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    HT Picks; New Reads

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    Published on Sep 23, 2022 17:44 IST
    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)

    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

    Filmmaker, Chup, R Balki: In films, whoever succeeds is just luckier than others

    R Balki (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Sep 23, 2022 06:35 IST

    Meena Kandasamy on winning the Hermann Kesten Prize for 2022

    Meena Kandasamy (Varun Vasudev)
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    Updated on Sep 22, 2022 12:22 IST

    Bashir Badr: Crying without tears

    Urdu poet Bashir Badr at a mushaira in the 1990s. (Courtesy the Badr family)
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    Updated on Sep 21, 2022 10:19 IST

    Review: All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

    Alone in a crowd. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Sep 21, 2022 09:40 IST

    Excerpt: Inheriting Gandhi: Influences, Activisms

    Mahatma Gandhi in Noakhali, Assam, during the Partition riots of 1947. (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Sep 20, 2022 12:55 IST

    Review: The Element of Fog by Boudhayan Sen

    The Shervaroyan hill range in the Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Sep 19, 2022 13:00 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    A book on how China was transformed into the world superpower it is today, another that narrates the last books of the Mahabharata, and a volume in which Nature Conservation Foundation scientists talk about their remarkable work. (HT Team)
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    Published on Sep 16, 2022 12:02 IST

    Interview: Karen M McManus, Author, Nothing More to Tell - “I write with my teen readers in mind”

    Author Karen M McManus (Courtesy the publisher)
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    Updated on Sep 19, 2022 09:30 IST

    Review: Land, Guns, Caste, Woman; The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary by Gita Ramaswamy

    Gita Ramaswamy in Ibrahimpatnam in the mid-1980s. (Courtesy Navayana)
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    Published on Sep 16, 2022 12:00 IST

    Review: Furrows in a Field; The Unexplored Life of HD Deve Gowda by Sugata Srinivasaraju

    Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda with South African President Dr Nelson Mandela at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on 28 March 1997. (HT Photo)
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    Published on Sep 16, 2022 11:59 IST

    Book Box: The secret life of democracies

    M R Madhavan, founder, PRS Legislative Research. 
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    Updated on Sep 16, 2022 10:49 IST

    Jasmeet K Reen, director, Darlings: ‘You don’t make a film to change the world’

    Jasmeet K Reen (Courtesy the subject)
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    Updated on Sep 16, 2022 05:47 IST

    Dipankar Goswamy, RaagRang Project: ‘What does music look like?’

    The depiction of a sitar-surbahar duet of Raag Chandani Kedar by Ustad Vilayat Khan and Ustad Imrat Khan brings in an imaginary story around the Taj Mahal. (RaagRang)
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    Updated on Sep 15, 2022 12:16 IST

    Review: The Middle - A Story of Love, Life and Laughter by Nayana Goradia

    Classic combination: Newspapers and coffee at the India Coffee House in New Delhi in the 1960s. (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Sep 15, 2022 11:23 IST

    Excerpt: At the Feet of Living Things

    A dugong probably much like the one the author encountered. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Sep 15, 2022 06:46 IST

    Essay: Of Bharat, India and Hindustan

    Visitors on Kartavya Path on September 10, 2022. (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)
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    Updated on Sep 13, 2022 16:56 IST

    Review: In Free Fall by Mallika Sarabhai

    Farooque Shaikh and Mallika Sarabhai in Katha (1983). (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Sep 12, 2022 16:52 IST

    Book Box: How to raise a reader

    Children reading. 
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    Updated on Sep 12, 2022 03:07 IST

    Review: Recalibrate by NK Singh, With Select Insights from PK Mishra

    Prime Minister Morarji Desai (centre) at a Panchayat Parishad meeting on 19 December 1978. Panchayati Raj institutions began to gain importance in the 1970s. (SN Sinha/HT Photo)
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    Published on Sep 9, 2022 12:08 IST

    Interview: Mallika Sarabhai, author, In Free Fall: My Experiments with Living – “Every human with a heart should speak up for Bilkis”

    Mallika Sarabhai (Jayanti Sagra)
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    Published on Sep 9, 2022 12:07 IST

    Review: Sanjeev Kumar; The Actor We All Loved by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Uday Jariwala

    Sanjeev Kumar (left) and David Abraham Cheulkar in Yehi Hai Zindagi. (HT Photo)
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    Published on Sep 9, 2022 12:05 IST

    HT Picks; New Reads

    A story of mothers, a novel about a 1980s Indian adolescence, and a book about the history of fountain pens in India -- all that on this week’s reading list. (HT Picks)
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    Published on Sep 9, 2022 12:05 IST

    Review: Amitava Nag's The Cinema of Tapan Sinha – An Introduction

    A still from Tapan Sinha’s Kabuliwala (1957). (HT Photo)
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    Updated on Sep 9, 2022 11:09 IST

    Review: Read Dangerously; The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi

    Azar Nafisi’s book encourages individuals to ask hitherto unasked questions despite the costs. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Sep 8, 2022 13:25 IST

    Leila Mottley, author: ‘I will keep writing stories about black girls and women’

    Author Leila Mottley (Magdalena Frigo)
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    Updated on Sep 9, 2022 05:12 IST

    Excerpt: True to Their Salt by Ravindra Rathee

    Indian Army men fighting at Flanders in 1914-15. (Indian Army photograph / Wikimedia Commons)
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    Updated on Sep 7, 2022 10:12 IST

    Review: Dava Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti

    “Idle Hour”, the William K Vanderbilt Mansion in Bohemia, New York. It’s probably much like the one Dava Shastri lives in. (Shutterstock)
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    Updated on Sep 5, 2022 14:40 IST
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