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Review: Indian Christmas edited by Jerry Pinto and Madhulika Liddle
Updated on Dec 13, 2022 08:19 PM IST
An anthology of memories, essays, pictures, poems and hymns on Christmas celebrations in the country
Neha Kirpal
Report: The Mahindra Kabira Festival 2022
The sixth edition of the festival celebrated the 15th-century weaver-poet Kabir’s words and wisdom through music, puppetry, storytelling, and scholarly talks
Updated on Dec 13, 2022 12:35 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Book Box: Best Book Club Reads of 2022
Seven Book Club reads to spark conversations and give you new ways of looking at the world
Published on Dec 10, 2022 06:50 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week, a first-hand account of the end of America’s mission in Afghanistan, the story of cricket told through those who have shaped the game, and a Kannadiga public intellectual’s examination of the nature of the RSS
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:10 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Orijit Sen, author, River of Stories - ‘I realise the book was ahead of its time’
The graphic novelist and designer talks about the 25th anniversary edition of his lightly fictionalised account of the Narmada Bachao Andolan of the 1990s
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:09 PM IST
Majid Maqbool
Review: My Life in Indian Politics by Mohsina Kidwai
The voice of Muslim women’s intervention in politics in the post-Independence period presents her view of the complex personalities who dominated the nation over six decades
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:09 PM IST
Shafey Kidwai
Review: The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature and History After Empire by Sam Goodman
On the use of medicine as a defining trope by novelists like JG Farrell, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Salman Rushdie to explore the complex relationship between Britain, India and Empire
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:07 PM IST
Excerpt: I Know the Psychology of Rats by Saeed Mirza
I Know the Psychology of Rats, which is being launched in New Delhi on December 10, is filmmaker Saeed Mirza’s tribute to his friend and collaborator Kundan Shah who died in 2017. This extract talks about the making of the cult film, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Updated on Dec 12, 2022 10:48 AM IST
Saeed Mirza
Review: Citizen Gallery by Jerry Pinto
This book about Gallery Chemould and the extraordinary Gandhy family traces the history of modern art in India and includes a number of interesting stories about Bombay
Updated on Dec 08, 2022 05:17 PM IST
Neha Kirpal
Essay: Dominique Lapierre and the writer as saint
While City of Joy had a lurid focus on slums, lepers, prostitution, and child exploitation, eventually the author’s humanism overrode the writer in him
Updated on Dec 07, 2022 08:38 PM IST
Farzana Versey
Interview: An Yu, Author, Ghost Music - “I am drawn to the secrecy of mushrooms”
Chinese author An Yu’s latest novel, Ghost Music, uses the metaphor of mushrooms to reveal buried family secrets
Published on Dec 07, 2022 03:52 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Excerpt: August in Kabul by Andrew Quilty
This extract from a new book on America’s last days in Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban follows 19-year-old Nadia, whose family wants to give her up to the Taliban in exchange for security
Updated on Dec 06, 2022 07:27 PM IST
Andrew Quilty
A Kanisetti, Lords of the Deccan author: I feel gleeful when I demolish binaries
On winning the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction this year
Updated on Dec 05, 2022 08:01 PM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Book Box: Why We Need Memoirs — 2
You don't have to be famous to write your memoirs. Here's why. Plus a chat with Dr Leena Chatterjee on why she gets management students to write their life stories.
Updated on Dec 04, 2022 06:55 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is an edition of companion volumes that showcases 25 nazmseach from two of India’s most iconic Urdu poets, Jan Nisar Akhtar and Kaifi Azmi, another two-volume set on the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family, and an illustrated edition of 100 great mythological tales from the Puranas
Published on Dec 02, 2022 04:31 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Ramu Katakam, author, Spaces in Time – A Life in Architecture - “I yearn for a return to basics”
The veteran architect and design thinker reflects on his recent memoir and about a life spent among buildings
Published on Dec 02, 2022 04:28 PM IST
Kunal Ray
Review: Zikr by Muzaffar Ali
Filmmaker and designer Muzaffar Ali’s autobiography reminisces about his childhood and the journey of his films, and reveals his enduring love for poetry and devotion to Sufism
Published on Dec 02, 2022 04:27 PM IST
Arun AK
Interview: George Saunders, author, Liberation Day
George Saunders, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo, talks about Liberation Day, his new collection of short stories
Updated on Dec 02, 2022 04:25 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Re-reading the Ramayana of Valmiki
Reading Kamala Subramaniam’s English translation of the grand epic is a rewarding journey into the natural beauty of old India and into the emotional landscape of the heart
Updated on Dec 05, 2022 08:45 AM IST
Shekhar Pathak, author, The Chipko Movement: ‘Ecology and economy are connected’
The winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 and founder of the People’s Association for Himalaya Area Research (PAHAR) talks about writing a people’s history of the movement
Updated on Dec 05, 2022 09:07 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Review: The Cinema of Satyajit Ray by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
A volume on the film maker’s oeuvre includes analyses of his 39 films and interviews with those who have been struck by his work
Published on Dec 01, 2022 05:10 PM IST
Shoma A Chatterji
Excerpt: Bombay After Ayodhya by Jitendra Dixit
This extract from a contemporary biography of the city points out that, 14 years after the 26/11 attacks, Mumbai’s security systems still aren’t as robust as they should be
Updated on Nov 30, 2022 08:33 PM IST
Jitendra Dixit
Report: The Prithvi Theatre Festival 2022
The plays, poetry readings, talks, dance performances, and music concerts presented at the festival gave audiences a taste of the magic of live performances
Updated on Nov 30, 2022 09:33 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Review: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Friends star Matthew Perry’s eye-opening memoir talks about his fear of being alone and his lifelong struggle with drugs and alcohol
Updated on Nov 28, 2022 06:50 PM IST
Neha Kirpal
Book Box: Why We Need Memoirs — 1
A policewoman, and a Nobel prize winner, and seven reasons to read memoirs.
Updated on Dec 04, 2022 06:55 PM IST
Review: Cherry Red Cherry Black by Kavery Nambisan
A book that traces the origin of coffee, its history in India, and the growth of coffee culture in the country
Updated on Nov 26, 2022 03:45 PM IST
Swati Rai
Review: India After 1947 by Rajmohan Gandhi
We are the country with the longest constitution in the world
Published on Nov 26, 2022 01:13 AM IST
Samrat Choudhury
Interview: Ashok Maheshwari, MD, Rajkamal Prakashan – “The prize changed things overnight”
On how things have changed for the 75-year-old publishing house since Geetanjali Shree won the International Booker Prize
Published on Nov 26, 2022 01:03 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s reading list includes a book that examines the last three decades of great change in Mumbai, 22 essays that comprise a tribute to a pioneering art historian, and a collection of poems
Published on Nov 26, 2022 12:48 AM IST
HT Team
Interview: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author, Independence
On her new book that follows the lives of three sisters at the end of the British occupation of India to illustrate what independence means for a country and for its women
Published on Nov 26, 2022 12:37 AM IST
Simar Bhasin
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