09:32 pm IST

The high-octane power of mythmaking

Dr Dementus and his biker gang in ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’. (Film still)

Published on Aug 12, 2024 09:31 pm IST

Book Box | Eight life-changing books to read in your twenties and beyond

The Artist’s Way(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )

Published on Aug 11, 2024 12:32 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of stories, a history of Pakistan, and a volume on the legal and economic history of India (HT Team)

Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:12 pm IST

Monika Halan “Don’t get taken in by get-rich-quick schemes”

Monika Halan, author, Let’s Talk Legacy. (Courtesy the publisher)

Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:11 pm IST

Review: The Keeper of Desolation by Chandan Pandey

The author and the typist in the picture share a funereal attitude towards corporate life. ((Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images))

Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:10 pm IST

Review: James by Percival Everett

A young slave during the US Civil War. (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:09 pm IST

This Book Lovers Day, explore 7 awesome libraries from around the world

7 world-famous libraries every book lover should visit before they die(Instagram )

Published on Aug 09, 2024 04:07 pm IST

Seen and unseen: Disabled characters lost in cinema

Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan in Saajan (1991). “Even though, at the surface, disability seems to be only a plot tool, Saajan somehow manages to resonate with the romantic universe of disabled people.” (Film still)

Published on Aug 08, 2024 06:41 pm IST

Essay: Love at first bite

“Over the years, I have gotten so used to the kutroo-kutroo of the brown-headed barbet (Psilopogon zeylanicus) that I have stopped noticing it. You can hear it in most areas of Delhi, especially from January to June, which is the bird’s courtship and nesting season.” (Prerna Jain)

Published on Aug 08, 2024 06:37 pm IST

Review: Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

The quiet intimacy of growing up together. (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 08, 2024 03:56 pm IST

Review: This Land We Call Home by Nusrat F Jafri

Nehru, Gandhi and Patel at a meeting in 1946. In her narrative memoir, Nusrat F Jafri blends her family’s history with considerable research into politics, history and culture to present a nuanced picture of a complex nation. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Aug 07, 2024 08:05 pm IST

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