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HT Picks; New Reads
Published on Mar 10, 2023 05:46 PM IST
On the reading list this week is a book on one of Mumbai’s most baffling crimes, a volume that uses patachitra and comics toexplore the impact of famine on Indians, and a handbook for those looking for a way to sell everything from washing powder to fintech
HT Team
Review: Beloved Rongomala by Shaheen Akhtar, translated by Shabnam Nadiya
An intricate novel filled with asides, descriptions and observations where even minor characters show up with generational biographical sketches
Published on Mar 10, 2023 05:45 PM IST
Saudamini Jain
Review: The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
In his latest book, Mukherjee argues that we need to look at the interconnectedness between the trillions of cells in the body as well as between cells and the environment
Published on Mar 10, 2023 05:44 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
The pressure to be ‘good’: Controversy and women’s writing in India
Following International Women’s Day on March 8, here’s a list of figures whose words continue to have great power
Updated on Mar 09, 2023 07:16 PM IST
Shoma A Chatterji
Review: Legend of the Snow Queen by Manjiri Prabhu
The latest Re Parkar destination thriller reconciles the conflict between surprise and suspense and provides a resolution that is unpredictable yet satisfying
Published on Mar 09, 2023 05:18 PM IST
Ashwin Sanghi
Mani Rao, translator, Saundarya Lahari: I translate when a text takes hold of me
At the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2023, Rao spoke about ‘Wave of Beauty’, the English translation of the Sanskrit text attributed to Adi Shankaracharya.
Updated on Mar 09, 2023 08:02 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Reading The Alice Project by Satwik Gade
A novel that examines its eponymous protagonist’s quest for meaning and his attempts to create a solid foundation for himself even as he battles a perpetual sense of emptiness
Updated on Mar 06, 2023 04:11 PM IST
Saleem Rashid Shah
Book Box: The Goddess, the Writer of Science, and Women Who Fight
Celebrate the upcoming Women’s Day by reading these three books about women fighters. Anald meet Mahima Vashisht, the fiery and fearless newsletter writer.
Updated on Mar 06, 2023 04:08 PM IST
Women’s Day 2023 Aanchal Malhotra: History-writing can no longer be male dominated
As India celebrates 75 years of its independence, writer Aanchal Malhotra continues to narrate history through her words. Basking in the success of her latest work — The Book of Everlasting Things — she shares what it takes to make the female voice heard in the past, present and future.
Published on Mar 04, 2023 10:50 AM IST
Henna Rakheja, New Delhi
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s list of interesting reads includes a memoir on the pleasures of bibliophily, a book that looks at the history of human migration, and the Maruti Suzuki story told through the voices of the workers
Published on Mar 03, 2023 10:20 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Tsering Yangzom Lama, author, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies - “Tibetans are always translating”
On exile, placing women at the centre of the narrative, and how the structure of Tibetan stories aligns with a samsaric understanding of life
Updated on Mar 04, 2023 11:58 AM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: Talking Life; Javed Akhtar In conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir
In this conversational biography, poet, lyricist, and screenplay writer Javed Akhtar looks back at his struggles, mistakes, and penchant for swimming against the tide
Published on Mar 03, 2023 09:50 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Review: In Hard Times; Security in a Time of Insecurity edited by Manoj Joshi, Praveen Swami and Nishtha Gautam
A new collection of essays outlines a security strategy to address the challenges of China and Pakistan
Published on Mar 03, 2023 09:46 PM IST
Pravin Sawhney
Report: Kolkata Literary Meet 2023
Refreshing conversations and weighty discussions transpired alongside each other at the 11th edition of the event
Updated on Mar 03, 2023 03:17 PM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Excerpt: Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller
This extract from a new book, that presents the historical movements of everyone from the Vikings, African Americans, and the Jews to the Yahgans, Pocahontas and the Chinese, looks at how the argument about ancient migration is part of the struggle over the identity of modern India
Updated on Mar 03, 2023 10:09 AM IST
Sam Miller
Interview: Shahrukhkhan Chavada, director, Kayo Kayo Colour
Screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the film follows the daily life of a Muslim family in an Ahmedabad ghetto
Updated on Mar 03, 2023 10:05 AM IST
Arun AK
Review: The Laughter by Sonora Jha
White rage, racial prejudice and Muslim identity coalesce in this novel set in Seattle in the days preceding the 2016 US Presidential elections
Published on Mar 01, 2023 07:31 PM IST
Neha Kirpal
Essay: Hit by a semal flower
A meditation on the appearance of these magnificent blooms that signal spring in Delhi
Updated on Feb 28, 2023 05:25 PM IST
Prerna Jain
Review: Life of an Industani: Six Degrees of Separation by Shiv Kunal Verma
From the 1984 Delhi carnage to the Bhopal gas tragedy, from human animal conflict stories to abject poverty in late 20th century India, this autobiography is also an account of India’s sociopolitical landscape from the 1980s to the present
Updated on Mar 04, 2023 12:31 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Book Box: Become a Master Persuader
Use these five techniques to get what you want. And meet Akash Rebello, the man who makes a living from persuasion.
Updated on Feb 28, 2023 08:46 AM IST
Andrew Sean Greer: “I am not very good at being angry”
The author of Less and Less is Lost talks about people being nice to him on Instagram, the fictional representations of older gay men, and about winning the Pulitzer Prize
Published on Feb 24, 2023 08:08 PM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that traces the evolution of photography in the subcontinent from the nineteenth century to the present, a tome that attempts to answer the question of whether Hindutva is different from Hinduism, and a biography of one of Twentieth century America’s most dynamic novelists
Updated on Feb 24, 2023 08:07 PM IST
HT Team
Review: Hitopadesha by Narayana, translated by Shonaleeka Kaul
Flexible and open to multiple interpretations, the Hitopadesha’s tales of wisdom from birds and beasts have a cross-cultural appeal
Updated on Feb 24, 2023 08:04 PM IST
Sudhirendar Sharma
Review: The Anglo-Indians byBarry O’Brien
“Dear Anglos leaving India, Where you running off to men? Where? England? You going back home? Go, you buggers, go! Go see
Published on Feb 24, 2023 08:02 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Miranda Seymour: ‘Jean Rhys was far ahead of her time’
In an email interaction, biographer Miranda Seymour talked about visiting Roseau, the birthplace of the Dominican-British writer, to chronicle her adventurous life influenced by the island’s wild colours, smells, and conflicted history
Updated on Feb 25, 2023 05:14 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Excerpt: Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in South Asia
This edited extract from Mrinalini Venkateswara’s essay featured in a new book on photography in the Indian subcontinent looks at the accomplished work of Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II of Jaipur.
Updated on Feb 23, 2023 07:32 PM IST
Mrinalini Venkateswaran
Review: Death in Shambles by Stephen Alter
Retired Lionel Carmichael returns to the sleepy hill station of Debrakot expecting to lead a quiet life but quickly finds himself investigating a shocking double murder
Published on Feb 23, 2023 04:33 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Chaitanya Tamhane: ‘Creating poetry out of the very ordinary attracts me’
The director of Court and The Disciple talks about breaking out of the arthouse bubble and exploring new directions, and about his journey so far.
Updated on Feb 24, 2023 04:50 PM IST
Mihir Chitre
Report: International Kolkata Book Fair 2023
This year, Asia’s largest book fair, with over 900 stalls and 20 participating countries, drew 26 lakh visitors and sold books worth more than ₹25 crore.
Updated on Feb 23, 2023 01:09 PM IST
Chittajit Mitra
Review: Way of the Witch by Ipsita Roy Chakraverti
Written in a conversational style, this book which presents witches as icons of women’s empowerment maligned by mainstream religions, also shares tenets to help Wiccans get ahead
Updated on Feb 20, 2023 05:04 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
