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Updated on Dec 09, 2023 09:36 AM IST
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a fresh take on vegetarian and vegan cooking, a diplomat’s book on how India negotiates with the world, and a graphic novel about a gambling addict trying to wean himself off the game
HT Team
Rakhshanda Jalil – “I refuse to be bullied or marginalised”
On Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times, the new anthology she has edited and translated, that features fiction by Surendra Prakash, Qurratulain Hyder, Zakia Mashhadi, Gulzar, Khalid Jawed, and Ali Imam Naqvi, among others
Updated on Dec 09, 2023 09:34 AM IST
Review: Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest collection of stories captures the global migration crisis of this century and is of great significance in this time of xenophobia
Updated on Dec 09, 2023 09:38 AM IST
Saudamini Jain
Review: Through the Broken Glass by TN Seshan
The former Chief Election Commissioner’s autobiography, published posthumously, chronicles his career and details his attempts to establish that the Executive is not merely a rubber stamp of the Legislature
Updated on Dec 09, 2023 09:28 AM IST
Animal and online outrage
The Internet expects everybody to condemn the film or get cancelled. A look at how, despite easy access to brutal material, we demand sanitised cinema
Published on Dec 08, 2023 04:06 PM IST
Farzana Versey
Review: Why Didn’t You Come Sooner? by Kailash Satyarthi
The Nobel laureate’s new book recounts the stories of 12 rescued child labourers interspersed with wisdom gleaned over many years of interacting with children in dire circumstances
Published on Dec 08, 2023 12:01 PM IST
Neha Kirpal
Review: Clearly Invisible in Paris by Koel Purie Rinchet
A novel about the lives of four women who are all strangers to Paris, a glamorous city with a seedy underbelly, that tests the protagonists and their friendships
Updated on Dec 07, 2023 03:51 PM IST
Percy Bharucha
Review: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Set during the pandemic, Ann Patchett’s latest novel revolves around the powerful theme of making life choices
Updated on Dec 07, 2023 05:16 AM IST
Hritik Verma
Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl: A match made in picture-book heaven
From The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar to The Swan, The Rat Catcher and Poison, a look at how Anderson handles four of Dahl’s stories on Netflix
Published on Dec 05, 2023 09:36 PM IST
Review: The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
The pop star’s memoir, that mulls over her dysfunctional family, toxic romantic relationships and the abusive conservatorship, reflects on her tumultuous life
Published on Dec 05, 2023 09:18 PM IST
Deepansh Duggal
Euphemism and exaggeration are both dangers to language
But verbal extremism is now the bigger threat
Published on Dec 04, 2023 10:00 AM IST
The Economist
Book Box | Why I changed my mind about reading climate change books
A picture book, a thriller, environmental reporting and YA novels help me change my mind about reading on climate change
Published on Dec 03, 2023 08:30 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that attempts to highlight what has gone wrong with India’s polity and society, another that looks at Bangladesh and asks important questions about the nature of identity, religion, and the idea of “home”, and a public intellectual’s moving narrative of his personal and professional journey
Updated on Dec 02, 2023 10:04 AM IST
HT Team
Anuja Chauhan, author, The Fast and the Dead - “I turn to humour every time”
On her second whodunnit that’s set around the ritual of Karwa Chauth and the “murders most meticulous” that unfold after that night
Updated on Dec 02, 2023 10:02 AM IST
Huzan Tata
Review: Forests, Blood & Survival by Bhoopal
Actor-writer Bhoopal reimagines the life of Komuram Bheem, a legendary Gond tribal leader, and his fight against the exploitation of the tribals by the rich and powerful.
Updated on Dec 02, 2023 10:00 AM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Review: Fire on the Ganges byRadhika Iyengar
The ceaselessly burning pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi is a living spectacle, where death asserts itself as the last witness to life.
Updated on Dec 02, 2023 09:58 AM IST
Sudhirendar Sharma
John le Carre and the art of deception
In The Pigeon Tunnel, the Apple TV+ film, Errol Morris sits down with novelist John le Carre to sharpen the blur of fact and fiction, truth and memory
Published on Dec 01, 2023 06:46 PM IST
Review: Fahmida Riaz: The Iconic Iconoclast by Subodh Lal
An illuminating new book presents Urdu poet Fahmida Riaz’s stirring attempts to seek an identity in a world of male desire
Published on Nov 30, 2023 06:44 PM IST
Shafey kidwai
Interview: Karan Vyas - “On OTT, people look for more authenticity”
The screenwriter, who has worked on shows like Scam 1992 and Scoop, on his journey so far, his dreams, and why streaming shows based on real events do so well
Published on Nov 30, 2023 06:21 PM IST
Mihir Chitre
BN Goswamy: Elevating the artist over the patron
A tribute to a beloved teacher, curator, and scholar who produced rigorous but accessible work on Pahari and Indian miniature painting
Published on Nov 29, 2023 03:48 PM IST
Review: The Way We Were by Prajwal Hegde
A workplace rom-com set in Bengaluru and Mumbai, Prajwal Hegde’s second novel occasionally reads like a feel-good film script
Published on Nov 27, 2023 09:00 PM IST
Neha Kirpal
The five best books to understand AI
Specialists outside the field do better at explaining the implications
Published on Nov 27, 2023 09:00 AM IST
The Economist
Writer Robin Sharma to managers: Culture is your weapon to fight coffee badging
International bestselling author Robin Sharma talks exclusively to HT City and addresses the elephant in the room in the post-pandemic workplace set-up.
Published on Nov 26, 2023 02:37 PM IST
Eight of the best spy novels
Former spooks make especially strong authors
Published on Nov 26, 2023 11:00 AM IST
The Economist
Book Box | Write, pitch, face rejection, learn
As National Novel Writing Month ends, novelist Siddhartha Deb and literary agent Kanishka Gupta offer insights on what it takes to become an author
Published on Nov 26, 2023 08:30 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s reading list includes a volume that presents a radically new perspective on India’s modern Buddhist revival, the definitive account of the Aryans that offers a grand sweep of language, histories and conflict, and a cookbook that presents stories about the origins of spices and how they can be used
Updated on Nov 25, 2023 06:08 AM IST
HT Team
Review: The Secret City by Robin Gupta
A novel that presents the gay underbelly of 1950s Delhi and offers a rich cartography of its queer spaces
Updated on Nov 25, 2023 06:10 AM IST
Kinshuk Gupta
Yamini Narayanan - “We have no understanding of what cows endure as dairy animals ”
The author of Mother Cow Mother India talks about how cows are both commodified for dairy production and deified as a mother and goddess, and how dairy products are intensely connected with cow slaughter
Updated on Nov 25, 2023 05:58 AM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: The Indian Cat by BN Goswamy
The late art historian BN Goswamy’s last book, a collection of tales, paintings, poems and proverbs, pays homage to the sassy Indian cat
Updated on Nov 25, 2023 05:54 AM IST
Suhit Bombaywala
Free Comic Book Day 2024 offers popular manga and anime titles for free
Over 2000 comic book stores to participate in Free Comic Book Day 2024
Published on Nov 24, 2023 10:16 PM IST
