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Report: The Mahindra Kabira Festival

Published on Jan 10, 2024 10:11 pm IST

Hindustani classical vocalist Bhuvanesh Komkali paying a musical tribute to his grandfather, Kumar Gandharva. (Courtesy The Mahindra Kabira Festival)

Review: Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li

Wednesday’s Child; the sort of book that draws in the reader. (Picture for representational purposes only.) (M Zhazo/Hindustan Times)

Published on Jan 10, 2024 02:46 pm IST

Interview: Abhishek Chaubey - “I look at film as an art. I am not an activist”

Director and screenwriter Abhishek Chaubey (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jan 09, 2024 09:24 pm IST

Essay: Philosophical in the Philippines

Mount Fuji in Japan (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 08, 2024 06:47 pm IST

Book Box | Writers, it’s okay to be jealous

The Artist's Way

Published on Jan 07, 2024 08:30 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a new biography of a Kashmiri leader, a guidebook to the animals and plants found in and around the Corbett Tiger Reserve, and an English translation of the poetry of Hafiz (HT Team)

Published on Jan 05, 2024 10:28 pm IST

Interview: Janani Kannan, translator

Janani Kannan (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jan 05, 2024 10:26 pm IST

Review: Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag

The unknowable lives of ordinary people. (Tim Graham/Getty Images)

Published on Jan 05, 2024 10:23 pm IST

Review: Green Pearls of India by V Sundararaju

A 75-year-old banyan tree in the Baba Nayaram Das temple in Manesar, Haryana. (Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jan 05, 2024 10:21 pm IST

Review: A Shining by Jon Fosse

Norwegian wood: In Jon Fosse’s latest novella, a man ventures into a forest as night falls. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 05, 2024 09:53 pm IST

Review: Operation Bazooka by Rajesh Pandey and Rakesh Goswami

An aerial view of a part of Lucknow in a picture dated 24 February 1999. (HT Photo by Subhamkar)

Updated on Jan 04, 2024 11:19 am IST

Daaaaaali! Serving surreal for dinner

Jonathan Cohen in Daaaaaali! “Not one, not two, but five different actors play Dalí at different ages: Édouard Baer, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen and Didier Flamand.” (Film still/Atelier de Production France 3 Cinema)

Published on Jan 03, 2024 04:52 pm IST

Report: Serendipity Arts Festival 2023

Vidya Thirunarayan in Lives Of Clay at the Serendipity Arts Festival (Shireen Quadri)

Published on Jan 02, 2024 08:39 pm IST

On Orry and Einstein

Orry being himself. (Instagram: Orry1)

Updated on Jan 01, 2024 09:31 pm IST

Book Box | Meet Mita Kapur, literary agent, food writer

Mita Kapur, literary agent and food writer

Published on Jan 01, 2024 11:59 am IST

A 2024 bucket list for book lovers

A view of Dunedin, New Zealand. “Ōtepoti (Dunedin) is widely known for its Scottish influence, but the area is also home to Māori history and stories of the manawhenua that settled here long before the Europeans arrived.” (Luciano Brito / Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:36 pm IST

HT Editors pick their favourite reads of 2023

Books on Gaza, the global economy, space exploration, Twitter, surrealist art, Nepal’s feminist history, and memoirs that touch on caste prejudice and human trafficking all feature in the HT Editors’ collective list of great reads of the year. (Monica Gupta)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:25 pm IST

R Sukumar picks his favourite read of 2023

An original piece of fiction that can be read at multiple levels (Riverhead Books)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:43 pm IST

Lalita Panicker picks her favourite reads of 2023

In a broken and desperate land (Pluto Press)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:42 pm IST

Zara Murao picks her favourite reads of 2023

A sweeping look at a species that has always been on the move (Hachette)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:41 pm IST

Rachel Lopez picks her favourite reads of 2023

Rock & roll and lapis lazuli (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:40 pm IST

Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2023

Scents and sensibility: from Bow Bazaar to Kannauj (Westland)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:39 pm IST

Meenal Baghel picks her favourite reads of 2023

Of old masters and modern greats (Thames and Hudson)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:38 pm IST

Roshan Kishore picks his favourite reads of 2023

The dialectics of political economy (University of Chicago Press)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:37 pm IST

Rhythma Kaul picks her favourite read of 2023

Across the universe (Elliott & Thompson)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:36 pm IST

Anup Gupta picks his favourite read of 2023

Creative tales from the Raj (Self published)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:35 pm IST

Vishal Mathur picks his favourite reads of 2023

Of troll personae and the designs of tomorrow (Macmillan Business)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:32 pm IST

Zia Haq picks his favourite read of 2023

Putting growth in its place (Context)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:31 pm IST

Dhrubo Jyoti picks their favourite read of 2023

Of longing, loneliness and learning (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:30 pm IST

Paroma S Mukherjee picks her favourite reads of 2023

A visual archive of a nation’s feminist history (Nepal Picture Library)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:29 pm IST

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