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Jonathan Gil Harris: “Whether we like it or not, we are all syncretic”

Published on Jul 13, 2026 07:52 pm IST

Author Jonathan Gil Harris (Courtesy Aleph)

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes the story of a woman’s search for self realisation after her husband is outed as a sexual harasser, a collection of Emily Eden’s mid-19th century lithographs of India, and an ascetic’s 1898 account of travelling across the high Himalayas (Amit Sharma)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:06 am IST

Tara Menon: “People don’t stay in friendships if they don’t want to”

Author Tara Menon (Lauren Crothers)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:04 am IST

Review: The Bengali Reader,Edited and translated by Arunava Sinha

A still from the Bengali film Jana Aranya (1976) by Satyajit Ray. (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:02 am IST

Review: The Durian Flavour by Gurjit Singh

A scene from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:00 am IST

In the Welsh town that became a City of Literature

A view of Aberystwyth (Courtesy Visit Wales)

Updated on Jul 10, 2026 03:13 pm IST

Deepta Roy Chakraverti: “Strong willed women can achieve anything”

Author Deepta Roy Chakraverti (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jul 10, 2026 03:20 pm IST

Review: The Dark-Coloured Waters by Danesh Rana

A bridge over the Chenab in Himachal Pradesh (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 09, 2026 01:22 pm IST

Martin Goodman: “I see myself as a cultural translator”

Author Martin Goodman at the Kerala Literature Festival in January 2026. (Kerala Literature Festival)

Updated on Jul 08, 2026 07:51 pm IST

Shape of Momo: of home staying and leaving

Gaumaya Gurung in Shape of Momo (Film still)

Published on Jul 07, 2026 01:17 pm IST

Jo Harkin: “The Middle Ages was full of bold and irreverent voices”

Author Jo Harkin (J Robaczynski)

Updated on Jul 06, 2026 03:42 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

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)

Published on Jul 04, 2026 03:06 am IST

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

Author Juhea Kim (Ubud Writers & Readers Festival)

Published on Jul 04, 2026 03:04 am 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 04, 2026 03:02 am IST

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

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

Published on Jul 04, 2026 03:00 am 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 03, 2026 02:04 pm IST

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

Author Siân Hughes (Stretton Studios)

Published on Jul 02, 2026 07:57 pm IST

Reading the world: On destination book clubs

Istanbul (Courtesy Expedia)

Updated on Jul 01, 2026 10:15 pm 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 01, 2026 07:23 pm IST

Shunali Khullar Shroff: “I need a wife”

Author Shunali Khullar Shroff (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Jun 30, 2026 09:14 pm IST

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

Translator Mehdi Khawaja (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 29, 2026 03:45 pm 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 10:54 pm IST

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

Author Lily Kelting (Courtesy Flame University)

Published on Jun 26, 2026 10:53 pm 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 10:52 pm 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 10:52 pm 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 08:47 pm IST

Review: Consumerism in World History by Peter N Stearns

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

Published on Jun 23, 2026 04:40 pm 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 04:26 pm 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 04:24 pm 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 01:56 pm IST

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