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    HT Picks; New Reads

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    Updated on Aug 18, 2023 14:54 IST
    This week’s list of interesting reads includes an extraordinary memoir, a book that looks at the judiciary and its relationship with the government, and a collection of poems that give voice to the struggles of a pioneering Indian woman. (HT Team)

    Review: The Last Courtesan; Writing my Mother’s Memoir by Manish Gaekwad

    Meena Kumari in Pakeezah (1972). Rekhabai saw herself as a tragedienne like the actress Meena Kumari. (HT Archives)
    books
    Updated on Aug 18, 2023 14:47 IST

    Review: Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji

    A tiranga rally in India. “More of a social history, Joya Chatterji’s Shadows at Noon also discusses art, theatre, cinema, sports, cuisines, family, household affairs, domestic help and their anxieties and vulnerabilities and slum-dwellers too.” (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)
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    Updated on Aug 18, 2023 14:47 IST

    Essay: The catastrophe that destroyed all meaning

    The mushroom cloud of the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. (Everett Collection/Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Aug 17, 2023 12:31 IST

    Book Review: The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

    Bottles of traditional perfume and ittar on display outside a shop in old Hyderabad. (balajisrinivasan / Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Aug 17, 2023 10:50 IST

    Interview: Kala Ramesh, Managing Editor, haikuKATHA-We focus on supporting poets

    Founder and managing editor, HaikuKATHA, Kala Ramesh (HT Photo)
    books
    Updated on Aug 16, 2023 16:07 IST

    Excerpt: Unknown Heroes of India’s Freedom Struggle

    Tulika Graphix (Courtesy the publisher)
    books
    Updated on Aug 15, 2023 13:03 IST

    Essay: The mystery of Enid Blyton’s enduring appeal in India

    Author Enid Blyton (11 August 1897-28 November 1968) (https://www.enidblyton.co.uk/nid)
    books
    Updated on Aug 14, 2023 15:30 IST

    Book Box | Stories from India’s margins

    Margins
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    Published on Aug 12, 2023 10:13 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s list of interesting reads includes an account of Oppenheimer’s life and times, a book that shows how some of the most important political decisions in independent India were taken, and 16 stories on same sex love and deire translated from Hindi. (HT Team)
    books
    Updated on Aug 11, 2023 14:37 IST

    Interview: Shubhra Gupta, author, Irrfan Khan: A Life in Movies

    Author Shubhra Gupta (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Updated on Aug 11, 2023 14:43 IST

    Review: Famine Tales; A Graphic Anthology edited by Ayesha Mukherjee et al

    From the anthology’s Phullara-r Bhoj scroll. (https://faminetales.exeter.ac.uk/)
    books
    Updated on Aug 11, 2023 14:35 IST

    Review: Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

    The Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi. (Virendra Singh Gosain/Hindustan Times)
    books
    Updated on Aug 12, 2023 04:46 IST

    Interview: Rahul Soni, translator - “Is hopefulness a truthful stance?”

    Translator Rahul Soni (Courtesy the publisher)
    books
    Updated on Aug 11, 2023 11:11 IST

    Review: Understanding the India China Border by Manoj Joshi

    The border between India and China in Ladakh (RUCHUDA BOONPLIEN /Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Aug 11, 2023 02:44 IST

    Review: Beyond the Story; 10-year Record of BTS by Myeongseok Kang

    BTS at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas in 2020. (Kathy Hutchins)
    books
    Updated on Aug 10, 2023 14:44 IST

    Book to film: On Oppenheimer and American Prometheus

    Cillian Murphy in and as Oppenheimer. (Universal Pictures)
    books
    Updated on Aug 9, 2023 15:31 IST

    Interview: Siddhartha Deb – ‘Our present crisis did not arrive out of nowhere’

    Author Siddhartha Deb (Nina Subin)
    books
    Updated on Aug 8, 2023 10:55 IST

    Five books by Leon Uris that entwine history and fiction

    Leon Uris on a visit to Israel in 1967. (Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)
    books
    Updated on Aug 7, 2023 16:34 IST

    Book Box: Five must-hear podcasts that will transform your reading

    Book podcasts are a great way to discover new books and to learn about the people behind the books.
    books
    Published on Aug 5, 2023 11:57 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s reading list includes a debut novel on an unlikely set of friends finding each other in Paris, a volume on how the diverse peoples of the northeast became a part of India, and a book about two misfits who discover they are kindred souls. (HT Team)
    books
    Updated on Aug 4, 2023 17:02 IST

    Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - “Writing about the Vietnam war took a toll on me”

    Author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Courtesy the subject)
    books
    Updated on Aug 4, 2023 16:57 IST

    Review: Who Killed Moosewala? by Jupinderjit Singh

    Sidhu Moosewala performing at Crystal Palace in London on September 12, 2021. (Burak Cingi/Redferns)
    books
    Updated on Aug 4, 2023 16:53 IST

    Review: Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated by Rahul Soni

    A view of the ruins of Nalanda in the ancient kingdom of Magadha, now Bihar. (Parwaz Khan /HT PHOTO)
    books
    Updated on Aug 4, 2023 16:52 IST

    Essay: Titahri Tales

    A red-wattled lapwing
    books
    Published on Aug 4, 2023 16:42 IST

    Excerpt: Northeast India; A Political History by Samrat Choudhury

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

    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)
    books
    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)
    books
    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)
    books
    Updated on Aug 1, 2023 14:58 IST

    Essay: The Barbie-fication of wokeness

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