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]Dastarkhwan-e-Mohabbat; of fasting and feasting
Updated on Mar 28, 2024 09:38 PM IST
The Muslim women who have been organising interfaith iftars in Gurgaon since 2017 know that food is a unifying force.
Review: Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo
An exploration of girlhood and womanhood, Lost on Me, which has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, stands out for its humour and solid punch lines
Published on Mar 28, 2024 09:23 PM IST
Married to genius
Women have forsaken their own creative pursuits to rally around celebrated husbands. Books like ‘The Chosen’ and ‘Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life’ and films like ‘Maestro’ and ‘Priscilla’ are now recasting spouses as historical actors in the tales of artistic achievements
Published on Mar 27, 2024 08:37 PM IST
Parakala Prabhakar – “My intention is to generate a spirited debate”
During an interview conducted at the Kerala Literature Festival 2024, the author of ‘The Crooked Timber of New India’ spoke about the concerns facing the country and the need to provide a platform for criticism
Published on Mar 26, 2024 08:08 PM IST
Book Box | A Chicago Bookstore Crawl
From a river dyed green to the Obamas' romantic haunt, a walk through Chicago's literary life.
Published on Mar 23, 2024 11:40 PM IST
Report: Sacred Amritsar Festival 2024
The two-day event was an opportunity for attendees to reflect, celebrate, and connect even as it reminded them of their humanity and shared love for poetry and music
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 09:48 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that looks at who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience, a volume on five individuals whose lives were changed by the freedom struggle and who, in turn, left their stamp on it, and a study of one critic’s monumental influence on the Progressive artists
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 06:10 AM IST
Chitralekha Zutshi - “This is not an apologia for his actions”
The author of Sheikh Abdullah; The Caged Lion of Kashmir talks about placing the Kashmiri leader’s life in the context of critical global developments in the twentieth century, accessing new archival material, and collecting new oral histories from those who were closely associated with Abdullah
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 10:03 AM IST
Review: Notes on a Marriage: A Novel by Selma Carvalho
Selma Carvalho unsettles both the heart and the mind as she decodes marriage, looks beyond the binary of heroes and villains, and underlines what sustains the oddest of relationships
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 06:00 AM IST
Review: Aryans by Charles Allen
In this posthumously published book, Charles Allen, author of works on Ashoka and Rudyard Kipling, among others, investigates who the Aryans were by drawing on linguistic theories, archaeology, and studies of human migration and genetics
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 05:44 AM IST
Review: The Gallery by Manju Kapur
Set in Delhi and Nepal, Manju Kapur’s seventh novel makes the reader wonder if women from different economic classes can ever meet on common ground
Published on Mar 21, 2024 09:38 PM IST
Interview: Manav Kaul, author, Rooh - “I carry my home with me”
Tender and compassionate, Manav Kaul’s books Rooh and A Bird on My Windowsill focuses on both the hardships of Kashmiri Pandits and their exodus from the valley and on Kashmiri Muslims left behind in a state of terror
Updated on Mar 21, 2024 08:04 AM IST
Saltburn, Parasite and the class satire industrial complex
Ironically, capitalising on anti-capitalist sentiment has been quite profitable and the eat-the-rich satires now being regularly cranked out show that class warfare as scripted entertainment, strangely, seems to preserve the status quo
Published on Mar 19, 2024 06:43 PM IST
Review: The Body of the Soul by Ludmila Ulitskaya
The characters in this collection of 11 stories by one of Russia’s eminent contemporary writers grapple with loss, melancholy, and disillusionment
Updated on Mar 19, 2024 05:24 PM IST
Emma Byrne: “Swearing is a pain killer”
The scientist and author of Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language says using taboo words in specific contexts can have powerful physiological benefits
Published on Mar 18, 2024 08:47 PM IST
Book Box | Mary Beard spills the tea (and rose petals) on Roman emperors
From power plays to poolside passion, this classics don reveals what we can learn from Roman history
Updated on Mar 16, 2024 08:40 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that envisages a work environment that’s effective across the physical–digital divide, an account of a large and socially complex Indian state, and the biography of a remarkable woman who dreamt of an India free of poverty, caste oppression and gender disparity
Updated on Mar 15, 2024 08:02 PM IST
Daniel Bosley – “I never dreamed of going somewhere like the Maldives”
The author of Descent into Paradise: A Journalist’s Memoir of the Untold Maldives on embracing his voice and perspective, close friends in the Maldives who were killed by Islamist vigilantes, and how the people of the island nation don’t have any genuine animosity towards Indians
Published on Mar 15, 2024 08:01 PM IST
Report: Kerala Literature Festival 2024
The seventh edition of the Kerala Literature Festival, held in Kozhikode, was a literary spectacle with just the right dash of history, technology, politics, and celebrity appearances
Published on Mar 15, 2024 07:55 PM IST
Review: Marginlands by Arati Kumar-Rao
Presenting the wonders of the land and also the environmental catastrophes being unleashed by detrimental policies conceived without consulting those who will be most affected by them
Published on Mar 15, 2024 07:54 PM IST
Sreedhar Bevara: True leaders emerge when their survival is at stake
The author talks about his need to inspire change in others, his journey as a leader and his upcoming book projects.
Published on Mar 15, 2024 07:16 PM IST
Alam-Ara turns 93
The inclusion of song and dance, elements of romantic drama, a multicultural crew and cast... India’s first talkie was a herald of things to come for the Hindi film industry
Updated on Mar 15, 2024 09:06 AM IST
Antonia Lloyd-Jones - “Olga does all sorts of things for all sorts of people”
The award-winning translator of the works of many of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists talks about translating Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s books
Published on Mar 13, 2024 08:58 PM IST
Review: Your Utopia by Bora Chung
In the eight stories in this collection, Bora Chung’s characters live with hope in a world that dares not dream of it, yet desperately needs it
Published on Mar 13, 2024 07:03 PM IST
A book by a political scientist on chaos, black swans and the butterfly theory
In Fluke, author Brian Klaas brings up a question: If life is indeed all chaos and chance, how do we believe that everything we do matters?
Published on Mar 13, 2024 06:10 PM IST
Past Lives, Three of Us & 96: Film and Undying Love
A look at three films that attempt to understand the simultaneous existence of many versions of an individual and the possibility of loving those different versions
Published on Mar 12, 2024 09:16 PM IST
Ankon Mitra – “Paper had to sing and dance in a fundamental way in this show”
The architect and pioneer of paper art, who curated the spectacular ‘On Paper - Of Paper’ talks about the evolution and revolution of paper art in India
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 05:32 AM IST
Book Box | When I see a woman read
From stolen moments to public shields, the many meanings of a woman with a book
Published on Mar 09, 2024 09:00 PM IST
Review: The Past is Never Dead by Ujjal Dosanjh
A debut novel that packs in a good overview of Punjab’s caste history as it is transposed into the settlements of second and third generation Punjabis in the UK
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 06:36 AM IST
Karen Powell - “I feel drawn to Emily Bronte’s untamed spirit”
The author of Fifteen Wild Decembers on her evocative reimagination of Emily Brontë’s life narrated in the 19th century novelist’s own voice
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 05:00 AM IST