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    Kailash Satyarthi - “We need to globalise compassion”

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    Published on May 29, 2024 15:34 IST
    Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi (KSCF)

    A day of readings at the Kashmir Fiction Writers Guild

    A writer reads out her short fiction at a meeting of the Kashmir Fiction Writers Guild. (Hilal Mir)
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    Published on May 28, 2024 12:38 IST

    Vanessa R Sasson - Each time we learn, our world becomes bigger

    Author Vanessa R Sasson (Jaipur Literature Festival)
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    Published on May 28, 2024 11:37 IST

    Book Box | Why we need spy stories

    Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
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    Published on May 25, 2024 13:12 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    On the reading list this week is an assessment of India-Japan relations, a book that sheds new light on the Manusmriti, and a mixed race author’s cry for an inclusive future. (HT Team)
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    Published on May 24, 2024 17:24 IST

    Interview: Swati Narayan, author, Unequal; Why India Lags behind its Neighbours

    Author Swati Narayan (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on May 25, 2024 12:54 IST

    Review: The Collected Stories of Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury

    A scene from Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, which was based on a story from Golpomala by his grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. (HT Photo)
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    Updated on May 24, 2024 17:21 IST

    Review: Intertidal; A Coast and Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves

    Chennai’s coastline (Shutterstock)
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    Published on May 24, 2024 17:19 IST

    Essay: On provincial time

    A view of the road to Siliguri. “This is perhaps the only time “slow” is a compliment. “Slow time.” I’d hear it occasionally as a child, from my father’s friends and colleagues who would come to visit us in Siliguri, the sub-Himalayan town in Bengal where I grew up.” (Vikas Newar)
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    Updated on May 24, 2024 14:52 IST

    Neeraj Udhwani – “The OTT boom has been a blessing for writers”

    Director and screenwriter Neeraj Udhwani (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on May 23, 2024 14:10 IST

    Review: A Natural History of Violence by Ankush Saikia

    The middle class locality of Kalkaji in New Delhi was originally established to accommodate Partition refugees from Pakistan – people exactly like the family at the centre of Ankush Saikia’s A Natural History of Violence. (Tribhuwan Sharma/Hindustan Times)
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    Updated on May 23, 2024 24:16 IST

    Review: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

    East Berlin in 1990. (Felix O / Wikimedia Commons)
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    Published on May 22, 2024 09:55 IST

    Kira Josefsson – “Working to bring Ia’s words into English was an unalloyed joy”

    Translator Kira Josefsson (Courtesy thebookerprizes.com)
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    Published on May 21, 2024 12:09 IST

    Dublin: home of the world’s greatest storytellers

    People celebrating Bloomsday outside The Bailey pub in Dublin on 16th June 2023. Bloomsday celebrates the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. (Derick P Hudson/Shutterstock)
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    Published on May 21, 2024 10:38 IST

    Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist

    The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist is enticing
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    Published on May 18, 2024 18:32 IST

    Simon Rowe - “I wanted to flip the stereotype of the hard-drinking male detective”

    Author Simon Rowe (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Updated on May 17, 2024 23:58 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    On the reading list this week is the next edition of the Temple Hill murder mystery series, a novel about how individuals play a counterpoint to big movements in history, and a collection of Korean short fiction. (HT Team)
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    Updated on May 17, 2024 23:48 IST

    Review: Maria Just Maria by Sandhya Mary

    A seemingly “normal” girl cycling down a street in Kochi, Kerala. (Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal via Getty Images)
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    Updated on May 17, 2024 23:44 IST

    Ruskin Bond: Laughing into his 90th year

    Ruskin Bond at work. (Courtesy Harper Collins)
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    Updated on May 17, 2024 23:40 IST

    Page to Screen: Poor Things – Gray’s anatomy vs Lanthimos’s biopsy

    Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures)
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    Updated on May 17, 2024 11:46 IST

    Reflecting on The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

    A dancer at the Cinco de Mayo celebrations in San Diego. The festival celebrates Mexico’s victory over France on May 5, 1862 and is a powerful symbol of Mexican pride. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on May 16, 2024 14:53 IST

    Raghuram G Rajan - “Everyone should have a chance to succeed”

    Rohit Lamba (L) and Raghuram G Rajan at the Kolkata Literary Meet (Kolkata Literary Meet)
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    Published on May 16, 2024 14:37 IST

    Review: Beneath the Simolu Tree by Sarmistha Pritam

    A view of the landscape of Assam. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on May 15, 2024 14:47 IST

    Battue La Terre: Love lost on the tennis court

    Battue La Terre (or Beaten Earth in English) is about two individuals meeting one last time on a tennis court to bid each other adieu. (Andreas Eggler)
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    Updated on May 14, 2024 15:39 IST

    Review: Tell Me How To Be by Neel Patel

    Indian Americans marching in a parade in New York. (Andy Katz/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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    Published on May 13, 2024 15:17 IST

    Sara Rai's Raw Umber makes you crave the forgotten languages of your life

    Sara Rai
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    Published on May 11, 2024 19:22 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an old classic about working for the conservation of reptiles, a book on people from small towns, and a picture book featuring a female auto driver (HT Team)
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    Published on May 10, 2024 16:26 IST

    Interview: Jente Posthuma, author, What I’d Rather Not Think About, and translator Sarah Timmer Harvey

    Author Jente Posthuma (Bas Uterwijk)
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    Published on May 10, 2024 16:25 IST

    Review: The Boy Who Built a Secret Garden by Lavanya Karthik

    Nek Chand in the Rock Garden, Chandigarh, in 1997. (Raphael Gaillarde/Getty Images)
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    Published on May 10, 2024 16:23 IST

    Review: Descent into Paradise by Daniel Bosley

    The spectacular beauty of Maldives. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on May 10, 2024 16:18 IST
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