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Alam-Ara turns 93

Updated on Mar 15, 2024 09:06 AM IST

The inclusion of song and dance, elements of romantic drama, a multicultural crew and cast... India’s first talkie was a herald of things to come for the Hindi film industry

Zubeida in India's first talkie, Alam Ara, which was released on 14th March 1931 at Majestic Theatre in Bombay. (HT Photo)
ByNilosree Biswas

Antonia Lloyd-Jones - “Olga does all sorts of things for all sorts of people”

The award-winning translator of the works of many of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists talks about translating Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s books

Translator Antonia Lloyd Jones (Susan Bernofsky)
Published on Mar 13, 2024 08:58 PM IST
ByAmrita Talwar

Review: Your Utopia by Bora Chung

In the eight stories in this collection, Bora Chung’s characters live with hope in a world that dares not dream of it, yet desperately needs it

The titular story follows a sentient automobile on an alien planet. (Shutterstock)
Published on Mar 13, 2024 07:03 PM IST
ByAreeb Ahmad

A book by a political scientist on chaos, black swans and the butterfly theory

In Fluke, author Brian Klaas brings up a question: If life is indeed all chaos and chance, how do we believe that everything we do matters?

Brian Klaas(Courtesy: HachetteIndia)
Published on Mar 13, 2024 06:10 PM IST

Past Lives, Three of Us & 96: Film and Undying Love

A look at three films that attempt to understand the simultaneous existence of many versions of an individual and the possibility of loving those different versions

Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives (Film still)
Published on Mar 12, 2024 09:16 PM IST
ByNeeraja Srinivasan

Ankon Mitra – “Paper had to sing and dance in a fundamental way in this show”

The architect and pioneer of paper art, who curated the spectacular ‘On Paper - Of Paper’ talks about the evolution and revolution of paper art in India

Ankon Mitra with his work ‘Mycelium Mycelium’ at India Design ID. (Courtesy the artist)
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 05:32 AM IST
ByShireen Quadri

Book Box | When I see a woman read

From stolen moments to public shields, the many meanings of a woman with a book

A woman reads a book(Author)
Published on Mar 09, 2024 09:00 PM IST

Review: The Past is Never Dead by Ujjal Dosanjh

A debut novel that packs in a good overview of Punjab’s caste history as it is transposed into the settlements of second and third generation Punjabis in the UK

A scene in Regent Street, London, in June 2022 during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd’s accession to the throne. (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 06:36 AM IST

Karen Powell - “I feel drawn to Emily Bronte’s untamed spirit”

The author of Fifteen Wild Decembers on her evocative reimagination of Emily Brontë’s life narrated in the 19th century novelist’s own voice

Author Karen Powell (Courtesy the subject)
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 05:00 AM IST

Review: H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit

Combining reportage and extensive interviews to examine the connection between the incendiary lyrics of Hindutva pop songs and anti-minority violence

Hindutva supporters dancing in Gurugram. (Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Mar 08, 2024 10:52 PM IST
ByDeepansh Duggal

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on how Gorkhas have come to be treated as outsiders, a collection of poems to brighten every day, and a volume that looks at how India’s digital revolution offers the keys to cracking open its market

On the reading list this week is a book on the status of Gorkhas in India today, a poetry anthology, and a volume that looks at how India’s digital revolution can open its market (HT Team)
Updated on Mar 08, 2024 10:39 PM IST
ByHT Team

The Beast: All the lives we never lived

In Bertrand Bonello’s feature film, an almost-romance spanning centuries, Gabrielle and Louis, played by Lea Seydoux and George Mackay, are reincarnated as doomed lovers, always living under a shadow of a looming disaster

George Mackay and Lea Seydoux in The Beast (Film still)
Published on Mar 08, 2024 08:14 PM IST

Shenaz Treasury - “Marriage was invented when people lived till 35”

During a conversation at the Kerala Literature Festival, the actor and travel influencer spoke about her new book about learning from her breakups

Actor and author Shenaz Treasury (Courtesy the subject)
Published on Mar 07, 2024 09:16 PM IST

Review: Outlive; The Science and Art of Longevity

A tool book on how to live a long, meaningful, and fulfilling life, Outlive is a manifesto on staying young even as we grow older

Longevity involves overcoming the fear of dying (Shutterstock)
Updated on Mar 07, 2024 03:02 PM IST
BySudhirendar Sharma

Report: Kolkata People’s Film Festival

Organised by the People’s Film Collective, the event that’s now in its tenth year, as always, showcased contemporary politically committed work emerging from South Asia

Arundhati Roy in conversation with Kasturi Basu at the Kolkata People’s Film Festival (Courtesy KPFF)
Published on Mar 05, 2024 08:46 PM IST
ByChittajit Mitra

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez - “Poetry helps me to live”

During an interview conducted at the Mumbai Poetry Festival, Núñez spoke about the racism against Latin Americans in the US, and poetry’s power to oppose

Cuban poet Victor Rodriguez Nunez reading out his work at the Mumbai Poetry Festival 2024 (Courtesy the Mumbai Poetry Festival)
Published on Mar 04, 2024 09:33 PM IST

Book Box | Letter from Banaras

This bookish journey in Banaras includes tea with friends, tales of the Doms, and Mirza Ghalib's poetic tribute

Harmony BookStore, Banaras(Author)
Published on Mar 02, 2024 10:47 PM IST

The flaneur in Mumbai

Walking along the coast from Versova to Bandra reveals a city that plays and picnics on the sandy beaches, picks clams on its rocky ones, cuddles on piers, and lives in close-knit fishing villages

Kartik Aaryan: A film star in the crowd heading to Versova pier. (Suhit Bombaywala)
Updated on Mar 02, 2024 09:08 AM IST
BySuhit Bombaywala

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a collection of Sanskrit love poetry, a book on the India Museum that contributed in major ways to the representation of India for a European audience, and an introduction to the major writers from Australia

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of Sanskrit love poetry, a book on the India Museum and how it contributed to the representation of the country for a European audience, and an introduction to Australia’s important authors. (HT Team)
Updated on Mar 02, 2024 05:26 AM IST
ByHT Team

Manju Kapur – “Artists cannot create meaningful works if they are not free”

The author of The Gallery on censorship, making the Indian art world the subject of her new novel, and how her Buddhist practice helps her writing

Author Manju Kapur (Courtesy the publisher)
Published on Mar 01, 2024 10:55 PM IST

Review: The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao by Lindsay Pereira

A crisp novel, an adaptation of the Ramayana set in riot-struck 1990s Bombay, tells the story of contemporary India

Firemen attempt to stop fires raging in Malad, Mumbai, on January 13, 1993. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
Updated on Mar 01, 2024 10:53 PM IST
BySyed Saad Ahmed

Review: Nationalism in the Vernacular by Roluahpuia

A look at the insurgency in Mizoram, that lasted for two decades until 1986, and how the oral culture of the Mizos played a positive role in their emergence as a people

A picture taken in Mizoram on 05 September 1967. (HT Photo.)
Published on Mar 01, 2024 10:51 PM IST
ByThangkhanlal Ngaihte

Review: Playing Games by Huma Qureshi

A novel that follows two sisters and an unravelling marriage examines what it means to have a family and also the setbacks that families can bring

Life and heartbreak in London (Shutterstock)
Updated on Feb 29, 2024 07:16 PM IST
ByRahul Singh

Ranjana Kaul – “We still have to work a lot on issues of caste and patriarchy”

Lawyer Ranjana Kaul, Laxmibai Abhyankar's granddaughter, talks about translating and presenting a collection of stories in The Stepmother and Other Stories

Ranjana Kaul has translated The Stepmother and Other Stories by Laxmibai Abhyankar (Courtesy the subject)
Published on Feb 28, 2024 03:30 PM IST
ByChittajit Mitra

On the cultural festival, ‘Meer ki Dilli, Shahjahanabad: The Evolving City’

The four-day event, which celebrated the tercentenary of the Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir, traced how the idea of Delhi has evolved through the ages

(From left) Saif Mahmood, Ather Farooqui, Salman Khurshid, Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah. (Courtesy Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind))
Published on Feb 27, 2024 05:29 PM IST
BySimar Bhasin

Review: The Seaweed Revolution by Vincent Doumeizel

A deep dive into the marine world, this extensively-researched book lays out the potential of seaweed to save the planet

Seaweed farms in Paje, Zanzibar (Shutterstock)
Updated on Feb 27, 2024 05:27 PM IST

Essay: Stray dogs and the curse of anthroparchal logic

With the idea of free-roaming animals suddenly being seen as a mark of an uncivilised society, violence directed at dogs and those who feed them has been spiralling in urban India

Mumbai, India - May 26, 2022: A dog lover feeds kulfi to a street dog in the afternoon during the hot summer at Bandra, in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, May 26, 2022. (Photo by Vijay Bate/HT Photo) (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Feb 26, 2024 10:08 PM IST
ByLamat R Hasan

JLF 2024: United by stories

This year’s edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival was attended by a range of celebrated authors from Paul Lynch and Georgi Gospodinov to Perumal Murugan, Shyam Selvadurai and Kai Bird. This ability to gather some of the finest minds from around the world under one roof remains the festival’s unique selling proposition

The session on community libraries featuring Rituparna Neog (centre left) and Mridula Koshy (centre right). (JLF 2024)
Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:34 AM IST

David Yang - “It was like translating film subtitles or poetry”

The translator of Japanese artist duo Nishioka Kyodai’s ‘Kafka: A Manga Adaptation’ talks about hybrid translation and Kafka’s influence on Japanese literature

David Yang (Courtesy Pushkin Press)
Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:30 AM IST

Mir and modernity

Even as cultural festivals earlier this month celebrated Mir Taqi Mir’s tercentenary, a look at why, unlike Ghalib and Iqbal, this 18th century Urdu poet, so closely connected with Delhi, has remained relatively understudied, uncelebrated, and unread

A portrait of Mir (Wikimedia Commons)
Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:24 AM IST
ByMahmood Farooqui
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