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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
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
Published on Mar 13, 2024 08:58 PM IST
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
Published on Mar 13, 2024 07:03 PM IST
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?
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
Published on Mar 12, 2024 09:16 PM IST
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
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 05:32 AM IST
Book Box | When I see a woman read
From stolen moments to public shields, the many meanings of a woman with a book
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
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
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
Updated on Mar 08, 2024 10:52 PM IST
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
Updated on Mar 08, 2024 10:39 PM IST
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
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
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
Updated on Mar 07, 2024 03:02 PM IST
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
Published on Mar 05, 2024 08:46 PM IST
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
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
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
Updated on Mar 02, 2024 09:08 AM IST
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
Updated on Mar 02, 2024 05:26 AM IST
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
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
Updated on Mar 01, 2024 10:53 PM IST
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
Published on Mar 01, 2024 10:51 PM IST
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
Updated on Feb 29, 2024 07:16 PM IST
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
Published on Feb 28, 2024 03:30 PM IST
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
Published on Feb 27, 2024 05:29 PM IST
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
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
Updated on Feb 26, 2024 10:08 PM IST
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
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
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
Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:24 AM IST