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Sidharth Jain - “Everyone in India loves storytelling”

Published on Apr 15, 2024 09:03 pm IST

Sidharth Jain, head, The Story Ink and House of Talkies (Suhit Bombaywala)

Book Box | Unravelling the art of translation at London’s oldest bookstore

Translators Donald Rayfield, Georgia de Chamberet & Dennis Duncan ( L to R) at Hatchards Piccadilly, London(Author)

Published on Apr 13, 2024 08:03 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a Japanese novel about the power and delight of taboo, a book that examines the ethical costs of attempting to live forever, and essays about the art and life of FN Souza (HT Team)

Updated on Apr 13, 2024 05:34 am IST

Perry Garfinkel – “India needs a moral compass like Gandhi now more than ever”

Author Perry Garfinkel (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Apr 13, 2024 05:26 am IST

Review: Vagabond Princess by Ruby Lal

Gulbadan Begum smoking a hukkah. (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Apr 13, 2024 05:24 am IST

Review: From Phansi Yard by Sudha Bharadwaj

Prison life; notes from inside (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 13, 2024 10:53 am IST

A Suitable Boy turns 31

Vikram Seth with Khushwant Singh in New Delhi on 27 February 1993. (Dinesh Kumar/HT Photo)

Published on Apr 12, 2024 09:26 pm IST

Motorcycle diaries: On riding in the Garo Hills

The Wangala dance at Condengre village in West Garo Hills (Royal Enfield Social Mission)

Published on Apr 11, 2024 09:26 pm IST

Report: Sacred Spirit Festival 2024

The Sufi whirling dance of the Nile (Sacred Spirit Festival)

Updated on Apr 11, 2024 08:22 pm IST

Essay: On the spectacle of cancel culture

A scene from Sick of Myself (Film still)

Published on Apr 09, 2024 08:54 pm IST

Indian sci-fi: weird and wonderful

Indian Science fiction: Opening doors to worlds that are both new and familiar. (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 09, 2024 04:57 pm IST

Katherine M Hedeen - “Raul’s poetics challenge US-centric notions of queerness”

Essayist and translator of poetry, Katherine M Hedeen (Mumbai Poetry Festival 2024)

Updated on Apr 08, 2024 08:57 pm IST

Book Box | Meet Priya Narendra: The writer who loves badly behaved women

Priya Narendra(picture courtesy Priya Narendra)

Updated on Apr 06, 2024 07:58 pm IST

Report: Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2024

Bestselling author Anuja Chauhan, whose latest novel The Fast and the Dead is a murder mystery set on Karwa Chauth night. (AKLF2024)

Published on Apr 05, 2024 09:26 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book of essays on the construction of identities within Indian contexts, a book on ganja, and a posthumous novel that’s a meditation on freedom and love (HT Team)

Published on Apr 05, 2024 09:19 pm IST

Shyam Selvadurai – “Writing is a strange process”

Author Shyam Selvadurai (George Pimentel)

Published on Apr 05, 2024 09:18 pm IST

Review: City on Fire; A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan

Far from Upar Kot though it’s in the same city: A view of Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh. (Universal Images Group via Getty)

Updated on Apr 05, 2024 09:18 pm IST

Review: The Musical Maverick; The Authorized Biography Of Shankar Mahadevan by Ashis Ghatak

Shankar Mahadevan (centre) rehearing for Symphony Orchestra of India’s Spring season 2020 with Zane Dalal, Zakir Hussain, Hariharan and Kelley O’Connor at NCPA, Nariman Point, Mumbai on February 24 2020. (Aalok Soni/HT PHOTO)

Published on Apr 05, 2024 09:17 pm IST

Review: Understanding Islam; Its Spirit and Values by Abad Ahmad

Prayers at the Great Mosque of Mecca (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 04, 2024 08:29 pm IST

Back to the future: Marriage and live-in relationships in ancient India

Raja Ravi Varma’s painting of King Dushyanta proposing marriage to Shakuntala. The story of Dushyant and Shakuntala is a tale of the pitfalls of the gandharva vivaha. (Wellcome Library, London/Wikimedia commons)

Updated on Apr 03, 2024 08:33 pm IST

Poacher; a call to action

A herd of wild Indian elephants at Corbett National Park (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 02, 2024 08:38 pm IST

Review: The Bard and his Sister-in-Law by Mallika Sengupta

Tales of Jorasanko: A vintage picture of Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral home. (HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 02, 2024 03:15 pm IST

Report: The Kolkata Literary Meet 2024

Jerry Pinto and Shanta Gokhale sharing their translations of the poetry of Tukaram

Published on Apr 02, 2024 01:01 am IST

Kiran Millwood Hargrave – “Reading develops bravery and cultivates empathy”

Poet, playwright and novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Apr 01, 2024 09:16 pm IST

Book Box | Goodbye Daniel Kahneman, whose life reads like a thriller

The Undoing Project

Published on Mar 31, 2024 11:33 pm IST

Report: The Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival, 2024

Chillara Samaram, a play by the Little Earth School of Theatre, Kerala. (The Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival, 2024)

Published on Mar 29, 2024 09:21 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on the dilemma facing the Indian liberal, another that retells fairy tales to include diverse bodies and minds, and a novel that recreates the love story of Mahmud of Ghazni and his Turkish slave Ayaz and sets it in contemporary India. (HT Team)

Published on Mar 29, 2024 07:18 pm IST

Charlotte Ager – “Self-doubt can completely freeze you up”

Illustrator Charlotte Ager (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Mar 29, 2024 07:16 pm IST

Review: Never Never Land byNamita Gokhale

Homes in Kumaon, Uttarakhand. (Rajeev Sachdeva/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Published on Mar 29, 2024 07:15 pm IST

Review: India in the Second World War: An Emotional History by Diya Gupta

The Rimini Gurkha War Cemetery and the Second World War Indian Forces Memorial erected in Italy to officers and men of the Indian Army. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 29, 2024 07:12 pm IST

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