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HT Picks; New Reads
Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:10 AM IST
On the reading list this week is a book that presents the core concepts of AI and its implications in different fields of law, a collection of the diverse tales of a secluded tribe from the Patkai hills bordering Myanmar, and an actor-director’s memoir that also shows how cinema and theatre have evolved in India since the early 1970s

Mark Haddon: “Death is the engine that sits at the centre of all fiction”
On his latest book, Dogs and Monsters, the enduring popularity of his best-known novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and why short stories should be entertaining

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:08 AM IST
Review: The Last Time I Saw You by Akhil Katyal
In Akhil Katyal’s new book of poems, which uses playfulness as a technique to deliver an emotional payload, his narrator is an auto-ethnographer, closely analysing the various phrases of love between two men

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:04 AM IST
Review: Ratan Tata: A Life by Thomas Mathew
While the author’s admiration for his subject is evident, the book also presents details of the challenges that the Tata Group faced during its rapid growth through Ratan Tata’s serial foreign acquisitions

Published on Dec 13, 2024 10:59 PM IST
Review: Sanatan by Sharankumar Limbale
A sprawling work that presents the story of a Mahar named Bhimnak and his family in pre-Independence India, this is also an examination of the collective punishment wrecked on untouchables and Adivasis by upper castes across geographies

Updated on Dec 12, 2024 10:09 PM IST
Report: Prithvi Theatre Festival 2024
With dastangoi performances, plays based on poems and short stories and musical interludes, the 39th edition of the annual festival had much to offer

Published on Dec 12, 2024 04:52 PM IST
Seeing enchantment in the everyday: a letter to Arun Kolatkar
Two decades after Kolatkar’s death, a writer makes a pilgrimage of sorts to the Mumbai art precinct immortalised in Kala Ghoda Poems

Published on Dec 11, 2024 08:07 PM IST
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih: “I believe in literary ambidextrousness”
The winner of the 2024 Shakti Bhatt Prize, who writes poetry, drama and fiction in Khasi and English talks about his journey as a writer

Updated on Dec 10, 2024 08:06 PM IST
Of bookish music
On The Bookshop Band that performs original songs inspired by ghost stories, fantasy, crime literature and books about love.

Published on Dec 09, 2024 10:57 AM IST
Rainbow Lit Fest: Authors, artistes assemble in Delhi for queer, inclusive fest
Talks, films, music acts and drag shows will highlighting the issues of LGBTQ. Filmmakers Hansal Mehta, Faraz Ansari, and actor Sandhya Mridul will join too.

Published on Dec 08, 2024 10:25 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is an intimate and objective picture of a nation that has managed to withstand American sanctions for over six decades, a story of how a publisher and editor loses himself trying to find Kabir, and a memoir about a life spent studying India’s birds and landscapes and fighting for endangered species

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:30 AM IST
Inside India’s ‘secret Cold War’
Paul McGarr, lecturer in Intelligence Studies at King’s College, London, and author, ‘Spying in South Asia’ talks about the extent of the involvement of MI6, CIA and others in post-colonial India and why the considerable contribution of Indian agencies during the Cold War has been largely overlooked

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:26 AM IST
Review: Dalithan by KK Kochu
The literary critic and activist KK Kochu’s memoir, translated from the original Malayalam, shows that, despite the communist revolution in Kerala

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:16 AM IST
Review: The Golden Road by William Dalrymple
Written engagingly and often drawing from new finds in archaeology, this book is rich in historical detail

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:04 AM IST
Review: Out There Screaming; An Anthology of New Black Horror
A collection of stories that include some that send a shiver down your spine and others that focus on the systemic oppression of Black Americans.

Published on Dec 06, 2024 02:08 PM IST
Review: A Slight Angle by Ruth Vanita
Set in the 1920s against the backdrop of a nation increasingly intent on getting rid of British rule, A Slight Angle focuses on the desires, ambition and queerness of a group of people who just want to be themselves

Updated on Dec 05, 2024 03:12 PM IST
Report: Bhutan Innovation Forum
The three-day event, that featured everyone from members of the Himalayan nation’s royal family and Nobel laureates to CEOs, artists and monks, showed that the world has much to learn from Bhutan about harmonizing tradition and modernity

Updated on Dec 04, 2024 06:56 PM IST
Futuristic technology from the ancient past
On the Vaimanika Shastra, a Sanskrit manual that surfaced in the early 20th century, that described ancient aircraft that seem akin to UFOs

Published on Dec 03, 2024 09:14 PM IST
Garth Greenwell: “The book is structured like nesting dolls of brokenness”
The author of ‘Small Rain’ talks about what it means to care for things and to be cared for, and how all his books are interested in asymmetrical relationships

Published on Dec 02, 2024 07:06 PM IST
Book Box: The Secrets of Winter Reading
How you can use winter to change the way you read

Published on Nov 30, 2024 10:23 AM IST
Looking back at MAMI 2024
Though the festival was shorter and the venues and screenings fewer, this year’s edition underlined how events like these give oxygen to smaller and braver films

Published on Nov 29, 2024 09:16 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a study of cannabis in India that is both entertaining and enlightening, a book on the new print culture in the north Indian Hindi sphere of the 1950s and 1960s, and a six-book set of Sanskrit shlokas for children

Published on Nov 29, 2024 08:59 PM IST
Lavanya Lakshminarayan: “Sci-fi is a reflection of what makes us human”
Interstellar Megachef, the latest novel from a nominee of the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction, features Saraswati Kaveri, a refugee from Earth, and Serenity Ko, who work together to change the way people experience food in a futuristic universe

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 08:58 PM IST
Review: Go Wild edited by Bijal Vachharajani
With central themes of speciesism and the human-animal relationship, this compilation of essays, short stories and comics celebrates the earth in all its glorious bounty

Published on Nov 29, 2024 08:57 PM IST
Review: Islands in Flux; The Andaman and Nicobar Story
First published in 2017 and updated this year in the context of the Indian government’s push to build a shipping terminal, airport, and power plant in the ecologically sensitive region, Pankaj Sekhsaria’s Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story, comprising essays, academic papers, obituaries, court orders and a historical timeline, highlights misguided government policies and their deleterious impact on the archipelago’s indigenous communities, forests, and wildlife

Published on Nov 29, 2024 08:54 PM IST
Review: The Black Orphan by S Hussain Zaidi
A riveting tale of love, terror and revenge featuring a super cop and a human rights lawyer, this thriller is a tribute to Indian spies

Published on Nov 28, 2024 06:27 PM IST
Review: Chikkamma Tours (Pvt) Ltd by Unmana
Set in Bengaluru, this cosy murder mystery follows three women who work at a small tour company as they try to solve the murder of the owner of the bookshop above their office

Published on Nov 27, 2024 09:46 PM IST
Maharaja Gaj Singh II: “Folk musicians are custodians of heritage”
The chief patron of Jodhpur RIFF talks about the exposure and opportunities that the event presents to Rajasthan’s folk musicians.

Updated on Nov 27, 2024 06:49 PM IST
Review: Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
A book that’s part of the slim canon of contemporary fiction and takes a direct look at the nature and effects of money.

Updated on Nov 25, 2024 05:10 PM IST
Book Box: Are You in a Reading Race?
How Goodreads stats, TBRs, and prize lists are turning reading into a competitive sport—here’s how we can slow down and savour the pages.

Updated on Nov 23, 2024 10:24 AM IST