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Author Janice Pariat on life in lockdown

<p>The poet, award-winning novelist and author of Boats on Land, Seahorse, and The Nine Chambered Heart chats about habits she lost in the lockdown that she won't ever go back to, and why she can't wait to throw a tree-planting party.</p>
Published on Dec 25, 2020 01:14 pm IST

Purdah and a pandemic by Ira Mukhoty

<p>The author of the acclaimed Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire, Akbar: The Great Mughal, and Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History, discusses what it means to be a writer of historical non-fiction, and does a reading of the story written for HT Wknd.</p>
Updated on Dec 25, 2020 01:04 pm IST

Like A Herd Dying by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

<p>The celebrated poet, essayist and literary critic weaves a tale around a poem written exclusively for HT Wknd, as well as the garden that has formed such a large part of his life in the lockdown, and an incident in which a strange woman appeared at the gate of his Dehradun home.</p>
Updated on Dec 26, 2020 03:58 pm IST

A tribute to John le Carré

<p>John le Carré, one of the greatest English novelists who wrote about the Cold War and later, complex geopolitics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, died on December 12. A former British intelligence officer himself, le Carré (his real name was David Cornwell) drew upon his experience to create a world inhabited by 'spies', 'moles', 'double agents', 'pavement artists', 'lamplighters' among others. But what made his spy thrillers different from others, particularly the James Bond variety, was that this world was riven with moral ambiguities, uncertainties, betrayals. Le Carré's spies weren't glamorous, they were tired and often made compromises in a fast-changing post-War world. Ace Hindi film screenwriter Anjum Rajabali tells us how le Carré influenced him</p>
Published on Dec 18, 2020 05:30 pm IST

Inside the studio creating artworks for churches

<p>The Mangaluru-based Simon Art Co has orders for religious statuary pouring in from all over the world. It was founded in 1932 and is now run by the third generation of the Rasquinha family. Most orders are for crucifixes, but there are lots of statues made in the studio too. Each piece created is handmade and distinct. Some are shipped as far as Nairobi, Australia and North America.</p>
Updated on Dec 18, 2020 02:00 pm IST
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