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Excerpt: August in Kabul by Andrew Quilty

Evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. (via REUTERS)
Updated on Dec 6, 2022 13:57 IST

Book Box: Why We Need Memoirs — 2

Welcome to Book Box!
Updated on Dec 4, 2022 13:25 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a two-volume set of nazms by Jan Nisar Akhtar and Kaifi Azmi, another two-volume set on human history, and an illustrated edition of 100 great tales from the Puranas. (HT Team)
Published on Dec 2, 2022 11:01 IST

Review: Zikr by Muzaffar Ali

Muzaffar Ali and Dimple Kapadia during the making of his unreleased film Zooni (1988). (HT Photo)
Published on Dec 2, 2022 10:57 IST

Re-reading the Ramayana of Valmiki

A scene from the Ramlila held at the Kavi Nagar Ramlila Grounds in Ghaziabad on 2 October 2019. (Sakib Ali/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Dec 5, 2022 03:15 IST

Report: The Prithvi Theatre Festival 2022

A scene from the Tibetan play Pah-Lak. (Courtesy Prithvi Festival)
Updated on Nov 30, 2022 04:03 IST

Book Box: Why We Need Memoirs — 1

Author Manjari Jaruhar, third from left.
Updated on Dec 4, 2022 13:25 IST

Review: India After 1947 by Rajmohan Gandhi

Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari. “As the grandson of Gandhi from his paternal side and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari from his maternal side, the author knew, with close familiarity, many of the stalwarts whose names dominate India’s modern history.” (Wikimedia Commons)
Published on Nov 25, 2022 19:43 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

A look at how the last three decades have changed Mumbai, a collection of essays in honour of an eminent art historian, and a volume of poetry -- all that on our list of great reads this week. (HT Team)
Published on Nov 25, 2022 19:18 IST

Essay: My feathered friends are homeless

“Colourful Parrots were regular visitors, thanks to the wild fruit trees that thrived on this fertile piece of land.” (Prerna Jain)
Updated on Nov 24, 2022 22:42 IST

Review: Happy Endings by Minita Sanghvi

Lesbians at a gay pride march in India. Happy Endings is a contemporary Indian LGBTQi love story. (ParthaKar49/Shutterstock.com)
Updated on Nov 22, 2022 15:19 IST

Book Box: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of YA

Poster Girl.
Published on Nov 22, 2022 09:13 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

A collection of writing by authors across millennia, who were born or lived in what is modern-day Bihar, a volume on miniature painting from Bundelkhand, and a book that includes the work of persecuted poets, writers and activists. (HT Team)
Updated on Nov 18, 2022 16:16 IST