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Book Box | Stories from India’s margins
Published on Aug 12, 2023 03:43 PM IST
Five books that unveil India's borderlands and their hidden tales. From arid deserts to lush coasts, here's a rich tapestry of cultures and human resilience.
HT Picks; New Reads
On the list of interesting reads this week is an account of Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War, a volume that goes beyond the news headlines to show how some of the most important political decisions in independent India were taken, and 16 beautiful stories on same sex love translated from the original Hindi
Updated on Aug 11, 2023 08:07 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Shubhra Gupta, author, Irrfan Khan: A Life in Movies
On how Irrfan pushed boundaries with each film and, in the process, blurred the lines between an actor and a star
Updated on Aug 11, 2023 08:13 PM IST
Majid Maqbool
Review: Famine Tales; A Graphic Anthology edited by Ayesha Mukherjee et al
A graphic anthology arising from the collaborative efforts of traditional scroll painters and modern comic artists, Famine Tales from India and Britain seeks to facilitate a comparative understanding of famine, dearth, and food security issues in India and Britain
Updated on Aug 11, 2023 08:05 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Review: Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
A deep study of planet Earth’s waste crisis, Wasteland looks at the enduring impact of the things we throw away
Updated on Aug 12, 2023 10:16 AM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Interview: Rahul Soni, translator - “Is hopefulness a truthful stance?”
On translating ‘Magadh’ and ‘The Roof Beneath Their Feet’ from the original Hindi, the hubris of power, and how awards don’t automatically mean a spike in sales
Updated on Aug 11, 2023 04:41 PM IST
Kinshuk Gupta
Review: Understanding the India China Border by Manoj Joshi
A painstakingly researched book on the border issue, it includes the interactions the author has had with those associated with the dispute
Updated on Aug 11, 2023 08:14 AM IST
Pravin Sawhney
Review: Beyond the Story; 10-year Record of BTS by Myeongseok Kang
A book that celebrates the Korean boy band’s journey and offers a glimpse of how BTS came to be the phenomenon they are
Updated on Aug 10, 2023 08:14 PM IST
Rahul Singh
Book to film: On Oppenheimer and American Prometheus
A look at how Christopher Nolan’s film builds on Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s scholarly biography of the famed physicist
Updated on Aug 09, 2023 09:01 PM IST
Interview: Siddhartha Deb – ‘Our present crisis did not arrive out of nowhere’
The author’s latest novel, The Light at the End of the World, explores the past, present and future of India by interweaving and connecting different times
Updated on Aug 08, 2023 04:25 PM IST
Majid Maqbool
Five books by Leon Uris that entwine history and fiction
In the week following the author’s 99th birth anniversary, a look at his best works
Updated on Aug 07, 2023 10:04 PM IST
Teja Lele
Book Box: Five must-hear podcasts that will transform your reading
Dive into these five podcasts to supercharge your reading. And meet Tara Khandelwal of Books and Beyond with Bound
Published on Aug 05, 2023 05:27 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
The list of interesting reads this week includes a novel featuring an unlikely set of friends in a city insistent on alienating them, a volume on how the diverse peoples inhabiting the valley of the vast Brahmaputra river became part of India, and a book about two misfits who discover they are kindred souls
Updated on Aug 04, 2023 10:32 PM IST
HT Team
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - “Writing about the Vietnam war took a toll on me”
The author of Dust Child believes writers can foster peace and understanding to prevent armed conflicts
Updated on Aug 04, 2023 10:27 PM IST
Shireen Quadri
Review: Who Killed Moosewala? by Jupinderjit Singh
A book that goes into the possible reasons behind the murder of the Punjabi rapper while also shedding light on the cult of Moosewala
Updated on Aug 04, 2023 10:23 PM IST
Mayank Jain Parichha
Review: Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated by Rahul Soni
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi award in 1987, Shrikant Verma’s Magadh, which has been translated into English by Rahul Soni, is a fine example of Nayi Kavita, whose practitioners believed poetry was political and a way to respond to systemic inequalities
Updated on Aug 04, 2023 10:22 PM IST
Kinshuk Gupta
Essay: Titahri Tales
The discovery of a red-wattled lapwing’s nest provokes a rumination on the many folk beliefs about this high strung bird with a hysterical shriek
Published on Aug 04, 2023 10:12 PM IST
Excerpt: Northeast India; A Political History by Samrat Choudhury
This extract from a book on the varied cultural, religious, social and political histories of the states of the northeast looks at how Partition changed Tripura
Updated on Aug 03, 2023 10:52 PM IST
Samrat Choudhury
Review: Widows of Colonial Bengal by Aishika Chakraborty
A heightening patriarchal preoccupation with marriage and sexuality placed the figure of the widow at the centre of the conflict between reformism and nationalism in Bengal during the British Raj
Updated on Aug 04, 2023 12:44 AM IST
Shoma A Chatterji
Essay: On yearning for extinct sounds
Many sounds are disappearing from our lives. A rumination on the necessity to preserve our sonic cultures
Updated on Aug 02, 2023 09:07 PM IST
Sumana Roy
Interview: TM Krishna - “Guilt is a form of escapism. It is an excuse”
The activist, writer and Carnatic vocalist talks about finding a new audience, understanding Ambedkar and Narayana Guru, and his work on a exploratory new book
Updated on Aug 01, 2023 08:28 PM IST
Essay: The Barbie-fication of wokeness
While the cult of Barbie has a feminist aura, the doll actually panders to different superficialities.
Updated on Jul 31, 2023 08:48 PM IST
Farzana Versey
Book Box | 5 thrilling books to snap you out of that reading slump
A tech thriller, a snarky college admissions story, YA with a video game backdrop, a murder mystery in the Hindi heartlands and a thriller in the Hamptons
Published on Jul 29, 2023 12:39 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s reading list includes a retelling of the story of how the princely states joined India, a “memory history” of the Tibetan struggle, and a selection of the best literary short fiction written by Indians
Updated on Jul 28, 2023 05:46 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Vishes Kothari - “Translation does become an act of activism”
Translator Vishes Kothari discusses his inspiration for translating Rajasthani author Vijaydan Detha's work, the challenges of conveying sociocultural contexts, and the importance of preserving regional languages. Kothari also highlights the rise in linguistic identity assertion and the work of the Rajasthani Bhasha Academy in promoting the language. They express their plans to translate more Rajasthani authors in the future.
Updated on Jul 28, 2023 05:52 PM IST
Chittajit Mitra
Review: Queers in QuarantineEdited by Koyote Millar and Rahul Sen
A collection of poems, stories, journal entries and photo essays on how queer people across the world experienced the pandemic
Updated on Jul 28, 2023 06:02 PM IST
Review: The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel
From hydroelectric dams to prison tattoos and Stalinist cookery books, this compendious volume touches on nearly every area of Russian history and the Soviet experience
Updated on Jul 28, 2023 05:43 PM IST
Essay: Beatrix Potter- The author who invented character merchandising
On the 157th birth anniversary of the author today, a look at the enduring appeal of her books and at her genius for marketing her work
Updated on Jul 28, 2023 04:22 PM IST
Teja Lele
Mash-up madness: Welcome to Barbenheimer
The same-day release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was expected to cause a cultural fission. Instead, we got fusion
Updated on Jul 27, 2023 07:00 PM IST
Review: Violent Fraternity by Shruti Kapila
Offering a fresh interpretation of the works of key Indian political figures to widen our understanding of political thought
Updated on Jul 27, 2023 02:38 PM IST
Shaikh Mujibur Rehman
