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Review: Women, Dreaming by Salma
By Simar Bhasin | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON NOV 27, 2020 09:28 PM IST
A feminine text cannot fail to be volcanic, and so it is with Salma’s Women, Dreaming
Book Review: ‘It will inspire young girls who wish to become entrepreneurs’
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 24, 2020 06:25 PM IST
In this book, Lyeba has mentioned 9 interviews of different business women, their challenges and how they overcame their fear.
Review: Portraits of Power by NK Singh
By Prachi Mishra | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON NOV 07, 2020 06:16 PM IST
An autobiography of an eminent Indian bureaucrat that could well be a vivid biography of the Indian Civil Service itself
Review: A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
By Saudamini Jain | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 30, 2020 03:26 PM IST
This book is a fictional case-study for the slogan “The revolution will be feminist, or it will be nothing.”
Review: Sudeep Sen: Selected Interviews & Conversations
By Malashri Lal | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 23, 2020 05:53 PM IST
A volume that covers the poet’s theories and practice, memories and challenges, innovations and experiments
Review: The Phoenix Rises: Lockdown Chronicles edited by Amit Dasgupta
By Biswadeep Ghosh | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 23, 2020 02:04 PM IST
An anthology that approaches the lockdown and the pandemic from different angles
IPL 2020: Two reviews in one ball? Bizarre Mujeeb Ur Rahman dismissal causes confusion
By hindustantimes.com | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 09, 2020 09:22 AM IST
IPL 2020: The incident that took place off the fifth ball of the 14th over of Kings XI Punjab’s chase against Sunrisers Hyderabad, over saw two reviews being taken in one ball regarding Mujeeb Ur Rahman’s dismissal.
Review: The Wall by Gautam Bhatia
By Maaz Bin Bilal | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2020 05:44 PM IST
Legal scholar Gautam Bhatia’s first novel works with many of the classical tropes of utopia, or dystopia as utopia gone wrong
Review: Centralia by Poulomi Basu
By Paroma Mukherjee | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2020 06:54 PM IST
Truth is stranger than fiction in this photo book, or perhaps it’s one and the same, as photographs become shape shifters in the jungles of central India, the scene of several conflicts
Review: Land’s End by Adil Jussawalla
By Manohar Shetty | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2020 02:10 PM IST
A pivotal figure in the Indian English poetry scene for six decades, Adil Jussawalla’s maiden collection, first published in 1962 and recently reissued, is full of poems that are intriguing and authentic
ZEE5’s ‘Forbidden Love’ review: Four ground-breaking love stories
By Promotional Feature, HT Brand Studio
UPDATED ON SEP 24, 2020 05:38 PM IST
The first two atypical and edgy love stories from the Forbidden Love saga, which released earlier this month, were a roaring hit with the audiences. ZEE5 has released the next two parts, both enthralling stories of modern love that explore issues frowned upon by society.
Ahead of Rajasthan govt’s report card, AICC manifesto panel to hold review meet on Friday
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Joydeep Sen Gupta | Hindustan Times, Jaipur
UPDATED ON SEP 23, 2020 03:28 PM IST
CM Gehlot is keeping his cabinet colleagues and senior bureaucrats on their toes as only eight days are left for the October 2 deadline for placing the government’s report card in public domain
Review: The End of an Era; India Exits Tibet by Claude Arpi
By Thubten Samphel | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 11, 2020 08:03 PM IST
Claude Arpi’s four volumes on Tibet’s relations with India show how China developed its Tibet playbook that includes encroachment, occupation, and the spinning of a narrative of false claims. The last book in the series focuses on the last five years of India’s diplomatic presence in Tibet
Review: A Burning by Megha Majumdar
By Saudamini Jain | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 05, 2020 10:58 PM IST
A Burning’s remarkable characters will stay with readers even if its political and philosophical underpinnings fade
Review: Rivers Remember by Krupa Ge and Flood and Fury by Viju B
By Sudhirendar Sharma | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON AUG 24, 2020 06:38 PM IST
Two recent books acquire a fresh significance at a time when different parts of the country are battling serious floods
Review: Rivers Remember by Krupa Ge and Flood and Fury by Viju B
By Sudhirendar Sharma | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON AUG 24, 2020 06:38 PM IST
Two recent books acquire a fresh significance at a time when different parts of the country are battling serious floods
Review: The Women Who Forgot To Invent Facebook and Other Stories by Nisha Susan
By Sonali Mujumdar | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON AUG 18, 2020 03:55 PM IST
A debut collection of whimsical stories of intimate love and hate in the times of the internet
Review: The Machine is Learning by Tanuj Solanki
By Percy Bharucha | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON AUG 17, 2020 04:19 PM IST
A novel whose characters are at the heart of the man-versus-machine debate
Review: Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950 by Ali Khan Mahmudabad
By Lamat R Hasan | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON AUG 06, 2020 03:30 PM IST
A book that is as much a scholarly read on the 19th century, as it is an oblique critique of the present
Review: Estuary by Perumal Murugan
By Saudamini Jain | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUL 31, 2020 05:49 PM IST
Perumal Murugan’s newly translated novel Estuary, is a sincere portrayal of the crumbling of a middle-class Indian male
Review: Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
By Suhit Kelkar | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUL 30, 2020 09:11 PM IST
A fantastical and trippy novel that lampoons Hollywood tropes.
Review: Shehnaz, A Tragic True Story of Royalty, Glamour and Heartbreak by Sophia Naz
By Swati Rai | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUL 28, 2020 03:07 PM IST
The tragic story of a mother told by her daughter
Review: The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia edited by Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal
By Chintan Girish Modi | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUL 23, 2020 06:31 PM IST
An ambitious undertaking, this anthology ensures that trans, non-binary, Dalit and Muslim voices, which are often marginalized in mainstream queer spaces, get to have their say
Review: Sketches - The Memoir of an Artist by KM Vasudevan Namboodiri
By Kunal Ray | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUL 13, 2020 04:35 PM IST
Filled with drawings that capture places and people, the pages of this memoir delight with sheer artistry
Review: Sin of Semantics by Saima Afreen
By Manohar Shetty | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUL 09, 2020 07:40 PM IST
A debut collection of poetry that is unequivocally modern
Review: Breasts and Eggs, a Novel by Mieko Kawakami
By Vrinda Nabar | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUL 09, 2020 08:20 PM IST
Humorous, ironic and occasionally tragic-comic, the Japanese writer’s new novel looks at the ways in which many women have quietly subverted gender roles
Covid-19: A review of three medical approaches
By Anurag Agrawal
UPDATED ON JUN 29, 2020 07:25 PM IST
There is a reliance on general supportive care, antiviral treatment, and immune modulation. But this is evolving
Review: It’s Not About the Burqua edited by Mariam Khan
By Shaikh Mujibur Rehman | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUN 25, 2020 04:59 PM IST
A book of essays by Muslim women that takes on Islamophobia, the white feminist perspective, and other issues to do with the Muslim woman’s lived experience today
Review: Once Upon A Prime Time: My Journey on Indian Television by Ananth Mahadevan
By Lamat R Hasan | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUN 23, 2020 06:07 PM IST
Actor and director Ananth Mahadevan looks at the phenomenal growth and the eventual qualitative fall of the television industry through his own life’s journey
Review: Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and other Possible Situations by SB Divya
By Simar Bhasin | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2020 09:31 PM IST
Speculative scenarios that showcase the changing relationships between the natural world and the human body