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Interview: Sahar Zaman, author, Talat Mahmood; The Definitive Biography

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 09:20 am IST

An early picture of singer Talat Mahmood

Bhuvanesh Komkali - “There is no one bigger than the guru. Not even God”

Hindustani classical singer, Bhuvanesh Komkali performing in Varanasi at the Mahindra Kabira Festival. (Mahindra Kabira Festival)

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 05:48 am IST

Can't: A novel by Shinie Antony. Exclusive excerpt

Cover from Can't: A novel by Shinie Antony

Published on Jan 28, 2024 02:12 pm IST

Book Box: The destroyed fort that lives on

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji ( photo by author)

Updated on Jan 27, 2024 09:16 pm IST

Toby Walsh – “We fear that what we create will get the better of us”

Author Toby Walsh (TU Berlin/ Christian Kielmann)

Published on Jan 26, 2024 10:30 pm IST

Review: The Grammar of My Body by Abhishek Anicca

Abhishek Anicca in performance (Reframe Institute of Art and Expression)

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 10:28 pm IST

Akshaya Mukul – “Your job as a biographer is to dig and document, not to judge”

Author Akshaya Mukul (Courtesy the publisher)

Published on Jan 26, 2024 10:26 pm IST

The great puzzle: Lewis Carroll and the child who inspired his most famous work

Illustration by John Tenniel of Alice after she’s had the ‘Drink Me’ potion in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jan 26, 2024 08:34 pm IST

Nehru presenting glimpses of history and of himself

Jawaharlal Nehru (HT Photo)

Published on Jan 26, 2024 08:29 pm IST

Ian Cardozo, author, Beyond Fear - “I write to pay homage to unknown soldiers”

Major General Ian Cardozo (Retd.), author, Beyond Fear. (Saurabh Sharma)

Published on Jan 24, 2024 09:14 pm IST

Review: Bandi Jeevan by Sachindra Nath Sanyal

Sachindra Nath Sanyal, author of Bandi Jeevan, was a co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Army, a revolutionary group active during the freedom struggle. (Calcutta mahajati sadan/Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Jan 24, 2024 07:09 pm IST

Report: The Mumbai Poetry Festival 2024

Poets from across the globe at The Mumbai Poetry Festival 2024 (Sagar Bhor)

Published on Jan 23, 2024 09:18 pm IST

Interview: Kanan Gill – “I believe in the gods that I have written”

Kanan Gill

Published on Jan 22, 2024 11:41 pm IST

Book Box | A moving memoir offers six strategies to become a master persuader

Daring to Drive(Author)

Published on Jan 20, 2024 08:43 pm IST

On discovering Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) (Michal Kalasek / Shutterstock)

Published on Jan 20, 2024 06:26 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on the violence in Manipur, an anthology of Sri Lankan poetry, and a volume on the implications of AI faking human intelligence. (HT Team)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 09:45 am IST

Diana Evans, author, A House for Alice – “Our lives are inherently political”

Author Diana Evans (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 09:45 am IST

Review: The Fast and the Dead byAnuja Chauhan

Married Hindu women look at the moon before breaking their fast on Karva Chauth. (Deepak Gupta/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 09:44 am IST

Interview: Abraham Verghese, author, The Covenant of Water

Author Abraham Verghese (Christopher P. Michel)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 09:43 am IST

Report: The 99th edition of the Tansen Samaroh

1500 tabla players who performed together at the Tansen Samaroh’s ‘Taal Darbaar’ set a Guinness World Record. (Sandeep Harode)

Updated on Jan 19, 2024 05:56 am IST

Flashback to the Bobbsey Twins

For children from a range of cultures, the Bobbsey Twins series played into the fantasy of the perfect family doing fun things together seemingly unhindered by economic hardship, relationship hiccups or everyday neuroses. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jan 17, 2024 09:52 pm IST

Revisiting An Actress in her Time by Karuna Banerjee

Karuna Banerjee in a scene from Aparajito (1956), the second film in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy. (Film still)

Updated on Jan 17, 2024 09:04 am IST

Zeyad Masroor Khan – “My relationship with faith is always oscillating”

Author Zeyad Masroor Khan (Courtesy the subject’s instagram account @zeyadmkhan)

Updated on Jan 16, 2024 09:48 pm IST

“Each Kabir poem is like a wake-up call” - Vasu Dixit

Vasu Dixit performing in Varanasi (Courtesy the Mahindra Kabira Festival)

Published on Jan 15, 2024 09:15 pm IST

Book Box: William Dalrymple: The man with a foot in both camps

William Dalrymple( ( pic courtesy William Dalrymple)

Published on Jan 13, 2024 11:13 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a fine volume on Kashmiri carpets and rugs, one on how beef eating is many things to many people in contemporary India, and a memoir about fighting to stay true to oneself. (HT Team)

Published on Jan 13, 2024 06:45 am IST

Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli - “Caste shapes access to water in so many ways”

Floods in and around Chennai in December 2023. (ANI/PIB)

Published on Jan 13, 2024 06:41 am IST

Review: Naulakhi Kothi by Ali Akbar Natiq, translated by Naima Rashid

View of Wah village in Rawalpindi district, Punjab, 1934. (Bristol Archives/Universal Image)

Published on Jan 13, 2024 06:37 am IST

Review: Jatin Das; A Retrospective 1963-2023

Artist Jatin Das (Raghu Rai/Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jan 13, 2024 06:33 am IST

Zeenat Aman: ‘I’ve never looked better than I have in clothes by Bhanu Athaiya’

Bhanu Athaiya with her Oscar for her work in Gandhi (1982). She is still the only Indian to have won the award in the Best Costume Design category. (Courtesy Bharat Through the Lens of Bhanu Athaiya, organised by luxury auction house Prinseps)

Published on Jan 12, 2024 09:34 pm IST

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