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HT Picks: New Reads
Updated on Oct 30, 2020 04:07 PM IST
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that demystifies economic theories, an exploration of what it means to lose one’s home, and a novel about the dark power of secrets
Hindustan Times | HT Team
Interview: Shafey Kidwai, author of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation
The critic says that Sir Syed, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University, argued that religion, science and morality were mutually consistent
Updated on Oct 30, 2020 04:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Nawaid Anjum
Review: The Ultimate Goal by Vikram Sood
Former R&AW chief Vikram Sood outlines how narratives are crucial to any country’s goal of avoiding being dominated by another
Updated on Oct 30, 2020 04:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja
Excerpt: Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy by Tamal Bandyopadhyay
A new book reveals the inside story behind a spate of banking scandals. This excerpt provides a glimpse into the Kingfisher saga and the CBI investigation of the case
Updated on Oct 30, 2020 04:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Review: A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
This book is a fictional case-study for the slogan “The revolution will be feminist, or it will be nothing.”
Updated on Oct 30, 2020 03:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Saudamini Jain
Review: Moustache by S Hareesh is a novel that integrates songs and legends in a metafictional whirlpool
Set in Kerala’s Kuttanad and featuring Vavachan, who insists on keeping his moustache in defiance of caste norms, the novel, Moustache by S Hareesh, integrates local songs, legends and myths in a metafictional whirlpool.
Updated on Oct 30, 2020 03:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
We must change our understanding of people who’re addicted: David Sheff
The Beautiful Boy author on the implications of pushing addicts into depths of seclusion, the need for better reform structures and his latest book The Buddhist on Death Row
Updated on Oct 28, 2020 11:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Navneet Vyasan
Daniel Menaker, award-winning author and editor, dead at 79
Daniel Menaker, an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction and a longtime editor at The New Yorker and Random House who worked with Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann and many others, has died at age 79.
Updated on Oct 28, 2020 12:02 PM IST
New York | Press Trust of India | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
Author Mohammad Hanif explains how Army generals turned Pakistan into an ‘international jihadi tourist resort’
The Pakistan Army has cultivated the image of 180 million people of Pakistan with nuclear devices strapped to their collective body threatening to take the world down with it, said Pakistani author Mohammad Hanif.
Updated on Oct 28, 2020 10:43 AM IST
Asian News International | Posted by: Alfea Jamal
New book offers insight into Tata Group
From high-velocity practices to old-fashioned principles, a new book through people-centric episodes gives a peek-into the values that made the Tata Group the giant it is today.
Updated on Oct 27, 2020 03:54 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
DIY, eco-friendly Ravanas are a vital part of author Anuja Chauhan’s Dussehra celebrations
The bestselling author of books such as The Zoya Factor and Those Pricey Thakur Girls, Chauhan makes her own Ravanas and feels that Dussehra is a great equaliser.
Bill Bryson is retiring. Woe is us
He went from journalist to travel writer to the science teacher the world never had. The author of A Short History of Nearly Everything says he’s putting down his pen. A look back at a remarkable career.
Updated on Oct 24, 2020 03:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Natasha Rego
Review: Sudeep Sen: Selected Interviews & Conversations
A volume that covers the poet’s theories and practice, memories and challenges, innovations and experiments
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 05:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Malashri Lal
HT Picks: New Reads
On this week’s list of good reads is a Kannada litterateur’s look at Sita’s story, a book that tells you that the negative emotion of spite can have healthy outcomes, and one woman’s repudiation of the Hindu faith
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 05:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Team
Interview: Avni Doshi, author, Girl in White Cotton
The Booker nominee talks about drawing on the myth of the monstrous mother, about art, and the writers who have influenced her
Updated on Oct 24, 2020 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Simar Bhasin
Excerpt: The Khalistan Conspiracy by GBS Sidhu
This exclusive first extract from a new book recalls a former R&AW officer’s experience in the days following Operation Blue Star
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 05:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Review: The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World by S Jaishankar
S Jaishankar’s wide ranging new book covers the emerging global order, the rise of China and its attendant consequences, nationalism and its discontents, and the Mahabharata as a prism to evaluate Indian strategy
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 04:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harsh V Pant
‘Phoolsunghi’: Famous Bhojpuri novel now in English
The much-loved Bhojpuri historical novel “Phoolsunghi”, written by veteran Bhojpuri writer Pandey Kapil, has now been translated into English.
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 03:36 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
Review: The Phoenix Rises: Lockdown Chronicles edited by Amit Dasgupta
An anthology that approaches the lockdown and the pandemic from different angles
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 02:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Biswadeep Ghosh
Excerpt from Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen and Hillary Rodrigues
This extract from an essay by Hillary Rodrigues looks at the procedures and symbolism of the Bengali Durga Puja
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 01:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Hillary Rodrigues
The 12 Commandments of Being a Woman: Bhumi Pednekar-Shilpa Shetty heap praises on ‘queen’ Tahira Kashyap
From Bhumi Pednekar enjoying Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s ‘dirty secrets’ to Shilpa Shetty Kundra laughing her ‘guts out’, here is a celeb review of The 12 Commandments of Being a Woman
Updated on Oct 23, 2020 01:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Zarafshan Shiraz
Interview: Creators of the controversial Tanishq ad
The team that worked on the controversial ad film featuring a Hindu woman and her Muslim mother-in-law that caused an uproar last week talks about creative freedom, advertising, censorship and politics
Updated on Oct 21, 2020 04:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mihir Chitre
Row in Hungary around children’s book fuels fears of rising homophobia
Budapest Boldizsar Nagy hoped that the tales in the children’s book “Wonderland Is For Everyone” would help youngsters to learn to accept minorities and fight social ostracism. Instead, it has caused a stir in Hungarian politics.
Updated on Oct 19, 2020 08:33 PM IST
Budapest | Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
Stephen King’s thriller ‘Mr. Mercedes’ gets another chance
The pitch-dark series is based on Stephen King’s best-selling Bill Hodges trilogy and follows a retired, ornery detective tormented by a seriously troubled serial killer.
Updated on Oct 17, 2020 06:38 PM IST
New York | Associated Press | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
How to be happier: Lilly Singh and ‘Think Like a Monk’ author Jay Shetty decode how to stop emotions from ruling you
Giving us much needed life lessons in one go, Youtube sensation and NBC’s talk show host Lilly Singh shared an interactive video with ‘Think Like a Monk’ author Jay Shetty and advised fans on ‘how to live a happier life and how to train your brain to benefit you’ | Watch
Updated on Oct 19, 2020 12:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Zarafshan Shiraz
I write for the curious, says Namwali Serpell, winner of the Arthur C Clarke award
The Old Drift is a sweeping family saga trailing four generations of three overlapping families — Black, White and Brown — but it is really the story of a nation, Zambia.
Updated on Oct 18, 2020 12:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Interview: Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste talks about her Booker-nominated novel, The Shadow King, a story about women at the forefront of war during Benito Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935
Updated on Oct 16, 2020 05:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Nawaid Anjum
HT Picks: New Reads
This week’s interesting reads includes a portrait of a genius, a former R&AW man’s look at a troubled chapter in the nation’s recent history, and a study of the remarkable miniatures in the TAPI Collection
Updated on Oct 16, 2020 04:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Team
Interview: Stephen Alter, author, Feral Dreams; Mowgli and his Mothers
In his new novel, Stephen Alter takes the story of Mowgli, the protagonist of Kipling’s classic Jungle Book, forward in time and into fresh terrain
Updated on Oct 16, 2020 04:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Asad Ali
Review: 10 Indian Champions Who Are Fighting To Save the Planet by Bijal Vachharajani and Radha Rangarajan
A glowing tribute to the work of individual environmentalists and traditional communities that engage in conservation practices
Updated on Oct 16, 2020 04:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chintan Girish Modi
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