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HT Picks; New Reads

Published on Jul 3, 2026 21:36 IST

On the reading list this week is a book on how an everyday digital reflex has deepened inequality, an account of the immediate period after independence, and a novel on the horrors of displacement (Amit Sharma)

Juhea Kim: “Through beauty, we can make people care again”

Author Juhea Kim (Ubud Writers & Readers Festival)

Published on Jul 3, 2026 21:34 IST

Report: Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers’ Workshop 2026

Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, Tracy K Smith at the Himalayan Literature Festival in Kathmandu. (Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers’ Workshop)

Published on Jul 3, 2026 21:32 IST

Review: Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir and the Mughal Empire by Munis D Faruqui

Portrait of Aurangzeb by (perhaps) Bichitr. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Jul 3, 2026 21:30 IST

Ruhr: from industrial graveyard to green urban lab

The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, a reworked industrial space in Germany’s Ruhr. (Veidehi Gite)

Updated on Jul 3, 2026 08:34 IST

Siân Hughes: “Middle-aged women are invisiblised all over the world”

Author Siân Hughes (Stretton Studios)

Published on Jul 2, 2026 14:27 IST

Reading the world: On destination book clubs

Istanbul (Courtesy Expedia)

Updated on Jul 1, 2026 16:45 IST

Review: Slow Burn by Amal Singh

Amal Singh’s Slow Burn plays with the doppelganger trope even as it evokes nostalgia for the old Bollywood masala film. Above, a scene from Don (2006) (Film still)

Published on Jul 1, 2026 13:53 IST

Shunali Khullar Shroff: “I need a wife”

Author Shunali Khullar Shroff (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Jun 30, 2026 15:44 IST

Mehdi Khawaja: “A generation or two of Kashmiris did not study Kashmiri”

Translator Mehdi Khawaja (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 29, 2026 10:15 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a story about childhood, a novel about a hyper-masculine society, and a Japanese bestseller (Amit Sharma)

Published on Jun 26, 2026 17:24 IST

Lily Kelting: “There are feminist ways to run a kitchen”

Author Lily Kelting (Courtesy Flame University)

Published on Jun 26, 2026 17:23 IST

Review: The Ashes Are Warm by Mahesh Bhatt

Actor Sanjay Dutt and Director Mahesh Bhatt on the sets of Saatwan Aasman (1992) (HT Photo)

Published on Jun 26, 2026 17:22 IST

Review: Wild Capital by Neha Sinha

A view of the Qutub Minar in the distance from Sanjay Van, a reserve forest in New Delhi. (Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)

Published on Jun 26, 2026 17:22 IST

Review: Thyme Travellers edited by Sonia Sulaiman

Smoke rises above buildings after air strikes by Israeli warplanes in Gaza City, on May 10, 2023. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jun 24, 2026 15:17 IST

Review: Consumerism in World History by Peter N Stearns

The Khan El-Khalili Bazaar in Cairo, Egypt. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jun 23, 2026 11:10 IST

Neha Sinha: “Your life is less rich if you’ve never known what a firefly is”

Author Neha Sinha (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Jun 23, 2026 10:56 IST

Anita Ratnam: “The market economy in the performing arts is like a cannibal”

Classical dancer and choreographer Anita Ratnam (Screenshot from the Mastery series)

Updated on Jun 23, 2026 10:54 IST

Review: Love Is Participation In Eternity by Udayan Vajpeyi

The reading life: The Asiatic Society library in Mumbai. (Hemant Padalkar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Published on Jun 20, 2026 08:26 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is an intimate social history of Pakistan in the 1950s, a rare eyewitness account of British India’s war against Japan, and a history of Singhbhum’s tribal societies under British rule. (Amit Sharma)

Published on Jun 20, 2026 24:18 IST

Jonathan Miles: “Writing, at its core, is a sonic exercise”

Author Jonathan Miles (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jun 20, 2026 24:12 IST

Review: Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy by PC Saidalavi

A barber in Malappuram, Kerala cutting hair during the Covid lockdown in 2021. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jun 20, 2026 24:06 IST

Kalapini Komkali: “When you truly listen, you listen also to what is unsaid”

Classical vocalist Kalapini Komkali (Courtesy The Sacred Amritsar Festival)

Updated on Jun 19, 2026 07:55 IST

Of murders, wrinkles and clever crows

Crow in a strong wind (Prerna Jain)

Updated on Jun 18, 2026 19:23 IST

Review: Why I Killed My Husband by Anita Nair

People wade through flooded water near Wazirabad Colony in New Delhi on September 06, 2025. Anita Nair’s Why I Killed My Husband is inspired by contemporary issues and has stories that touch on everything from demonetisation to farmers’ agitations, CAA protests and urban floods. (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)

Published on Jun 18, 2026 08:44 IST

GauZ: “If you don’t have style, don’t write”

Author Armand Patrick Gbaka-Brédé also known as GauZ (Kerala Literature Festival)

Updated on Jun 16, 2026 11:13 IST

Anurag Minus Verma: “You’ll never see influencers making political statements”

Author Anurag Minus Verma (Kerala Literature Festival)

Updated on Jun 15, 2026 16:39 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a collection of poems, the new edition of a Tagore biography, and a book on a performance art from Kerala (Amit Sharma)

Published on Jun 12, 2026 23:40 IST

Vinod Kaul: “No biography can fully capture a life”

Author Vinod Kaul (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jun 12, 2026 23:34 IST

Review: Bismillah and Other Stories by Manto, translated by Rakshanda Jalil

Author Saadat Hasan Manto (Courtesy Aleph)

Published on Jun 12, 2026 23:24 IST

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