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Review: The Continents Between by Bani Basu

First published nearly four decades ago in the original Bangla, this complex novel that traverses an expansive canvas of time and place, is striking for how urgently relevant it still feels

A scene in Calcutta in the 1980s. (Jayant Das/HT Archive)

books

Published on Nov 06, 2024 07:44 PM IST

ByAnushree Nande

How false memories influence our sense of self and collective experience

Memory shapes our identity through both real and false recollections. False memories can feel just as authentic as true experiences.

Memory can be a blend of real and false experiences, impacting our identity. (Pixabay)

lifestyle

Published on Sep 24, 2024 05:51 PM IST

Deutsche Welle | | Posted by Akanksha Agnihotri

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a collection of essays that sheds light on the complex fabric of identity in Northeast India, a tribute to poet and author Keki N Daruwalla, and writings by Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl on how to find meaning and fulfilment

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes essays on identity in Northeast India, a tribute to a poet and author, and the writings of Viktor Frankl (HT Team)

books

Updated on Aug 16, 2024 10:37 PM IST

ByHT Team

Note what you’d expect: A photobook zooms in on Meghalaya’s indie musicians

See how photographer Anurag Banerjee’s search for home and identity led him to explore the struggles, songs and universal experiences of these artists.

Khasi music group Ka Sur Na Nongkyndong, as photographed by Anurag Banerjee for the book The Songs of our People.

lifestyle

Updated on Jul 26, 2024 02:40 PM IST

ByBhanuj Kappal

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is an intimate portrait of a city with a troubled past and an unsettled present, a book of tales from the Mahabharata that delivers instructions on life, death and everything in between, and a volume that presenting a lesser known aspect of Indian art history

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a portrait of an often troubled city, tales from the Mahabharata that deliver instructions on life, and a well produced volume that presents a lesser known aspect of Indian art history (HT Team)

books

Published on Jul 19, 2024 07:40 PM IST

ByHT Team

Capturing curriculum to sculpt young minds

All schools are passionate about shaping young minds. Popular ideas and ideologies actively use schools to intellectually sculpt young minds

Mumbai, India - June 15, 2024: Children enjoy on the first day of school at Madhavrao Bhagvat High School, Vile Parle in Mumbai, India, on Saturday, June 15, 2024. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

opinion

Updated on Jun 19, 2024 02:20 AM IST

ByKrishna Kumar

Review: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

A novel that chalks out the protagonist’s identity crisis to minutely observe Iranian-American angst and dissonance in ideas of nationhood

books

Updated on May 31, 2024 07:17 PM IST

ByRahul Singh

What June 4 will tell us about India

The verdict will reveal what voters think of Narendra Modi, the depth of a Hindu political identity, and the nature of economic sentiment

Voters queue up to cast their ballots at a polling station during the sixth phase of voting in India's general election in New Delhi on May 25, 2024. India is voting in seven phases over six weeks to ease the immense logistical burden of staging an election in the world's most populous country. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)(AFP)

opinion

Published on May 28, 2024 09:33 PM IST

ByPrashant Jha

‘Will vote for a society free of bias where all can coexist peacefully’

18 million people will vote for the first time in 2024. In a series, HT looks at their issues, hopes, grouses

india news

Updated on May 24, 2024 07:24 AM IST

ByAheli Das

Shun silence, protect Jammu and Kashmir’s identity, Mehbooba Mufti urges voters

Mehbooba Mufti’s younger colleague and the party’s Srinagar constituency candidate, Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, meanwhile, urged youth to use their vote as a referendum

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti addressing the public during a roadshow in Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. (PTI)

cities

Updated on Apr 21, 2024 06:50 AM IST

ByAshiq Hussain, Srinagar

HistoriCity | Mysore's logo is a new city's nod at its old, complex history

Beyond the tiger claw and the Mysore sandal soap, the city's history is filled with the symbols of good governance, wars and anti-colonial pride

analysis

Published on Apr 05, 2024 11:35 PM IST

ByValay Singh

Patna rape-murder: Cops make first arrest, say case cracked

On January 9, one of the two girls was found dead in a field at Hinduni village while another was found lying unconscious nearby.

Police personnel at the crime scene inn Phulwari Sharif area in Patna. (PTI)

cities

Published on Jan 12, 2024 09:21 PM IST

ByAvinash Kumar, Patna

Parliament security breach: Karnataka Speaker urges MLAs to scrutinize visitors

Security has been beefed up on the premises of the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha and stringent procedures are being followed to issue passes for visitors

Karnataka assembly Speaker UT Khader on Thursday urged MLAs to issue passes after scrutinising the identity of the people seeking to visit the House. (HT Archives)

india news

Updated on Dec 15, 2023 08:39 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Bengaluru:

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book that attempts to highlight what has gone wrong with India’s polity and society, another that looks at Bangladesh and asks important questions about the nature of identity, religion, and the idea of “home”, and a public intellectual’s moving narrative of his personal and professional journey

This week’s pick of good reads includes an attempt to understand what’s gone wrong with India’s polity, a book that ask similar and related questions about Bangladesh, and a narrative of a personal and professional journey (HT Team)

books

Updated on Dec 02, 2023 10:04 AM IST

ByHT Team

Review: Fahmida Riaz: The Iconic Iconoclast by Subodh Lal

An illuminating new book presents Urdu poet Fahmida Riaz’s stirring attempts to seek an identity in a world of male desire

Urdu poet Fahmida Riaz in the 1980s. (HT Photo)

books

Published on Nov 30, 2023 06:44 PM IST

ByShafey kidwai

Woman found dead in fountain on Indirapuram high-rise premises, police rule it suicide

Police said they were alerted about the body on Saturday morning even though the death had taken place the previous evening, as deduced from the CCTV footage of the complex.

The incident was reported from ATS Advantage Society in Indirapuram. Police said the 20-year-old woman was depressed and under medication. The body has been sent for an autopsy and the reports are awaited. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

cities

Published on Nov 25, 2023 10:17 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Ghaziabad

CJI says world 'confronted with questions about ethical treatment' of AI

Justice Chandrachud said that liberty allows an individual to make choices for oneself and change the course of life

Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud,(Hindustan Times)

india news

Published on Nov 25, 2023 04:59 PM IST

ByShobhit Gupta

Hate is twice cursed, mercy twice blessed

Jews know the pain of losing a home. Jews know what it is like to never be able to return to one

Protesters from Orthodox Jews Against Zionism, left, attend a pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London, UK, on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Israel said it�s preparing for �the next stages of the war� against Hamas that would include �an integrated and coordinated attack from the air, sea and land� on the Gaza Strip. Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg(Bloomberg)

opinion

Published on Nov 18, 2023 12:44 PM IST

ByNishtha Gautam

Ugandan woman gets 6 months in jail for overstaying

A Ugandan woman in Navi Mumbai has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for overstaying in the country and using a false identity. She will be deported after serving her sentence.

cities

Updated on Nov 03, 2023 07:30 AM IST

ByG Mohiuddin Jeddy

Just Like That | Rethinking tradition vs modernity debate

Madan Mohan Malviya was a stalwart in the Congress who had the courage of conviction to take a radically different stand.

opinion

Published on Oct 22, 2023 10:11 AM IST

ByPavan K Varma

Hasan Minhaj, writers, and the fabrication of truth

Comedian Hasan Minhaj has been accused of fabricating incidents from his life on his shows, leading to questions about the morality of his actions

Hasan Minhaj at the ESPY awards on July 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, USA. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

books

Updated on Sep 22, 2023 08:42 PM IST

ByFarzana Versey

Listicle: 10 books to read before their stories hit the screen

Tales of valour, non-fiction work, love stories and everything that’s getting the movie or series treatment soon

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is author Suzanne Collins's prequel to The Hunger Games.

lifestyle

Updated on Sep 15, 2023 05:05 PM IST

ByUrvee Modwel

Man who withdrew cash for online fraudster held in Faridabad

Faridabad police arrest man involved in online frauds and thefts, who acted as a conduit for a fraud mastermind. Motorbike, cash, and ATM cards seized. Raid planned on mastermind's house. Case registered against both under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code and Arms Act.

The police have registered a case at the Kotwali police station against the mastermind and the suspect. (Representational image)

cities

Updated on Aug 24, 2023 11:05 PM IST

ByLeena Dhankhar

Building a new and inclusive Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh's road to progress placed the people at its core by enabling, uplifting, and empowering them through innovative strategies

Chhattisgarh shows the world a new sustainable economic model, where everyone has benefitted from the financial prosperity of the state.(Pixabay)

opinion

Published on Aug 15, 2023 09:12 PM IST

ByBhupesh Baghel

Wife neither appendage, adjunct to husband: Delhi HC

The court made the observation while directing a man to vacate his tenanted shop proposed to be used by the married daughters of a landlord

cities

Updated on Jul 11, 2023 12:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Just Like That | Indianness remains our central identity

Indianness, therefore, remains our central identity, however cosmopolitan our interests are. Within that, there can be infinite diversities.

Within our one defining Indianness, there can be infinite diversities.(HT Archive)

opinion

Published on Jul 02, 2023 10:26 AM IST

ByPavan K Varma

Muslims are the poorest religious group in India

An HT analysis of unit level data from the latest AIDIS and PLFS shows they have the lowest asset and consumption levels among major religious groups in India

Muslims have the lowest asset/consumption levels among major religious groups. (PTI Photo)

india news

Updated on Jun 30, 2023 09:22 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, Roshan Kishore

Kendall's identity crisis! Is she more Kardashian or Jenner? Fans divided

In a recent interview with the WSJ, Kendall Jenner, the 27-year-old model, opened up about her unique perspective within the Kardashian-Jenner clan

Kendall Jenner attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating

entertainment

Published on Jun 26, 2023 04:30 PM IST

ByPaurush Omar

2002 Mulund blast: Court allows to take blood samples of accused’s close relatives

Bashir is alleged to have trained many youths to participate in terrorist activities and also was accused of being the mastermind of the blast. Sources revealed that Bashir has been tracked in UAE and he has been staying there with a different identity

cities

Updated on Jun 15, 2023 11:36 PM IST

ByCharul Shah, Manish K Pathak

Panchkula to have its logo, says MLA Gian Chand Gupta

Like Chandigarh, Panchkula should also have a logo which could give a distinct identity to the city. Assistance from architects, students and other creative people should be taken to design a unique logo, said Haryana Vidhan Sabha speaker and Panchkula MLA Gian Chand Gupta

Haryana Vidhan Sabha speaker Gian Chand Gupta at the launch of Panchkula Vision Society at the PWD Rest House in Sector 1. (Sant Arora//HT)

cities

Updated on May 04, 2023 01:23 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Panchkula

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First published nearly four decades ago in the original Bangla, this complex novel that traverses an expansive canvas of time and place, is striking for how urgently relevant it still feels

Memory shapes our identity through both real and false recollections. False memories can feel just as authentic as true experiences.

On the reading list this week is a collection of essays that sheds light on the complex fabric of identity in Northeast India, a tribute to poet and author Keki N Daruwalla, and writings by Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl on how to find meaning and fulfilment

See how photographer Anurag Banerjee’s search for home and identity led him to explore the struggles, songs and universal experiences of these artists.

On the reading list this week is an intimate portrait of a city with a troubled past and an unsettled present, a book of tales from the Mahabharata that delivers instructions on life, death and everything in between, and a volume that presenting a lesser known aspect of Indian art history

All schools are passionate about shaping young minds. Popular ideas and ideologies actively use schools to intellectually sculpt young minds

A novel that chalks out the protagonist’s identity crisis to minutely observe Iranian-American angst and dissonance in ideas of nationhood

The verdict will reveal what voters think of Narendra Modi, the depth of a Hindu political identity, and the nature of economic sentiment

18 million people will vote for the first time in 2024. In a series, HT looks at their issues, hopes, grouses

Mehbooba Mufti’s younger colleague and the party’s Srinagar constituency candidate, Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, meanwhile, urged youth to use their vote as a referendum

Beyond the tiger claw and the Mysore sandal soap, the city's history is filled with the symbols of good governance, wars and anti-colonial pride

On January 9, one of the two girls was found dead in a field at Hinduni village while another was found lying unconscious nearby.

Security has been beefed up on the premises of the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha and stringent procedures are being followed to issue passes for visitors

An illuminating new book presents Urdu poet Fahmida Riaz’s stirring attempts to seek an identity in a world of male desire

Police said they were alerted about the body on Saturday morning even though the death had taken place the previous evening, as deduced from the CCTV footage of the complex.

Justice Chandrachud said that liberty allows an individual to make choices for oneself and change the course of life

Jews know the pain of losing a home. Jews know what it is like to never be able to return to one

A Ugandan woman in Navi Mumbai has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for overstaying in the country and using a false identity. She will be deported after serving her sentence.

Madan Mohan Malviya was a stalwart in the Congress who had the courage of conviction to take a radically different stand.

Comedian Hasan Minhaj has been accused of fabricating incidents from his life on his shows, leading to questions about the morality of his actions

Tales of valour, non-fiction work, love stories and everything that’s getting the movie or series treatment soon

Faridabad police arrest man involved in online frauds and thefts, who acted as a conduit for a fraud mastermind. Motorbike, cash, and ATM cards seized. Raid planned on mastermind's house. Case registered against both under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code and Arms Act.

Chhattisgarh's road to progress placed the people at its core by enabling, uplifting, and empowering them through innovative strategies

The court made the observation while directing a man to vacate his tenanted shop proposed to be used by the married daughters of a landlord

Indianness, therefore, remains our central identity, however cosmopolitan our interests are. Within that, there can be infinite diversities.

An HT analysis of unit level data from the latest AIDIS and PLFS shows they have the lowest asset and consumption levels among major religious groups in India

In a recent interview with the WSJ, Kendall Jenner, the 27-year-old model, opened up about her unique perspective within the Kardashian-Jenner clan

Bashir is alleged to have trained many youths to participate in terrorist activities and also was accused of being the mastermind of the blast. Sources revealed that Bashir has been tracked in UAE and he has been staying there with a different identity

Like Chandigarh, Panchkula should also have a logo which could give a distinct identity to the city. Assistance from architects, students and other creative people should be taken to design a unique logo, said Haryana Vidhan Sabha speaker and Panchkula MLA Gian Chand Gupta

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