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

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    Published on Apr 13, 2024 14:33 IST
    Translators Donald Rayfield, Georgia de Chamberet & Dennis Duncan ( L to R) at Hatchards Piccadilly, London

    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)
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    Updated on Apr 13, 2024 24:04 IST

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

    Author Perry Garfinkel (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Updated on Apr 12, 2024 23:56 IST

    Review: Vagabond Princess by Ruby Lal

    Gulbadan Begum smoking a hukkah. (Wikimedia Commons)
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    Updated on Apr 12, 2024 23:54 IST

    Review: From Phansi Yard by Sudha Bharadwaj

    Prison life; notes from inside (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Apr 13, 2024 05:23 IST

    A Suitable Boy turns 31

    Vikram Seth with Khushwant Singh in New Delhi on 27 February 1993. (Dinesh Kumar/HT Photo)
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    Published on Apr 12, 2024 15:56 IST

    Motorcycle diaries: On riding in the Garo Hills

    The Wangala dance at Condengre village in West Garo Hills (Royal Enfield Social Mission)
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    Published on Apr 11, 2024 15:56 IST

    Report: Sacred Spirit Festival 2024

    The Sufi whirling dance of the Nile (Sacred Spirit Festival)
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    Updated on Apr 11, 2024 14:52 IST

    Essay: On the spectacle of cancel culture

    A scene from Sick of Myself (Film still)
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    Published on Apr 9, 2024 15:24 IST

    Indian sci-fi: weird and wonderful

    Indian Science fiction: Opening doors to worlds that are both new and familiar. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 9, 2024 11:27 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)
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    Updated on Apr 8, 2024 15:27 IST

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

    Priya Narendra
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    Updated on Apr 6, 2024 14:28 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)
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    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:56 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)
    books
    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:49 IST

    Shyam Selvadurai – “Writing is a strange process”

    Author Shyam Selvadurai (George Pimentel)
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    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:48 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)
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    Updated on Apr 5, 2024 15:48 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)
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    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:47 IST

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

    Prayers at the Great Mosque of Mecca (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 4, 2024 14:59 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)
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    Updated on Apr 3, 2024 15:03 IST

    Poacher; a call to action

    A herd of wild Indian elephants at Corbett National Park (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 2, 2024 15:08 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)
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    Updated on Apr 2, 2024 09:45 IST

    Report: The Kolkata Literary Meet 2024

    Jerry Pinto and Shanta Gokhale sharing their translations of the poetry of Tukaram
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    Published on Apr 1, 2024 19:31 IST

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

    Poet, playwright and novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Apr 1, 2024 15:46 IST

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

    The Undoing Project
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    Published on Mar 31, 2024 18:03 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)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 15:51 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)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 13:48 IST

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

    Illustrator Charlotte Ager (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 13:46 IST

    Review: Never Never Land byNamita Gokhale

    Homes in Kumaon, Uttarakhand. (Rajeev Sachdeva/Universal Images Group via Getty)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 13:45 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)
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    Updated on Mar 29, 2024 13:42 IST

    Dastarkhwan-e-Mohabbat; of fasting and feasting

    The sumptuous spread at the iftar organised by the author and her friends in Gurgaon. (Courtesy iftar hosts)
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    Updated on Mar 28, 2024 16:08 IST
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