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Review: H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit

Updated on Mar 08, 2024 10:52 pm IST

Hindutva supporters dancing in Gurugram. (Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on the status of Gorkhas in India today, a poetry anthology, and a volume that looks at how India’s digital revolution can open its market (HT Team)

Updated on Mar 08, 2024 10:39 pm IST

The Beast: All the lives we never lived

George Mackay and Lea Seydoux in The Beast (Film still)

Published on Mar 08, 2024 08:14 pm IST

Shenaz Treasury - “Marriage was invented when people lived till 35”

Actor and author Shenaz Treasury (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Mar 07, 2024 09:16 pm IST

Review: Outlive; The Science and Art of Longevity

Longevity involves overcoming the fear of dying (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 07, 2024 03:02 pm IST

Report: Kolkata People’s Film Festival

Arundhati Roy in conversation with Kasturi Basu at the Kolkata People’s Film Festival (Courtesy KPFF)

Published on Mar 05, 2024 08:46 pm IST

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez - “Poetry helps me to live”

Cuban poet Victor Rodriguez Nunez reading out his work at the Mumbai Poetry Festival 2024 (Courtesy the Mumbai Poetry Festival)

Published on Mar 04, 2024 09:33 pm IST

Book Box | Letter from Banaras

Harmony BookStore, Banaras(Author)

Published on Mar 02, 2024 10:47 pm IST

The flaneur in Mumbai

Kartik Aaryan: A film star in the crowd heading to Versova pier. (Suhit Bombaywala)

Updated on Mar 02, 2024 09:08 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of Sanskrit love poetry, a book on the India Museum and how it contributed to the representation of the country for a European audience, and an introduction to Australia’s important authors. (HT Team)

Updated on Mar 02, 2024 05:26 am IST

Manju Kapur – “Artists cannot create meaningful works if they are not free”

Author Manju Kapur (Courtesy the publisher)

Published on Mar 01, 2024 10:55 pm IST

Review: The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao by Lindsay Pereira

Firemen attempt to stop fires raging in Malad, Mumbai, on January 13, 1993. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Updated on Mar 01, 2024 10:53 pm IST

Review: Nationalism in the Vernacular by Roluahpuia

A picture taken in Mizoram on 05 September 1967. (HT Photo.)

Published on Mar 01, 2024 10:51 pm IST

Review: Playing Games by Huma Qureshi

Life and heartbreak in London (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 29, 2024 07:16 pm IST

Ranjana Kaul – “We still have to work a lot on issues of caste and patriarchy”

Ranjana Kaul has translated The Stepmother and Other Stories by Laxmibai Abhyankar (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Feb 28, 2024 03:30 pm IST

On the cultural festival, ‘Meer ki Dilli, Shahjahanabad: The Evolving City’

(From left) Saif Mahmood, Ather Farooqui, Salman Khurshid, Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah. (Courtesy Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind))

Published on Feb 27, 2024 05:29 pm IST

Review: The Seaweed Revolution by Vincent Doumeizel

Seaweed farms in Paje, Zanzibar (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 27, 2024 05:27 pm IST

Essay: Stray dogs and the curse of anthroparchal logic

Mumbai, India - May 26, 2022: A dog lover feeds kulfi to a street dog in the afternoon during the hot summer at Bandra, in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, May 26, 2022. (Photo by Vijay Bate/HT Photo) (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Feb 26, 2024 10:08 pm IST

JLF 2024: United by stories

The session on community libraries featuring Rituparna Neog (centre left) and Mridula Koshy (centre right). (JLF 2024)

Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:34 am IST

David Yang - “It was like translating film subtitles or poetry”

David Yang (Courtesy Pushkin Press)

Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:30 am IST

Mir and modernity

A portrait of Mir (Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:24 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of journalistic writing by Dom Moraes, a book that looks at Indian women’s sexuality, and a history of the Indian subcontinent. (HT Team)

Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:22 am IST

Book Box | Who exposed big pharma and what do need to know about him?

Patrick Radden Keefe (Sonya Dutta Choudhury)

Published on Feb 23, 2024 07:26 pm IST

Review: A Case of Indian Marvels edited by David Davidar

The people in these stories look like your average folks but “in the lives of nameless ‘uncles’ and ‘aunties’ we see the quick march of modernity.” (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 23, 2024 04:29 pm IST

A fine actor remembered

Sadhu Meher (left) and Ananth Nag in Ankur (1974). Meher won the National Film Award for Best Actor that year for his performance in the film, which was Shyam Benegal’s directorial debut. (Film still)

Updated on Feb 23, 2024 10:09 am IST

Sucheta Dasgupta - “Trailokyanath’s ghosts have interesting qualities”

“Trailokyanath’s ghosts are of two kinds: the metaphysical and the metaphorical. The metaphysical ghosts are the regular definition of bhoot, they are the souls of dead men, women and children. The metaphorical ghosts are subaltern characters living on the fringes of mainstream Bengali society, which is genteel and complicated.” (Shutterstock)

Published on Feb 21, 2024 04:35 pm IST

Report: Galle Literary Festival 2024

The session on ‘Writing Asia Based Fiction For A Global Audience’ with (from right) Manu Joseph, Shehan Karunatilaka and Balli Kaur Jaswal moderated by Thirangie Jayatilake at the Hall de Galle (Malaka Mp Photography (Galle Literary Festival))

Updated on Feb 20, 2024 08:53 pm IST

Review: One; The Story of the Ultimate Myth by Mansoor Khan

Looking at the idea that the bedrock of modern scientific progress has been built on a sacrificial approach driven by a selfish organism at its centre. (Shutterstock)

Published on Feb 20, 2024 03:45 pm IST

The burden of togetherness

Love in Mumbai. (Shashi S Kashyap/HT PHOTO)

Published on Feb 19, 2024 03:19 pm IST

Book Box | From Gone Girl to gritty romance, my journey into modern love

Relationships by Alain de Botton(Author)

Published on Feb 17, 2024 11:01 pm IST

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