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    Book Box: Confront Your Fears with these Spooky Stories

    books
    Published on Oct 31, 2022 08:30 IST
    Halloween Horrors.

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s pick of good reads includes a new collection of short stories from a Booker prize winner, a translation of an eminent Pakistani poet’s work, and a look at why liberal democracy seems to be receding across the world. (HT Team)
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    Published on Oct 28, 2022 14:04 IST

    Interview, Aanchal Malhotra, Author, Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided? - “You learn to take care of the sadness of others”

    Author Aanchal Malhotra (Courtesy HarperCollins)
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    Published on Oct 28, 2022 13:32 IST

    Review: Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat

    Like the matryoshka dolls that usually follow a theme, the stories in Pariat’s novel follow the themes of botany and travel. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 28, 2022 13:18 IST

    Review: India’s Undeclared Emergency by Arvind Narrain

    Student protestors on the streets on 1 January 1975. The Emergency was declared on 25 June of the same year. (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Oct 28, 2022 13:09 IST

    Dating the Mahabharata war – A tale of eclipses, archaeology, and genealogies

    ‘Doot Ghatotkacham’, a play based on the Mahabharata being performed in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, in February 2016. The epic continues to inspire Indians. (Deepak Sansta / Hindustan Times)
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    Published on Oct 28, 2022 12:04 IST

    Excerpt: Tuticorin: Adventures in Tamil Nadu’s Crime Capital by V Sudarshan

    Out in the Tuticorin sun (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 28, 2022 09:55 IST

    Review: To Live Is to Resist; The Life of Antonio Gramsci by Jean-Yves Frétigné

    Antonio Gramsci (Wikimedia Commons)
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    Updated on Oct 27, 2022 17:44 IST

    Review: The Greatest Enemy of Rain by Manu Bhattathiri

    This could be the man who rages against the rain. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Oct 26, 2022 12:22 IST

    Report: Jodhpur RIFF 2022

    The Moonrise session at Jaswant Thada (Jodhpur RIFF/OIJO)
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    Updated on Oct 25, 2022 14:29 IST

    Interview: Ipshita Nath, author, Memsahibs; British Women in Colonial India — ‘They often challenged official narratives’

    Author Ipshita Nath (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Published on Oct 21, 2022 14:07 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    A book on fundamental mathematical concepts, another on the Himalayas, and a third on the many ordinary folk who took part in the struggle for freedom. (HT Team)
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    Published on Oct 21, 2022 14:05 IST

    Review: The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

    Black lives matter: Protesters in Houston, Texas, USA, rally against the murder of George Floyd in this picture dated June 2, 2020. (Adrees Latif/REUTERS)
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    Published on Oct 21, 2022 14:04 IST

    Review: To Raise a Fallen People edited by Rahul Sagar

    Anandibai Joshi, the first Indian woman to become a doctor in modern medicine. Among the highlights of the collection is a speech made in 1883 by Anandibai Joshi. (Caroline Wells Healey Dall/ via Wikimedia Commons)
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    Published on Oct 21, 2022 14:04 IST

    Essay: A tribute to Ismat Chughtai

    Ismat Chughtai in a photograph dated 1st April, 1992. (Babu Ram/HT Photo)
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    Updated on Oct 21, 2022 11:41 IST

    Book Box: The Gifts of Reading

    The Gifts of Reading.
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    Updated on Oct 22, 2022 03:34 IST

    Excerpt: Himalaya by John Keay

    The lure of the Himalayas (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 20, 2022 15:06 IST

    How an ancient astrological book points to the historical date for King Rama

    A Ram Leela performance in Ghaziabad in October 2019. (Sakib Ali/Hindustan Times)
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    Updated on Oct 20, 2022 09:39 IST

    Review: Unparenting by Reema Ahmad

    Parenting is not the simple act of raising a child. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 19, 2022 18:17 IST

    Divya Bhatia: ‘Folk and classical music have much to gain from each other’

    Divya Bhatia, festival director, Jodhpur RIFF (Jodhpur RIFF/OIJO)
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    Updated on Oct 18, 2022 11:38 IST

    Review: Still Life by Anoushka Khan

    An image from Still Life by Anoushka Khan (anoushkakhan.com)
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    Updated on Oct 17, 2022 14:55 IST

    Book Box: The Many Ramayanas

    The Many Ramayanas. 
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    Published on Oct 17, 2022 10:51 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    The reading list this week includes the story of coffee in India, a book that brings to life a three-decade-old murder investigation, and a new biography of the father of India’s Constitution. (HT Team)
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    Published on Oct 14, 2022 18:56 IST

    Interview: Kamila Shamsie, author, Best of Friends -- “I’m not interested in writing a stereotype”

    Author Kamila Shamsie (Alex von Tunzelmann)
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    Published on Oct 14, 2022 18:55 IST

    Neev Literature Festival: Nurturing a love of reading

    A very young reader at the Neev Literature Festival (Courtesy the Neev Literature Festival)
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    Published on Oct 14, 2022 18:53 IST

    Review: India’s Pakistan Conundrum by Sharat Sabharwal

    Author Sharat Sabharwal (R) with former PM of Pakistan, Imran Khan (ANI)
    books
    Published on Oct 14, 2022 18:50 IST

    Chandan Kumar, Screenwriter, Panchayat: ‘Films definitely influence people’

    Chandan Kumar (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Oct 14, 2022 12:42 IST

    Review: You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn

    Kal Penn (L) joins fellow White House staff members at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington on April 13, 2009. (Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS)
    books
    Updated on Oct 13, 2022 14:52 IST

    Review: Akbar of Hindustan by Parvati Sharma

    Fatehpur Sikri, the spectacular city that Akbar built. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 13, 2022 07:48 IST

    Essay: The reader between fiction and non-fiction

    At a bookshop in Gaya. “The reading of fiction is the practice of a unique imaginative empathy that visual media cannot offer.” - Saikat Majumdar (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 12, 2022 16:05 IST
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