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Essay: On the caustic humour of Succession

“The Roys wear tailored suits, fly on private jets, holiday aboard luxury yachts, live in swank penthouses — yet their lives are empty and embittered by a lifetime of waiting for their father to hand over the reins of a billion-dollar media empire.” (HBO)
Updated on Jun 8, 2023 15:28 IST

Review: Truth/Untruth by Mahasweta Devi

The Howrah Bridge in Kolkata. (HT Photo)
Updated on Jun 5, 2023 15:43 IST

Book Box: Reading in the Mountains

 Ten books to take into the mountains
Published on Jun 4, 2023 16:08 IST

Essay: Following the white squirrel

A white squirrel in the writer’s garden (Prerna Jain)
Updated on May 31, 2023 16:33 IST

Book Box: A Delhi Bookstore Crawl

Books Galore!
Published on May 27, 2023 14:33 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s list of interesting reads includes a book that tries to understand India through its food culture, another that tells the story of a common man who fought the system and pulled off a great victory, and a volume that shows you how to better appreciate and respect the true origins of yoga. (HT Team)
Updated on May 26, 2023 14:14 IST

Review: The Broken Rainbow by Ruth Vanita

The magnificent Rampur Raza Library, the scene of Ruth Vanita’s poem Dawn at the Rampur Library. (Deepak G Goswami / Wikimedia Commons)
Updated on May 27, 2023 07:21 IST

Review: Banaras Talkies by Satya Vyas

Students at the BHU campus that’s the setting for Banaras Talkies. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
Updated on May 26, 2023 11:22 IST

Essay: Judging a book by its cover

Paramita Brahmachari’s cover for Pebble Monkey by Manindra Gulpta won the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize 2023. (Oxford Bookstore)
Updated on Jun 2, 2023 12:23 IST

Essay: On the Diamond Sutra

The Diamond Sutra is a Buddhist text written which was written circa 400 CE. It is the earliest printed text with a known date of printing, 868 AD and was found in China. (The British Library)
Updated on May 22, 2023 13:58 IST

Book Box: A Weekend of Crime

Black River by Nilanjana S. Roy
Published on May 20, 2023 10:01 IST