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    Book Box | Meet Priya Narendra: The writer who loves badly behaved women

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    Updated on Apr 6, 2024 14:28 IST
    Priya Narendra

    Report: Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2024

    Bestselling author Anuja Chauhan, whose latest novel The Fast and the Dead is a murder mystery set on Karwa Chauth night. (AKLF2024)
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    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:56 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    On the reading list this week is a book of essays on the construction of identities within Indian contexts, a book on ganja, and a posthumous novel that’s a meditation on freedom and love (HT Team)
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    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:49 IST

    Shyam Selvadurai – “Writing is a strange process”

    Author Shyam Selvadurai (George Pimentel)
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    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:48 IST

    Review: City on Fire; A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan

    Far from Upar Kot though it’s in the same city: A view of Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh. (Universal Images Group via Getty)
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    Updated on Apr 5, 2024 15:48 IST

    Review: The Musical Maverick; The Authorized Biography Of Shankar Mahadevan by Ashis Ghatak

    Shankar Mahadevan (centre) rehearing for Symphony Orchestra of India’s Spring season 2020 with Zane Dalal, Zakir Hussain, Hariharan and Kelley O’Connor at NCPA, Nariman Point, Mumbai on February 24 2020. (Aalok Soni/HT PHOTO)
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    Published on Apr 5, 2024 15:47 IST

    Review: Understanding Islam; Its Spirit and Values by Abad Ahmad

    Prayers at the Great Mosque of Mecca (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 4, 2024 14:59 IST

    Back to the future: Marriage and live-in relationships in ancient India

    Raja Ravi Varma’s painting of King Dushyanta proposing marriage to Shakuntala. The story of Dushyant and Shakuntala is a tale of the pitfalls of the gandharva vivaha. (Wellcome Library, London/Wikimedia commons)
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    Updated on Apr 3, 2024 15:03 IST

    Poacher; a call to action

    A herd of wild Indian elephants at Corbett National Park (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Apr 2, 2024 15:08 IST

    Review: The Bard and his Sister-in-Law by Mallika Sengupta

    Tales of Jorasanko: A vintage picture of Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral home. (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Apr 2, 2024 09:45 IST

    Report: The Kolkata Literary Meet 2024

    Jerry Pinto and Shanta Gokhale sharing their translations of the poetry of Tukaram
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    Published on Apr 1, 2024 19:31 IST

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave – “Reading develops bravery and cultivates empathy”

    Poet, playwright and novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Apr 1, 2024 15:46 IST

    Book Box | Goodbye Daniel Kahneman, whose life reads like a thriller

    The Undoing Project
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    Published on Mar 31, 2024 18:03 IST

    Report: The Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival, 2024

    Chillara Samaram, a play by the Little Earth School of Theatre, Kerala. (The Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival, 2024)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 15:51 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on the dilemma facing the Indian liberal, another that retells fairy tales to include diverse bodies and minds, and a novel that recreates the love story of Mahmud of Ghazni and his Turkish slave Ayaz and sets it in contemporary India. (HT Team)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 13:48 IST

    Charlotte Ager – “Self-doubt can completely freeze you up”

    Illustrator Charlotte Ager (Courtesy the subject)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 13:46 IST

    Review: Never Never Land byNamita Gokhale

    Homes in Kumaon, Uttarakhand. (Rajeev Sachdeva/Universal Images Group via Getty)
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    Published on Mar 29, 2024 13:45 IST

    Review: India in the Second World War: An Emotional History by Diya Gupta

    The Rimini Gurkha War Cemetery and the Second World War Indian Forces Memorial erected in Italy to officers and men of the Indian Army. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Mar 29, 2024 13:42 IST

    Dastarkhwan-e-Mohabbat; of fasting and feasting

    The sumptuous spread at the iftar organised by the author and her friends in Gurgaon. (Courtesy iftar hosts)
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    Updated on Mar 28, 2024 16:08 IST

    Review: Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo

    A street in Rome, Italy, where the protagonist of Veronica Raimo’s Lost on Me grows up. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Mar 28, 2024 15:53 IST

    Married to genius

    A scene from ‘Priscilla directed’, and produced by Sofia Coppola. The film is based on the 1985 memoir ‘Elvis and Me’ by Priscilla Presley. (Amazon Prime)
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    Published on Mar 27, 2024 15:07 IST

    Parakala Prabhakar – “My intention is to generate a spirited debate”

    Author Parakala Prabhakar (Courtesy Kerala Literature Festival)
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    Published on Mar 26, 2024 14:38 IST

    Book Box | A Chicago Bookstore Crawl

    Exile in Bookville, Chicago
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    Published on Mar 23, 2024 18:10 IST

    Report: Sacred Amritsar Festival 2024

    Jasleen Aulakh and band performing at Sacred Amritsar (Courtesy Sacred Amritsar Festival)
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    Updated on Mar 23, 2024 04:18 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that looks at the privilege of travelling, another on five people who were part of the freedom struggle, and one on a critic’s influence on India’s great modern artists. (HT Team)
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    Updated on Mar 23, 2024 00:40 IST

    Chitralekha Zutshi - “This is not an apologia for his actions”

    Author Chitralekha Zutshi (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Mar 23, 2024 04:33 IST

    Review: Notes on a Marriage: A Novel by Selma Carvalho

    Staring into the distance, together; A sculpture by Lynn Chadwick at Canary Wharf, London. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Mar 23, 2024 00:30 IST

    Review: Aryans by Charles Allen

    A performance of the Ramayana ballet at the Prambanan temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Aleksandar Todorovic/Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Mar 23, 2024 00:14 IST

    Review: The Gallery by Manju Kapur

    Visitors at an art show in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)
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    Published on Mar 21, 2024 16:08 IST

    Interview: Manav Kaul, author, Rooh - “I carry my home with me”

    Author Manav Kaul (Kunal Patil/ Hindustan Times)
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    Updated on Mar 21, 2024 02:34 IST
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