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    Excerpt: Northeast India; A Political History by Samrat Choudhury

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    Updated on Aug 3, 2023 17:22 IST
    Neer Mahal, once the summer palace of the king of Tripura. (Shutterstock)

    Review: Widows of Colonial Bengal by Aishika Chakraborty

    Though the Widow Remarriage Act was passed in 1856, the treatment of widows continued to be dismal. This picture dated 14 June 1968 shows widows at an ashram. (Rane Prakash/HT Photo)
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    Updated on Aug 3, 2023 19:14 IST

    Essay: On yearning for extinct sounds

    “The typewriter’s khyat-khyat-khyat and moving the cursor from the line to the next – as if the line could be measured in a sound.” (Akella Srinivas Ramalingaswami / Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Aug 2, 2023 15:37 IST

    Interview: TM Krishna - “Guilt is a form of escapism. It is an excuse”

    Carnatic vocalist, author and activist TM Krishna (Ram Keshav)
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    Updated on Aug 1, 2023 14:58 IST

    Essay: The Barbie-fication of wokeness

    Barbie and Ken dolls (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Jul 31, 2023 15:18 IST

    Book Box | 5 thrilling books to snap you out of that reading slump

    The Guest by Emma Cline
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    Published on Jul 29, 2023 07:09 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of good reads includes a retelling of the story of how the princely states joined India, a “memory history” of the Tibetan struggle, and an anthology of the best short fiction written by Indians (HT Team)
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    Updated on Jul 28, 2023 12:16 IST

    Interview: Vishes Kothari - “Translation does become an act of activism”

    Vishes Kothari (Courtesy HarperCollins)
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    Updated on Jul 28, 2023 12:22 IST

    Review: Queers in QuarantineEdited by Koyote Millar and Rahul Sen

    Angel Mendoza (C) and Martin Juco (2nd R), who are transgender and non-binary, stand in line outside a bank during gender-based quarantine restrictions, amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bogota, Colombia May 5, 2020. (Luisa Gonzalez/REUTERS)
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    Updated on Jul 28, 2023 12:32 IST

    Review: The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel

    Vladimir Lenin, founding head of the government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924. (ismailyildiz/Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Jul 28, 2023 12:13 IST

    Essay: Beatrix Potter- The author who invented character merchandising

    Author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866-22 December 1943) (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Jul 28, 2023 10:52 IST

    Mash-up madness: Welcome to Barbenheimer

    The grand spectacle of a double bill (HT team)
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    Updated on Jul 27, 2023 13:30 IST

    Review: Violent Fraternity by Shruti Kapila

    The aftermath of communal violence in New Delhi in March 2020. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)
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    Updated on Jul 27, 2023 09:08 IST

    Review: The Scientific Sufi by Meher Wan

    Jagadish Chandra Bose demonstrating the horn antenna at the University of Calcutta. (SETI League photo, used by permission / Wikimedia Commons)
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    Updated on Jul 26, 2023 14:56 IST

    Excerpt: Dethroned by John Zubrzycki

    Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. “Today, Patel is often called the ‘Bismarck of India’ for repeating the German chancellor’s feat of cajoling a group of scattered and disparate princedoms into giving up their sovereignty and creating a cohesive nation state.” (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Jul 25, 2023 14:01 IST

    Interview | Maitreyee B Chowdhury - “Running a literary magazine is a pure love”

    Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury, managing editor, The Bangalore Review (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Jul 24, 2023 14:52 IST

    Book Box | The hidden truth about the opium poppy

    Smoke and Ashes
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    Published on Jul 22, 2023 09:35 IST

    Excerpt: The Indians edited by GN Devy, Tony Joseph and Ravi Korisettar

    Portrait of an East India Company official (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Jul 21, 2023 15:32 IST

    Kwame McPherson - ‘I am a lover of history, especially the forgotten bits’

    Winner of the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Kwame McPherson (Courtesy the Commonwealth Short Story Prize)
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    Updated on Jul 21, 2023 13:16 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a Booker nominee’s new novel about love and betrayal, a formidable volume on Indian history and society, and a reissued Partition novel originally written in the 1970s. (HT Team)
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    Updated on Jul 21, 2023 11:51 IST

    Review: Basu Chatterji And Middle-of-the-Road Cinema by Anirudha Bhattacharjee

    Vidya Sinha and Amol Palekar in a scene from Chhoti Si Baat (1976). (Film still)
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    Updated on Jul 21, 2023 11:49 IST

    Review: Faithful Fighters by Kate Imy

    Indian cavalry after their charge, Somme, France, First World War, 14 July 1916, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918, seventh edition, (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, London, c1920). (Print Collector/Getty Images)
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    Updated on Jul 21, 2023 11:47 IST

    Essay: An unnatural hunger

    Consumed by love (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Jul 20, 2023 13:35 IST

    Thomas Abraham, MD, Hachette India - “India prefers classic crime titles”

    Thomas Abraham (Courtesy Hachette)
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    Updated on Jul 19, 2023 18:19 IST

    Interview: Sumit Saxena - “With the advent of AI, every artist will have to lear

    Screenwriter Sumit Saxena (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Jul 19, 2023 13:29 IST

    Essay: A letter from Manipur

    Imphal: Unidentified miscreants torch two houses in retaliation against he killing of nine civilians by Kuki militants, in Manipur, Thursday, Jun 15, 2023. (PTI)
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    Updated on Jul 18, 2023 11:34 IST

    Review: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

    Trees in the Surrealist Garden in Hamilton Gardens, New Zealand. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Jul 17, 2023 16:30 IST

    Book Box: The Best of 2023 (So Far)

    Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
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    Published on Jul 14, 2023 20:10 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    The pick of interesting reads of the week includes a look at the hidden history of opium in India, China and Britain, the story of the liberation of Goa, and a biography of a great wildlife writer and hunter of man-eating tigers (HT Team)
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    Updated on Jul 14, 2023 14:02 IST

    Interview: Balli Kaur Jaswal, author, Now You See Us - “The novel centres migrant workers”

    Author Balli Kaur Jaswal (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Updated on Jul 14, 2023 14:01 IST
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