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Review: The Maker of Filmmakers by Radha Chadha

Akira Kurosawa (centre) addressing students at FTII. Jagat Murari is at right. (From The Maker of Filmmakers)

Updated 149 days ago

Aparajith Ramnath: “Visvesvaraya’s role has not received enough attention”

Author Aparajith Ramnath (Courtesy the subject)

Updated 188 days ago

Sunetra Choudhury picks her favourite reads of 2025

Abhishek Choudhary’s Believer’s Dilemma (Picador India)

Published 199 days ago

The best books of 2025

Author Arundhati Roy.

Updated 234 days ago

Hema opens up on marrying Dharmendra, his first wife: ‘He was always there…’

Hema Malini's biography reveals the complexities of her marriage to Dharmendra, who was already married to Prakash Kaur at the time.

Published 300 days ago

Charlie Sheen talks about drug abuse, sexual encounters with men in new memoir

US actor Charlie Sheen attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's aka Charlie Sheen in Hollywood, California

Published 310 days ago

Review: Soumitra Chatterjee and his World by Sanghamitra Chakraborty

Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee in Apur Sansar (1959). (Film still)

Published 408 days ago

‘Citizen Correa’, a rich tribute to a beloved architect

Mumbai, India – Nov 04, 2024: Author Mustansir Dalvi in conversation with Kaiwan Mehta on the launch of his latest book on the biography of architect Charles Correa, in Mumbai, India, on Monday, Nov 04, 2024. (Photo by Bhushan Koyande/HT Photo)

Updated 615 days ago

Kate Middleton’s tumultuous year: 5 big revelations from new biography

Prince William- Kate Middleton

Published 617 days ago

Anand Teltumbde’s new book unravels the man behind the Babasaheb Ambedkar

Mumbai, India – Oct 30, 2024: Social Activist and Researcher Anand Teltumbde wrote the book " Iconoclast " A reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, discussion on the new book participated in the panel Prof. Vibhuti Patel, Ramu Ramanathan noted playwright, director, Prof. Rahul Kosambi, Ambedkar Scholar and writer at Press Club, in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024. (Photo by Bhushan Koyande/HT Photo)

Updated 620 days ago

Ratan Tata had doubts about Cyrus Mistry's leadership, reveals new book

Ratan Tata (R) began having second thoughts about Cyrus Mistry even before the latter formally taking over the position.

Published 624 days ago

Why Queen Elizabeth thought Trump had ‘some sort of arrangement’ with Melania

U.S. President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth pose at the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace in London, Britain June 3, 2019.

Published 692 days ago

Meghan Markle to drop ‘ultimate weapon’ in a future book, royal expert claims

Meghan Markle watches her husband Prince Harry play in an exhibition sitting volleyball match, in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, May 11, 2024. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans.

Published 721 days ago

Review: What is Saved by Aamer Hussein

A view of Karachi at night. (Ibrar Kunri/Shutterstock)

Updated 774 days ago

Book Box | Unravelling the art of translation at London’s oldest bookstore

Translators Donald Rayfield, Georgia de Chamberet & Dennis Duncan ( L to R) at Hatchards Piccadilly, London

Published 821 days ago

Movie Review: ‘STEVE! (martin)’ looks at past, present in a lovely, intimate 2-part documentary

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Updated 838 days ago

The many worlds of Elk

A Blind King by Alkazi

Published 849 days ago

Interview: Sahar Zaman, author, Talat Mahmood; The Definitive Biography

An early picture of singer Talat Mahmood

Updated 894 days ago

Akshaya Mukul – “Your job as a biographer is to dig and document, not to judge”

Author Akshaya Mukul (Courtesy the publisher)

Published 898 days ago

US client once made Narayana Murthy sleep on box in storeroom: Book

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Published 918 days ago

Britney Spears claps back after Justin Timberlake touches on cheating scandal

Britney Spears with then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake during an NBA match in 2002. Britney has said in her new memoir that she had an abortion during her relationship with Justin over two decades ago. (File Photo/ AFP)

Updated 940 days ago

HarperCollins presents SHEIKH ABDULLAH - The Caged Lion of Kashmir by Chitralekha Zutshi (The second book in the Indian Lives series)

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Published 944 days ago

Book sheds light on Mallikarjun Kharge’s visionary policies, says Sukhadeo Thorat

Dr Sukhadeo Thorat, the editor of the biography “Mallikarjun Kharge: Political Engagement with Compassion, Justice, and Inclusive Development (Twitter Photo)

Published 957 days ago

Regional groups need to learn from JD(S)’s plight

Senior JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy (left) and former PM HD Deve Gowda (PTI)

Published 973 days ago

Review: Becoming Baba Saheb by Aakash Singh Rathore

Dr BR Ambedkar (HT Photo)

Updated 1003 days ago

Elon Musk biography reveals secret child with Grimes, total of three kids

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo/File Photo

Published 1037 days ago

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s list of interesting reads includes an account of Oppenheimer’s life and times, a book that shows how some of the most important political decisions in independent India were taken, and 16 stories on same sex love and deire translated from Hindi. (HT Team)

Updated 1067 days ago

Artist Sobha Singh’s biography to hit stands on July 9

Through the book, people will get to know about his efforts to revive Dogra and Kangra School of painting with “Kangra Kala Kendr” and “Kangra Kala Utsav”, said Hirday. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated 1108 days ago

MP govt to make biography of Savarkar a part school syllabus

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (Hindustan Times)

Updated 1109 days ago

An unfamiliar portrait of Vajpayee

Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right by Abhishek Choudhary sheds light on the former PM's life

Published 1135 days ago

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