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    Excerpt: Cubbon Park by Roopa Pai: ‘meeting place, sanctuary and thoroughfare’

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    Updated on Oct 11, 2022 12:34 IST
    A Rosy Trumpet Tree or Pink Tabebuia (Tabebuia Avellanedae Rosea) in full bloom in Cubbon Park in Bengaluru, Karnataka on January 05, 2022. (Samuel Rajkumar/Hindustan Times)

    Review: No Way In by Udayan Mukherjee

    The stuff of nightmares: Security personnel in action after unidentified terrorists armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a market at Kokrajhar in Assam in 2016. (PTI)
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    Updated on Oct 10, 2022 15:40 IST

    Review: Deewan-e-Ghalib – Sariir-e-Khaama translated by Najeeb Jung

    Mirza Ghalib (HT Photo)
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    Published on Oct 7, 2022 14:22 IST

    Book Box: Fiction for Economists

    Cents and Sensibility. 
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    Published on Oct 7, 2022 12:35 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    An arresting portrait of the Anglo-Indian community, a young man’s memoir-cum-travelogue, and a book that tells you how to bring about change in a democracy -- all that in this week’s pick of exciting new reads. (HT Team)
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    Published on Oct 7, 2022 11:39 IST

    Review: In the Name of the Lord by Sister Lucy Kalapura

    Nuns crawl on their knees around the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health in Velankanni, Tamil Nadu. (Shutterstock)
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    Published on Oct 7, 2022 11:38 IST

    Interview, David Davidar, publisher Aleph, editor, A Case of Indian Marvels - “These stories will stand the test of time.”

    David Davidar (Rachna Singh)
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    Published on Oct 7, 2022 11:37 IST

    Essay: The accidental volunteer

    In the Chumathang desert in Ladakh.   (Percy Bharucha)
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    Updated on Oct 7, 2022 10:53 IST

    Review: Sisterhood Economy Of, By, For Wo(men) by Shaili Chopra

    Professional women are becoming rarer in India. A 2020 World Bank report shows that India’s female labour force has decreased from 30.27 percent in 1990 to 20.3 percent in 2019. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 6, 2022 14:11 IST

    Review: Honor by Thrity Umrigar

    A young married couple at a government safe house in Rohtak, Haryana in July 2015. Safe houses shelter inter caste and inter faith couples who are in danger of being attacked by their families. (Arun Sharma/Hindustan Times)
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    Published on Oct 6, 2022 09:43 IST

    Interview: Samina Mishra, author, Jamlo Walks

    Author and film maker Samina Mishra. (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Oct 5, 2022 13:12 IST

    Excerpt: The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait of a Community by Barry O’Brien

    A crowd celebrating Christmas at Bow Barracks, a street in Kolkata where many Anglo-Indians live. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 5, 2022 06:31 IST

    Review: The Secret Life of Writers by Guillaume Musso

    A drone view of Cap d’Antibes and Billionaire’s Bay in Côte d’Azur, France. The Secret Life of Writers is set in just such a location. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Oct 3, 2022 13:11 IST

    Int’l Translation Day: Finnish author says not all is lost in translation!

    Author Antti Tuomainen, from Finland, was recently in Delhi for the Long Night of LiteratureS. (Photo: Raajessh Kashyap/HT)
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    Updated on Sep 30, 2022 22:00 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    This week’s list of interesting reads includes a collection of reports on those who practise Gandhian methods of social change, a new edition of a book on Maratha master mariner Kanhoji Angrey, and a volume on why southern India outperforms the rest of the country. (HT Team)
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    Published on Sep 30, 2022 15:46 IST

    Interview: Shaili Chopra, author, Sisterhood Economy: Of, By, For Wo(Men) - “Caste and gender inequality go hand in hand”

    Author Shaili Chopra (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Published on Sep 30, 2022 15:23 IST

    Review: Stories of the True by Jeyamohan

    The real elephant doctor: Dr V Krishnamurthy (ANI)
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    Published on Sep 30, 2022 14:56 IST

    Review: 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny; Last War of Independence by Pramod Kapoor

    The INA trials were front page news and sparked a series of “strikes” within units of the Indian Armed Forces including the Royal Indian Navy. (HT Archive)
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    Published on Sep 30, 2022 14:38 IST

    Book Box: Why read translations

    Translating Myself and Others. 
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    Published on Sep 30, 2022 12:56 IST

    Nitesh Tiwari: ‘I always make films for the audience and not for myself’

    Director and screenwriter Nitesh Tiwari (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Sep 30, 2022 11:58 IST

    Review: Irrfan - Dialogues With the Wind by Anup Singh

    Actor Irrfan Khan (1967-2020) (HT Photo)
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    Published on Sep 30, 2022 07:33 IST

    Essay: Queering translation: Locating queerness in Indian languages

    Members of the LGBTQIA community in Kolkata celebrating on September 6, 2018 after the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised gay sex. (Samir Jana/HT PHOTO)
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    Updated on Sep 29, 2022 12:33 IST

    Kamala Subramaniam: An epic life well-served

    Artists performing at a Ramlila in New Delhi. (Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times)
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    Updated on Sep 28, 2022 13:14 IST

    Excerpt: Being the Change: In the Footsteps of the Mahatma

    Dr Prakash and Mandakini Amte at the confluence of three rivers at Bhamragad in a picture dated 14 August 2008. (Manoj Patil/HT Photo)
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    Updated on Sep 27, 2022 14:52 IST

    Review: Open Book: Not Quite a Memoir by Kubbra Sait

    Kubbra Sait, in her breakout role as Cuckoo, with Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Sacred Games. (Still from Netflix series Sacred Games)
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    Updated on Sep 27, 2022 09:05 IST

    Book Box: The Things They Carried

    Books by September born authors. 
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    Published on Sep 25, 2022 14:05 IST

    Review: Indian Media Giants; Unveiling the Business Dynamics of Print Legacies by Surbhi Dahiya

    Journalists at work in a contemporary newsroom. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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    Published on Sep 23, 2022 17:53 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    The reading list this week includes the translation of a powerful hymn to Shakti, the femal principle, a collection of essays that looks at the continuing relevance of MK Gandhi’s ideas, and the lectures of a prominent figure in 19th century princely India. (HT Team)
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    Published on Sep 23, 2022 17:44 IST

    Interview: Rahman Abbas, author, Rohzin – ‘When you write about love, sex is inseparable’

    Author Rahman Abbas (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Updated on Sep 23, 2022 17:55 IST

    The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki

    An engraved illustration of Indian snake charmers in an edition of Le Magasin Pittoresque, 1875. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Sep 24, 2022 08:48 IST
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