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HT Picks; New Reads

Updated on May 04, 2024 01:50 pm IST

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a selection of some of the most renowned episodes of Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas, a collection of hyper-real stories by leading Bengali writer Mashiul Alam, and a series of conversations on the psychology of war and peace. (HT Team)

John Boyne – “Simplicity can be really wonderful”

Author John Boyne (Kolkata Literary Meet 2024)

Published on May 03, 2024 09:55 pm IST

Review: Chronicle of an Hour and a Half by Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari

Fits of rage and their aftermath. (Shutterstock)

Published on May 03, 2024 09:54 pm IST

Review: Knife by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait on April 18, 2024, in New York. (Andres Kudacki/AP Photo)

Updated on May 04, 2024 12:35 pm IST

Review: AgniKaal by Yugal Joshi

Jim Sarbh as Malik Kafur in Padmaavat (2018). (Film still)

Updated on May 03, 2024 09:19 pm IST

The man who invented the medical mystery genre

A patient in coma (Shutterstock)

Published on May 03, 2024 09:18 pm IST

Review: The Details by Ia Genberg

“Readers get to know the narrator in bits and pieces; her gaze is never impersonal and through her very gentle portrayal of others, we understand her.” (Shutterstock)

Updated on May 02, 2024 07:53 pm IST

The Zone of Interest: The Holocaust film to end all Holocaust films

A scene from The Zone of Interest (A24)

Published on May 01, 2024 08:47 pm IST

Interview: Satish Arora, co-author, Sweets and Bitters

Chef Satish Arora in a picture dated 28 April 2008, when he was director, food production, at TAJSATS Air Catering Limited. (HT Photo by Anand Shinde)

Published on Apr 30, 2024 09:29 pm IST

Book Box | Why we must read Knife by Salman Rushdie

Knife by Salman Rushdie(Author)

Published on Apr 28, 2024 12:09 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a memoir about multicultural identities and nation building, a book from a best selling author that looks at the pros and cons of new weight loss drugs, and a volume that presents the poetry and painting of British Asian artist Nandita Chaudhuri. (HT Team)

Updated on Apr 27, 2024 05:08 am IST

Devika Rege, author, Quarterlife – “I write to make sense of the world ”

Author Devika Rege (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Apr 27, 2024 11:52 am IST

Review: Journeying with India; Memoirs of a Civil Servant by YN Varma

As YN Varma’s memoir suggests, Indian and British officers working together in colonial institutions weren’t always at ease with one another. But that's not evident in photographs like this one of Indian Railways officers at the headquarters of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway in Bombay in 1930. (SSPL via Getty Images)

Updated on Apr 27, 2024 05:04 am IST

Review: Echoes from Forgotten Mountains by Jamyang Norbu

A view of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 27, 2024 05:00 am IST

Review: Faking It; Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh

According to Walsh, “It won’t be robots putting humans out of work, but humans who use AI taking over the jobs of humans who don’t.” (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 26, 2024 07:06 pm IST

Exploring Oxford’s literary past and present

The city of dreaming spires: A view of Oxford (Photo courtesy Experience Oxfordshire)

Updated on Apr 25, 2024 09:18 pm IST

Report: Remembering Veenapani Festival (RVF), 2024

Yuki Elias in The Far Post, a Lepcha play that explores the afterlife. (Courtesy Adishakti Theatre)

Updated on Apr 25, 2024 03:14 pm IST

Review: Conversations with Aurangzeb by Charu Nivedita

Aurangzeb holds court, as painted by (perhaps) Bichitr. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Apr 24, 2024 01:29 pm IST

Dune: Blind faith is the mind-killer

Sandworms in a scene from Dune: Part Two. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

Published on Apr 23, 2024 09:13 pm IST

Merve Emre – “Things should be read in as many different ways as possible”

Merve Emre during a session at JLF 2024 (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Apr 22, 2024 09:17 pm IST

Bakeries, bookstores, and beat poetry: A literary odyssey through San Francisco

City Lights Books, San Francisco(Author)

Published on Apr 21, 2024 12:23 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of stories that consider the consequences of brief encounters, a book on the battles of Imphal and Kohima, and a gentle new tale from a favourite storyteller. (HT Team)

Published on Apr 19, 2024 09:58 pm IST

Yuvan Aves, author, Intertidal – “Sometimes I write to think”

Author Yuvan Aves (Courtesy Bloomsbury)

Updated on Apr 19, 2024 09:56 pm IST

Review: In Search of Answers; A Memoir by K Saradamoni

K Saradamoni in front of the Planning Commission in the mid-1950s. (Courtesy Tulika Books)

Updated on Apr 20, 2024 05:30 pm IST

Review: The Rajiv I Knew by Mani Shankar Aiyar

Rajiv Gandhi and Mani Shankar Aiyar in the 1980s. (Courtesy Juggernaut)

Published on Apr 19, 2024 09:53 pm IST

Breaking the mould

All that glitters: Vinod Daroz’s work. (Immersive Infitities)

Published on Apr 19, 2024 09:36 pm IST

An ode to the chinaberry

A red-whiskered bulbul intent on eating chinaberries (Prerna Jain)

Published on Apr 19, 2024 03:39 pm IST

Review: A Way Within; Seven Years in a Himalayan Ashram by Madhu Tandan

An ashram in the Himalayas (representative picture) (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 18, 2024 05:06 pm IST

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

Boris Pasternak on a Russian postage stamp from 2019. (Mirt Alexander /Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 17, 2024 09:00 pm IST

Report: The Bangalore International Film Festival 2024

Packed venues at the BIFF reaffirmed the power of cinema (Bangalore International Film Festival)

Published on Apr 16, 2024 09:18 pm IST

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