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Khushwant Singh Litfest flies from Kasauli to shores of Thames

Themed Rewilding the Mind: Ecology, Storytelling, and the Future, the fest explores how literature reconnects us to the natural world carrying forward the legacy of author, journalist, scholar, and iconoclast Khushwant Singh.
chandigarh news
Published on May 30, 2026 07:36 am IST

Foreign forces aiding Pakistan to push drugs, arms into Punjab: Kataria

Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria along with Chandigarh MP Manish Tiwari and ex-MP Avinash Rai Khanna in Hoshiarpur on Tuesday. (HT Photo)
chandigarh news
Published on Feb 25, 2026 04:36 am IST

Punjab guv: Collective efforts vital in anti-drug fight

Governor Gulab Chand Kataria participating in an anti-drug march in Mukerian on Monday. (Harpreet Kaur/HT Photo)
chandigarh news
Published on Feb 24, 2026 07:20 am IST

Punjab governor joins walk against drugs in Mukerian, Hoshiarpur next week

Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria and author Khushwant Singh taking part in an earlier edition of the People’s Walk Against Drugs in December 2024. (File photo)
chandigarh news
Published on Feb 18, 2026 05:17 pm IST

Walkathon to spread awareness against drug abuse

Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria, while announcing the Nasha Mukt-Rangla Punjab campaign in Amritsar on Friday, had urged the civil society to actively support the people’s walk against drugs. The governor will join the walk on December 10 and 11, covering 15 km along the Alawalpur-Kartarpur road. (HT File)
chandigarh news
Published on Dec 07, 2024 10:59 pm IST

How Bibek Debroy was different from his peers

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**EDS: FILE PHOTO** New Delhi: In this Oct. 11, 2017 file photo, Bibek Debroy, chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), during a press conference in New Delhi. Debroy passed away on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 at the age of 69. (PTI Photo/Subhav Shukla) (PTI)
opinion
Published on Nov 08, 2024 08:21 am IST

Roundabout | They speak as their lips are free and their tongues are their own

Vicky Ahuja telling the story of ‘Sardarji’.  (Jashn-E-Qalam)
chandigarh news
Updated on Nov 03, 2024 06:54 am IST

Guest column: Remembering the Sardarji in the bulb and his Sardarni

Our paths crossed with Khushwant Singh many times thereafter — at Pingalwara, where he donated generously; in Delhi, at E-49, his red-brick Sujan Singh Park apartment, where a sign on his door read, “Do not ring the doorbell unless you are expected”; and in Kasauli, where conversations flowed freely. (The man-in-the-bulb logo designed by Mario Miranda.)
chandigarh news
Updated on Oct 27, 2024 07:44 am IST

Indrani Mukerjea dances at Khushwant Singh Lit Fest, organisers face flak

Indrani Mukerjea gives a dance performance at a three-day literary festival in Kasauli
trending
Published on Oct 21, 2024 06:40 am IST

Roundabout | Sun smiles on the merry mix of Khushwant Singh Lit Fest

Full house at Khushwant Singh Lit Fest, author William Dalrymple and poet Arundhati Subramaniam kept the listeners spellbound. (HT Photos)
chandigarh news
Updated on Oct 20, 2024 05:08 am IST

Here's why Kushwant Singh was a beacon of sharp intellectual thinking

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opinion
Published on Mar 24, 2024 08:30 am IST

Lit talk at this fest will celebrate writer Khushwant Singh's legacy

The Khushwant Singh Literature Festival, happening in Kasauli, has a stellar line-up of speakers such Anjum Hasan (author), Anup Soni (actor), Kubbra Sait (actor) and Maria Goretti ( TV host).
books
Published on Oct 13, 2023 08:54 am IST

Five arrested for gambling, ₹23,000 seized

Coming down heavily against those indulging in gambling, police arrested five persons and seized over ₹23,000 from their possession in three separate cases. (Representational image)
bhopal news
Updated on Apr 19, 2023 11:48 pm IST

Did you know Sara Ali Khan is related to Dilip Kumar, through her mother Amrita?

Amrita Singh's grand aunt Begum Para was married to Dilip Kumar's brother Nasir Khan.
bollywood
Published on Mar 27, 2021 02:02 pm IST

Five lives from the land of five rivers

If the protest remains peaceful and does not get co-opted into other agendas, it can be a landmark in India’s agrarian history
columns
Updated on Dec 07, 2020 08:22 pm IST

Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: The bake up in the lockdown

Baking is essentially a sinful union between maida and cheeni.
brunch
Updated on Aug 16, 2020 09:41 am IST

Summer reading list for young adults

Five books for the teenagers’ reading list
brunch
Updated on Jun 07, 2020 12:29 am IST

Jab We Met: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and I

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was one of the most celebrated writers of the Urdu language.
mumbai news
Updated on Jan 16, 2020 11:45 pm IST

Khushwant Singh: Noted writer and journalist

Khushwant Singh was the editor of several reputed newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated Weekly of India, The National Herald and Hindustan Times.
ht school
Updated on Nov 01, 2019 05:02 pm IST

Closure of Daryaganj book market evokes shock, outrage and nostalgia

The Daryaganj footpath that usually teems with bibliophiles scouring rows of neatly laid-out books every Sunday looked forlorn.
delhi news
Updated on Aug 05, 2019 12:58 pm IST

New British PM Boris Johnson has a Khushwant Singh connection

Boris Johnson at Nirman Sewak Gurudwara, St George Bristol in 2017
india news
Updated on Jun 04, 2020 06:08 pm IST

Boris Johnson and his very personal link with India

Boris Johnson, UK’s next Prime Minister.
world news
Updated on Jul 24, 2019 12:44 am IST

Rude food by Vir Sanghvi: The legend of Jiggs Kalra

Irrespespective of the fact that Zorawar Kalra’s (standing) success was his own, he never stopped crediting his father Jiggs Kalra
brunch
Updated on Jun 15, 2019 11:05 pm IST

Second coming of Khushwant Singh at King’s College in London

Rahul Singh with Indian high commissioner Ruchi Ghaneshyam and Vikramjeet Sahney, honorary counsel general of South Africa, at the opening of the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in King’s College in London.
india news
Published on Jun 02, 2019 01:48 pm IST

The Taste With Vir: The 30th anniversary of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses and the controversy that followed it

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 10, 2018 now US novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie poses during a photo session in Paris. - The author of the “Satanic Verses”, now US novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie, refuses to live as a recluse but he accepted to live under police protection since the Ayatollah Khomeini, the first guide of the Islamic Republic of Iran put a fatwa on a him and condemned him to death sentence for the book deemed as blasphemous by Muslims. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)
books
Updated on Nov 03, 2019 09:07 pm IST

Khushwant Singh lit fest 2018: For the love of booze and salads...

Wendell Rodericks anchoring the session during the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival in Kasauli.
art culture
Updated on Oct 15, 2018 02:40 pm IST

Opening Session: Remembering Khushwant Singh, the enigma

Rahul Singh at the opening session of day-1 of Khushwant Singh Literature Festival at Kasauli on Friday.
india news
Updated on Oct 12, 2018 11:11 pm IST

Khushwant Singh Lit Fest to kick off on October 12 in Kasauli

Kishie Singh (left) and Rahul Singh during a press conference in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
others
Updated on Oct 11, 2018 03:12 pm IST

Rishi Kapoor as Khushwant Singh, a biopic on the writer is being planned

Actor Rishi Kapoor would be seen in films Mulk and Rajma Chawal, both releasing soon.
bollywood
Updated on Jul 29, 2018 04:50 pm IST

Penguin Random House acquires respected Hindi publisher Hind Pocket Books

Penguin began its Hindi publishing programme in India in 2005.
books
Published on Jun 29, 2018 08:14 pm IST
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