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Book to screen: One Battle After Another

Updated on Mar 16, 2026 11:36 AM IST

Jose Antonio Garcia, from left, Florencia Martin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cassandra Kulukundis, Regina Hall, Shayna McHale, Teyana Taylor, Michael Bauman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Anthony Carlino, Will Weike, Sara Murphy, Chase Infiniti, Christopher Scarabosio, and Andy Jurgensen accept the award for best picture award for "One Battle After Another" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a novel on the colonial race to explore in the nineteenth century, another set in contemporary Pakistan, and a volume on Malabar Islam (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Mar 13, 2026 10:04 PM IST

Leo Varadkar: “It is easier to be an activist than to be a politician”

Leo Varadkar (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Mar 13, 2026 10:02 PM IST

Review: The Second Marriage of Kunju Namboodiri & Other Classic Malayalam Stories

An Ottan Thullal dancer moving to gramophone music in Trivandrum, Kerala in 1929. (E. O. Hoppe/Getty Images)

Published on Mar 13, 2026 10:00 PM IST

Review: The Moment of the Banyan by Armin Wandrewala

Members of the Parsi community celebrating the 193rd anniversary of the Godavara Gamadia Agairy at Fort in Mumbai in December 2019. (Anshuman Poyrekar/ Hindustan Times)

Published on Mar 13, 2026 9:58 PM IST

Report: Jaigarh Heritage Festival

The standout performance at the Jaigarh Heritage Festival was The Manganiyar Seduction directed by Roysten Abel. A display of Rajasthani folk music at its finest, the production consisted of more than 40 musicians who performed with such theatrical flair that the audience was on its feet throughout. (Courtesy Jaigarh Heritage Festival)

Updated on Mar 13, 2026 1:00 PM IST

Review: Into the Uncut Grass by Trevor Noah

Comedian and author Trevor Noah (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 12, 2026 12:58 PM IST

Remembering Bill sa’ab, the ace travel writer

A view of the Nanda Devi from Auli in Uttarakhand. (Shutterstock)

Published on Mar 12, 2026 12:17 PM IST

‘Cromwell’s Spy’ Review: A Schemer in the Shadows

The book’s narrative is accessible and brisk, delivered in easy prose and a light, journalistic style with sprightly turns of phrase.

Updated on Mar 12, 2026 7:29 AM IST

The woman rewriting Australian history, one walk at a time

Australian author and historian Sita Sargeant. (Martin Ollman)

Updated on Mar 12, 2026 2:43 AM IST

Review: Sonny Boy by Al Pacino

Al Pacino as Michael Corleone on a postage stamp (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 10, 2026 3:41 PM IST

Santosh Desai: “The smartphone allows people to perform their individuality”

Santosh Desai, author, Memes for Mummyji (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Mar 10, 2026 12:52 AM IST

‘Themistocles’ Review: Loyalty Sullied By Ambition

The Athenian navy, over which Themistocles held sway, had its own democratic turn. In the lull between the Battle of Marathon in 490 and the renewed Persian assault in 480, Themistocles appears to have persuaded the Athenians to use a newly discovered vein of silver to fund a massive expansion of the navy.

Updated on Mar 9, 2026 6:43 AM IST

Book Box: A reader in New York

Morgan Library, New York

Updated on Mar 9, 2026 12:17 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on why the pursuit of excellence is integral to well-being, and a creative biography of the last female impersonator of Bengali theatre. (Akash Shrivastav)

Updated on Mar 7, 2026 6:29 PM IST

Suvir Saran: “Loss rearranges the furniture of the soul”

Chef and author Suvir Saran (Rainbow Literature Festival)

Published on Mar 6, 2026 9:34 PM IST

Report: Kerala Literature Festival, 2026

Abdul Razak Gurnah (centre) and Kiran Desai (right) in conversation with Anindita Ghose at KLF 2026. (Kerala Literature Festival)

Published on Mar 6, 2026 9:32 PM IST

Review: Civil-Military Fusion as a Metric of National Power... by Raj Shukla

An Indian Army battalion practising for the Republic Day parade. (Shutterstock)

Published on Mar 6, 2026 5:29 PM IST

Report: The Shillong Literary Festival

Sanjoy Hazarika (left) and Shehan Karunatilaka at the Shillong Literary Festival. (Shillong Literary Festival)

Updated on Mar 6, 2026 9:59 AM IST

Six books to read about Iran

Composite file photo of US President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei who was assassinated on February 28.

Updated on Mar 6, 2026 5:00 AM IST

Review: The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

(From left) Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Celia Imrie in The Thursday Murder Club. (Courtesy Netflix)

Updated on Mar 5, 2026 9:54 AM IST

Review: The Dead Fish by Rajkamal Choudhary

Manhattan in the 1960s. “Born in a village in the Saharsa district of Bihar, Rajkamal Choudhary, who never went to the United States, astonishingly created characters who walked the streets of Manhattan.” (Shutterstock)

Published on Mar 4, 2026 1:56 PM IST

Sindhu Rajasekaran: “The idea of queerness is always in”

Author Sindhu Rajasekaran (Sushant Desai/Aleph)

Published on Mar 3, 2026 5:02 PM IST

Dhiraj Rabha: “My life is not just a personal memory but a political condition”

Artist Dhiraj Rabha with his work, The Quiet Weight of Shadows at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2026, at Coir Godown, Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi. (Courtesy Kochi Biennale Foundation)

Published on Mar 2, 2026 8:09 AM IST

Book Box: My AI Fiction Reading List

AI Fiction Reading List

Updated on Mar 1, 2026 10:09 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that describes what happened in Manipur from within the Kuki-Zomi/Mizo experience, another that presents reportage on the pandemic, and a volume on the rock-cut temples at Ellora (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Feb 27, 2026 10:40 PM IST

Tom Freston: “I like being on the edge”

Author Tom Freston (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Feb 27, 2026 10:38 PM IST

Report: Jaipur Literature Festival 2026

(From left) Esther Freud, Tash Aw, Kiran Desai, Richard Flanagan and Anuradha Roy at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2026. (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Feb 27, 2026 10:32 PM IST

Review: The Essential Mir by Anisur Rahman

A portrait of Mir Taqi Mir circa 1786. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Feb 27, 2026 10:22 PM IST

Review: Tagore Never Ate Here by Mohammad Nazim Uddin

The novel’s villain lives in a home much like this one! (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 7:19 AM IST

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