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Report: Prithvi Festival 2023

Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah in Old World (Courtesy Prithvi Festival)
Updated on Nov 21, 2023 02:30 IST

Essay: On natural disasters and climate writing

A hail storm in New Delhi on May 14, 2020 (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)
Published on Nov 18, 2023 11:34 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a Marwari cookbook, a memoir from one of Kerala’s foremost authors, and an exploration of how pop culture is being used to make Hindutva more acceptable to many more people. (HT Team)
Updated on Nov 17, 2023 23:40 IST

Review: This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara

Many of the stories in Vauhini Vara’s new collection explore the female experiences of biological change, family relationships and loneliness. These are themes also prominent in the work of Mrinalini Mukherjee, whose sculpture Aranyani (1996) is pictured above. (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Nov 17, 2023 23:36 IST

Unsettling beauty

“Bats and owls/ransack the night/in search of remnants/of memory hidden/by human beings.” - From ‘Chakmak’ by Ramesh Karthik Nayak (Shutterstock)
Updated on Nov 14, 2023 09:45 IST

MAMI mia! – notes from a festival

Monster, a film by Hirokazu Kareeda. (Film still)
Updated on Nov 11, 2023 02:30 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s list of interesting reads includes short stories translated from the Malayalam, an ad man’s memoir, and a volume on the entwined well being of humans and animals. (HT Team)
Updated on Nov 11, 2023 01:18 IST

Review: The Great Indian Cricket Circus

Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami celebrate the wicket of New Zealand's Mitchell Santner during the ICC Men's World Cup ODI cricket match between India and New Zealand at the HPCA Stadium, Dharamshala on October 22, 2023. (Manvender Vashist Lav/PTI)
Updated on Nov 11, 2023 01:12 IST

Six books you didn’t know were propaganda

 Here are six books, all by authors of merit, that are works of propaganda in one way or another. (representational image).
Published on Nov 4, 2023 16:31 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on action undertaken by members of the UP IAS Officers Association in the 1990s, a murder mystery that kicks off on Karwa Chauth, and a volume on Assam’s diverse culture and people. (HT Team)
Updated on Nov 4, 2023 02:16 IST