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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.

The sumptuous spread at the iftar organised by the author and her friends in Gurgaon. (Courtesy iftar hosts)
ByFarah Naaz

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

A street in Rome, Italy, where the protagonist of Veronica Raimo’s Lost on Me grows up. (Shutterstock)
Published on Mar 28, 2024 09:23 PM IST
ByRahul Singh

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

A scene from ‘Priscilla directed’, and produced by Sofia Coppola. The film is based on the 1985 memoir ‘Elvis and Me’ by Priscilla Presley. (Amazon Prime)
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

Author Parakala Prabhakar (Courtesy Kerala Literature Festival)
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.

Exile in Bookville, Chicago(Author)
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

Jasleen Aulakh and band performing at Sacred Amritsar (Courtesy Sacred Amritsar Festival)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 09:48 AM IST
ByShireen Quadri

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

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that looks at the privilege of travelling, another on five people who were part of the freedom struggle, and one on a critic’s influence on India’s great modern artists. (HT Team)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 06:10 AM IST
ByHT Team

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

Author Chitralekha Zutshi (Courtesy the subject)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 10:03 AM IST
ByMajid Maqbool

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

Staring into the distance, together; A sculpture by Lynn Chadwick at Canary Wharf, London. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 06:00 AM IST
ByLamat R Hasan

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

A performance of the Ramayana ballet at the Prambanan temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Aleksandar Todorovic/Shutterstock)
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

Visitors at an art show in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)
Published on Mar 21, 2024 09:38 PM IST
ByPranavi Sharma

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

Author Manav Kaul (Kunal Patil/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Mar 21, 2024 08:04 AM IST
BySharmistha Jha

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

“If there is a rallying cry in Saltburn, it isn’t eat the rich, but beware the lower classes.” (Scene from Saltburn)
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

One of the stories in this collection features a landscape photographer who wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Mar 19, 2024 05:24 PM IST
ByHritik Verma

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

Scientist and author Emma Byrne (Courtesy the subject)
Published on Mar 18, 2024 08:47 PM IST
ByTeja Lele

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

Mary Beard (Author)
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

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that looks at creating relatable contemporary work environments, an account of complex Indian state, and the biography of one of the most inspiring figures of twentieth-century India. (HT Team)
Updated on Mar 15, 2024 08:02 PM IST
ByHT Team

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

Author Daniel Bosley (Aishath Naj)
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

Actor and politician Prakash Raj needed no introduction when he appeared before an enthusiastic audience to reaffirm his views on how star power can be a good thing for political and social activism. (Kerala Literature Festival 2024)
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

“After the most enchanting descriptions of how the Thar’s residents have coaxed water and agriculture from a seemingly punishing terrain, she reveals how limestone mines, windmills, and a canal — supposedly harbingers of development — have destroyed its water sources, wildlife, agricultural fields, and knowledge nurtured over centuries. “ (Dietmar Temps/Shutterstock)
Published on Mar 15, 2024 07:54 PM IST
BySyed Saad Ahmed

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.

Sreedhar Bevara launched the celebratory edition of his book, The Roaring Lambs, in January
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

Zubeida in India's first talkie, Alam Ara, which was released on 14th March 1931 at Majestic Theatre in Bombay. (HT Photo)
Updated on Mar 15, 2024 09:06 AM IST
ByNilosree Biswas

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

Translator Antonia Lloyd Jones (Susan Bernofsky)
Published on Mar 13, 2024 08:58 PM IST
ByAmrita Talwar

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

The titular story follows a sentient automobile on an alien planet. (Shutterstock)
Published on Mar 13, 2024 07:03 PM IST
ByAreeb Ahmad

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?

Brian Klaas(Courtesy: HachetteIndia)
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

Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives (Film still)
Published on Mar 12, 2024 09:16 PM IST
ByNeeraja Srinivasan

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

Ankon Mitra with his work ‘Mycelium Mycelium’ at India Design ID. (Courtesy the artist)
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 05:32 AM IST
ByShireen Quadri

Book Box | When I see a woman read

From stolen moments to public shields, the many meanings of a woman with a book

A woman reads a book(Author)
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

A scene in Regent Street, London, in June 2022 during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd’s accession to the throne. (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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

Author Karen Powell (Courtesy the subject)
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 05:00 AM IST
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