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Marjane Satrapi: The cartographer of exile and unforgotten grief

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Marjane Satrapi at the premiere of ‘La Bande Des Jotas’ at the 7th Rome Film Festival on November 16, 2012 in Rome, Italy. Her husband Mattias Ripa played Nils, one of the badminton players, who get caught up in a mysterious woman’s plan after a suitcase mix-up in the south of Spain. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Jun 08, 2026 04:04 pm IST

Quote of the day by Virginia Woolf: ‘Lock up your libraries if you like; but…'

Virginia Woolf inspires bold expression and independent thought in modern society.
Published on Mar 19, 2026 08:33 am IST

Review: Daisy & Woolf by Michelle Cahill

Virginia Woolf, author of Mrs Dalloway. A marginal character in Woolf’s novel is at the centre of Michelle Cahill’s Daisy & Woolf. (Shutterstock)
Published on Jun 13, 2025 10:31 pm IST

Delhiwale:This way to Mohalla Niyaryan, part 1

Stall owner Asif Mobile Wale. (HT Photo)
Published on Apr 26, 2025 05:16 am IST

Review: Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot

A view of Dresden (Shutterstock)
Published on Jan 30, 2025 04:48 pm IST

Women @Booker 2024: Breaking boundaries, dismantling one moniker at a time

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On the shortlist for the 2024 Booker Prize, five of the six shortlisted authors are women
Published on Sept 25, 2024 06:54 pm IST

Who was Aphra Behn? A look at a trailblazing 17th-century poet, writer, spy

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Born in Canterbury in 1640, Behn died at 48, and is buried at Westminster Abbey. (Wikimedia Commons)
Updated on Jan 20, 2024 03:09 pm IST

Roundabout: A Tryst with Translation

TELLING TALES: Translators Arunava Sinha, Baran Farooqi and novelist Khalid Javed. (HT Photos)
Updated on Apr 09, 2023 01:43 am IST

Sans gala or red carpet, a stylish fashion show at the Metropolitan Museum

This image released by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York shows a black dress by Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen, left, and a ball gown by American designer Charles James, part of The Costume Institute’s exhibition "About Time: Fashion and Duration," tracing 150 years of fashion.
Updated on Oct 31, 2020 10:45 am IST

Delhiwale: Meet the plant lady

Geeta is a hawker of plants. One of the bags around her arms contains mats and seed packets and the other has ropes.
Updated on Oct 03, 2020 06:48 am IST

Met Gala 2020 postponed, future of fashion in question

Priyanka Chopra Jonas went for a a frothy gray Dior haute couture number as she walked on the red carpet last year.
Updated on Mar 20, 2020 06:06 am IST

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bernardine Evaristo, Olga Tokarczuk, Virginia Woolf and other women authors you should read

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bernardine Evaristo, Olga Tazarchuk and other women authors you should read.
Updated on Mar 08, 2020 07:38 pm IST

Humour: In search of balance

While seeking balance, avoid its evil twin, ‘false balance’
Updated on Jan 26, 2020 12:06 am IST

Books we haven’t read: Time to turn the page?

There are many books we buy eagerly, take pride in having in our collection, sometimes quote from the few pages that we have been able to finish, but never manage to read them from cover to cover.
Updated on Nov 30, 2019 08:16 pm IST

Pack your bags and set out on a mouth-watering food trip in USA

Man grilling meat. (Representational Image)
Updated on Oct 16, 2019 09:57 am IST

Essay: Demolishing the women’s ghetto

Kamala Das reading from her work on 19 July, 1990.
Updated on Jul 27, 2019 03:07 pm IST

Relative humour: Invoking Einstein to prove that time moves five times slower in Goa and 7.5 times slower during a summertime power cut!

Have you ever thought about the practical manifestations of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
Updated on May 05, 2019 12:51 am IST

Humour: A quirky take on how writers write

Like fitness seekers who buy the shoes and download the apps, writers motivate themselves with their fancy diaries and writing software
Updated on Feb 24, 2019 01:22 am IST

Indian women lack privilege to roam around city spaces, Gurugram is no exception

:eisure Valley Park in sector-29, Gurgaon, India.
Updated on Jun 28, 2018 10:13 am IST

Weekend Binge: Like Stephen Hawking’s Theory of Everything, here are 6 great films about gifted geniuses

Eddie Redmayne, Michael Pitt and Chris Evans have all played gifted individuals on film.
Updated on Mar 17, 2018 08:59 am IST