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How to protect an endangered language

The death of languages often follows the same pattern. Conquest and colonisation lead to poverty, and sometimes an internalised shame. (Pixabay)
Published on Jun 29, 2024 08:00 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on wellness, a volume on the grief and betrayal that Sikh women experienced in 1984, and another on Indian-Chinese relationships (HT Team)
Published on Jun 28, 2024 09:53 pm IST

André Aciman – “Time is not always our friend”

Andre Aciman (Courtesy the publisher)
Published on Jun 28, 2024 09:51 pm IST

Review: Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie

A street in Accra, Ghana. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Jun 28, 2024 05:50 pm IST

To Lunuganga – architecture as autobiography

Located on the banks of the Dedduwa lake, Lunuganga turned 75 last year. (© Geoffrey Bawa and Lunuganga Trusts)
Published on Jun 27, 2024 08:48 pm IST

Review: How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

A Rastafarian in Grenada(Shutterstock)
Published on Jun 27, 2024 06:36 pm IST

Book Box | Three unexpected ways to introduce yourself

Sonya Dutta Choudhury(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Jun 23, 2024 12:37 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on how a fringe movement changed investing, a narrative about growing up in a coal-mining town in India, and a thriller about the return of a mother who disappears and is presumed dead. (HT Team)
Published on Jun 21, 2024 10:25 pm IST

Interview: Vincent Brown, Author, Tacky’s Revolt

Author Vincent Brown (Jaipur Literature Festival)
Published on Jun 21, 2024 10:23 pm IST

Review: Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan

Civilians being displaced from parts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts after the Sri Lankan army’s military offensive in January 2009. (Courtesy Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation)
Published on Jun 21, 2024 10:23 pm IST

Shōgun: Lost and found in translation

A scene from Shogun (Courtesy FX)
Published on Jun 21, 2024 03:39 pm IST

Review: Loot by Tania James

Portrait of Tipu Sultan by an anonymous Indian artist in Mysore, ca. 1790–1800. (Fowler&fowler/ Wikimedia Commons)
Published on Jun 20, 2024 04:45 pm IST

Must-reads for Pride Month

The Pride Parade in Bengaluru in 2017 (HT Photo)
Published on Jun 18, 2024 05:51 pm IST

KG Subramanyan at 100

Artist KG Subramanyan (1924-2016) (HT Photo)
Published on Jun 18, 2024 12:08 pm IST

Alex Michaelides: “Novels are about expansion”

Author Alex Michaelides (Wolf Marloh (USE))
Updated on Jun 15, 2024 09:02 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of great reads includes a book on five famous eateries, a gripping locked room murder mystery, and a book on the Nagarwala scandal of the Indira Gandhi era. (HT Team)
Updated on Jun 15, 2024 09:00 am IST

Review: Ma is Scared by Anjali Kajal

The quiet humiliations of the classroom. Anjali Kajal’s stories highlight discrimination in places of education (representative picture only). (HT Photo)
Updated on Jun 15, 2024 08:52 am IST

Essay: A queer rite of passage

People out in Lodhi Gardens in New Delhi. “While the cruising scenes before the era of dating apps like PlanetRomeo and Grindr have been documented, digital disruption has added another layer to cruising.” (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jun 14, 2024 10:35 am IST
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