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Review: A Walk up the Hill by Madhav Gadgil
Updated on Oct 18, 2023 06:06 PM IST
A memoir that speaks against the hegemony of industrialists and governmental bodies and is also a study of Indian environmental movements
Yashodhara Sirur
Shivaji Das, Yolanda Yu - “The objective was to make migrant workers visible”
The authors of The Visible Invisibles talk about the life stories of low-wage migrant workers that touch on wage theft, racism and unsafe working conditions
Published on Oct 17, 2023 08:40 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: The Sufi’s Nightingale by Sarbpreet Singh
A fictionalised account of the life of a 16th-century Punjabi mystic and poet, Madho Lal Hussain, this novel unravels the tale of transcendental love and faith
Published on Oct 16, 2023 09:02 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Book Box | 6 books, 3 podcasts to help you understand Israel-Palestine conflict
A list to help you wrap your head around the recent Hamas attack and the subsequent escalation of the long-simmering tension in West Asia
Published on Oct 15, 2023 09:02 AM IST
Movies as endless commercials
Films are no longer just a catalyst to sell pre-existing product lines. Instead, as Barbie, Air and Flamin’ Hot show, they have become obsessed with mythifying the product itself
Published on Oct 14, 2023 11:39 AM IST
Tess Gunty, author, The Rabbit Hutch– ‘I never force a moral project on my work’
The winner of the US National Book Award for fiction on being transported to an extraordinary place when she’s writing
Updated on Oct 14, 2023 08:04 AM IST
Shireen Quadri
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a cookbook that celebrates the versatility of Indian street food, a volume that combines enthralling nature writing and journalism with immersive art and photography, and a granular account of the harshness of prison life
Updated on Oct 14, 2023 06:44 AM IST
HT Team
Review: Quarterlife by Devika Rege
Devika Rege’s debut novel is a collective portrait of 2014 that gives voice to a contrasting group of millennials
Updated on Oct 14, 2023 06:40 AM IST
Saudamini Jain
Review: Becoming Baba Saheb by Aakash Singh Rathore
While Aakash Singh Rathore’s writing occasionally teeters on the edge of adulation, on the whole, Becoming Baba Saheb conveys Ambedkar’s achievements in a way that’s dispassionate yet engrossing
Updated on Oct 14, 2023 09:02 AM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
What to read by and about Iranian women
The authors of these five books describe the complexity and hardship of women’s lives in Iran
Published on Oct 13, 2023 07:16 PM IST
The Economist
Lit talk at this fest will celebrate writer Khushwant Singh's legacy
All roads for bibliophiles lead to the hills as the three-day festival at Kasauli, dedicated to late writer Khushwant Singh, returns with 50 plus speakers.
Published on Oct 13, 2023 08:54 AM IST
On Bhutan’s emerging publishing scene
With the rise of self publishing and a fresh generation of authors and creative entrepreneurs, Bhutan is writing a new chapter of its literary history
Published on Oct 12, 2023 08:56 PM IST
Shireen Quadri
Essay: Defiance in tough times
For centuries, writers and commentators have been persecuted for merely holding views contrary to those in power
Published on Oct 11, 2023 08:43 PM IST
Farzana Versey
Review: The Peacemakers by Ghazala Wahab
A collection of 12 essays by a diverse group of writers focuses on people who have risked their lives to bring about peace in the midst of violence
Published on Oct 11, 2023 08:29 PM IST
Have patience and be persistent: Sudha Murty’s advice to the youth
Author-philanthropist Sudha Murty talks to us about receiving the Global Indian award, facing social media trolls and more
Published on Oct 11, 2023 12:18 PM IST
Adventures at ground Ziro
Bands like Taba Chake, Jatayu and the Boo Boo Bama Orchestra made great music at this year’s Ziro Festival in Arunachal Pradesh
Published on Oct 10, 2023 08:24 PM IST
Mihir Chitre
Interview: Vikramajit Ram, author, Mansur - “It all comes to edit, edit, edit”
On the historical novel set in the Mughal era that’s on the longlist for the JCB Prize for Literature this year
Published on Oct 09, 2023 08:41 PM IST
Israel-Palestine conflict: 5 must-read books for comprehensive understanding
Explore these five books to gain a comprehensive understanding of the long-standing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Published on Oct 09, 2023 10:45 AM IST
Book Box | A favourite short story and the latest Cormoran Strike
Journeying through 'The Paper Menagerie,' 'The Covenant of Water,' and Robert Galbraith's (JK Rowling's pseudonym) latest 'The Running Grave'
Published on Oct 07, 2023 07:06 PM IST
Review: Heavy Metal by Ameer Shahul
An in-depth account of how a multinational company disregarded human and natural welfare, which led to worker fatalities and the irreversible poisoning of Kodaikanal’s pristine ecosystem
Updated on Oct 07, 2023 09:24 AM IST
Sudhirendar Sharma
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s list of interesting reads includes a book on the North Sentinelese tribe of the Andaman Islands, a collection of 12 accounts of rescued child slaves, and a volume on the cat in our written and oral literatures
Updated on Oct 07, 2023 09:24 AM IST
HT Team
Nishant Injam – “I felt like an alien entering a posh land”
The author of The Best Possible Experience talks about culture shock, the disorientation that comes with immigration, and writing his way out of his software job
Updated on Oct 07, 2023 09:34 AM IST
Saudamini Jain
Review: Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh
The author’s new non fiction volume unravels the close ties between the colonial opium trade and the emergence of modernity
Updated on Oct 07, 2023 09:38 AM IST
Uttaran Das Gupta
Review: Heavy Metal by Ameer Shahul
An in-depth account of how a multinational company disregarded human and natural welfare, which led to worker fatalities and the irreversible poisoning of Kodaikanal’s pristine ecosystem
Updated on Oct 07, 2023 09:28 AM IST
Sudhirendar Sharma
Review: In Ascension by Martin McInnes
A beautifully written novel that juxtaposes the value of an individual life with the value of our planet, home to millions of species of living organisms
Updated on Oct 09, 2023 12:19 PM IST
Hritik Verma
The English moors: of furze, whinstone and wild passion
From the Brontës to Arthur Conan Doyle and Paul Kingsnorth, this dark and wind-blasted landscape has inspired authors down the ages
Published on Oct 05, 2023 09:08 PM IST
Teja Lele
Review: The Portrait of a Secret by Tarun Mehrishi
A painter fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution, the Cold War, a dead Indian Prime Minister and a daring art heist... With a narrative that merges actual historical characters and events with fiction, this novel keeps readers guessing
Updated on Oct 05, 2023 04:52 PM IST
Saleem Rashid Shah
Humans of Thimphu: An archive of portraits, one story at a time
Street photographer Tandin Phurba talks about building an archive of the hopes and dreams, struggles and triumphs of the people of Bhutan
Published on Oct 04, 2023 10:41 PM IST
Shireen Quadri
A writer living on fiktion
On how the author’s time on a fellowship in Germany led him into a quagmire of Kafkaesque bureaucracy and made him confront the inscrutable ways of power
Updated on Oct 03, 2023 02:02 PM IST
Maaz Bin Bilal
Interview: David Hardiman, author, Noncooperation in India
On Gandhi Jayanti, one of the founding members of the Subaltern Studies Group talks about writing a history of the Noncooperation Movement
Updated on Oct 02, 2023 04:50 PM IST
