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Review: When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala by Avijit Ghosh
Updated on Jun 23, 2023 05:03 PM IST
Avijit Ghosh's book "When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala" challenges the popular narrative that Hindi cinema in the 1980s was all about trash and flash. The author approaches the era with a cinephile's devotion, shedding light on the economic and political climate of the time and the challenges the industry faced. While the book offers insights into the Bollywood formula, it falls short of delivering on its title's tantalizing promise.
Karthik Shankar
Review: Migrants by Sam Miller
Ranging widely across time and around the world, this book is a vast exploration of stories of human migrations that have shaped the modern world
Updated on Jun 23, 2023 05:02 PM IST
Samrat Choudhury
Interview: Sumit Purohit- “No one can predict what audience is going to like.”
On Scam 92, incorporating his own life experiences in shows, and how helpful it is for writers to have a good agent
Updated on Jun 23, 2023 04:59 PM IST
Mihir Chitre
The burble of words on the water
A barge, great reads, and the feeling of being part of an enthusiastically bookish community – on browsing at an unusual London bookstore
Updated on Jun 22, 2023 09:04 PM IST
Teja Lele
Report: Sankat Mochan Sangeet Samaroh 2023
The festival, which celebrated its centenary this year, had a judicious mix of established and upcoming musicians and dancers.
Updated on Jun 22, 2023 05:41 PM IST
Manjari Sinha
Interview: Avinab Datta-Areng and Divya Nadkarni, editors, nether Quarterly
On promoting young poets, encouraging plurality, and balancing personal and professional lives with working on the literary magazine
Updated on Jun 21, 2023 07:10 PM IST
Suhit Bombaywala
Obituary: Imtiaz Ahmad, author of pioneering work on caste among Indian Muslims
An inspiring teacher and an exemplary sociologist, Imtiaz Ahmad’s four-volume opus will remain a foundational text
Updated on Jun 20, 2023 02:50 PM IST
Shaikh Mujibur Rehman
Review: Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
A page-turner that eviscerates the commodification of literature, explores the complexities of cultural appropriation and lampoons cancel culture
Updated on Jun 19, 2023 07:10 PM IST
Sumana Ramanan
Cormac McCarthy was the great novelist of the American West
His fiction faces a bloody past and never looks away
Published on Jun 18, 2023 02:33 PM IST
The Economist
Book Box: Five Gripping Family Sagas Spotlighting Fathers
Discover the complexities of fatherhood as these compelling stories delve into the joys, struggles, and transformative power of paternal relationships.
Published on Jun 17, 2023 08:42 PM IST
Saras Manickam - “We can’t run away from politics and religion”
The Malaysian author of short stories talks about confronting comfortable conventions about race, identity, discrimination and communal relations in her work
Updated on Jun 16, 2023 07:06 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a volume that shows how seaweed can help balance the ecosystem, a recipe book featuring quick and healthy foods, and the autobiography of the man who revolutionised the Indian electoral process
Updated on Jun 16, 2023 06:54 PM IST
HT Team
Review: The Garden of Tales by Vijaydan Detha, translated by Vishes Kothari
Love, wisdom and folly, deceit, and the lust for power are the themes explored in this collection of Vijaydan Detha’s stories featuring saints, sinners, insecure deities, friendly ghosts and chatty animals
Updated on Jun 16, 2023 06:54 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Review: Japanese Management, Indian Resistance
Piercing the unilateral narrative around the violence at Maruti’s Manesar factory in July 2012 – it left one dead, hundreds arrested, and thousands unemployed – to present the workers’ point of view
Updated on Jun 16, 2023 06:53 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Essay: The Cape of Silent Hope
On literary residencies and the experience of writing a new book at one in a country with a fraught past and an uncomfortable present
Updated on Jun 16, 2023 04:36 PM IST
Saikat Majumdar
Interview: Anisur Rehman “Today, the Urdu nazm is vibrant and secular”
Anisur Rahman's Hazaar Rang Shaairi discusses the evolution of the nazm over five centuries, its diverse content and secular, and cultural representations.
Updated on Jun 16, 2023 04:38 PM IST
Maaz Bin Bilal
Hansa Wadkar – a woman ahead of her time
In her centenary year, recalling the story of an actor who battled sexual oppression and wrote fearlessly about it all in her autobiography
Updated on Jun 15, 2023 06:10 PM IST
Shoma A Chatterji
Review: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov
The lives of a group of odd characters intertwine in a novel that’s a darkly humorous love letter to the Ukrainian city of Lviv
Updated on Jun 14, 2023 05:32 PM IST
Hritik Verma
Interview: Priscilla Morris - “My novel is an attempt to understand Bosnian war”
The author’s debut novel, Black Butterflies, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023, explores the Siege of Sarajevo through the story of an artist
Updated on Jun 13, 2023 09:55 PM IST
Shireen Quadri
Essay: Lessons to learn from Anne Frank’s life
The young diarist was one of six million Jews killed by Nazis during WWII. Her words continue to shine with truth and humanity on her 94th birth anniversary
Updated on Jun 13, 2023 05:48 PM IST
Teja Lele
Book Box: Didn't finish your book? It's okay
A Do Not Finish (DNF) reading strategy can help you be a happier reader. Here are 5 famous books I did not finish
Published on Jun 10, 2023 07:40 PM IST
Jacqueline Crooks, author, Fire Rush - “Lived experiences can enrich fiction”
The Jamaican-born British author whose debut novel has been shortlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction on identity, heritage and resilience
Updated on Jun 09, 2023 09:23 PM IST
Shireen Quadri
Review: Soumitra Chatterjee – His Life in Cinema and Beyond by Amitava Nag
Amitava Nag's latest book, Soumitra Chatterjee - His Life and Beyond explores the many talents and interests of the Indian cinema icon
Updated on Jun 09, 2023 09:05 PM IST
Shoma A Chatterji
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a slim volume on eight women who observed the birth of the nation and recorded that epochal moment and its aftermath, another that examines the true spirit of Islam based on its original scripture, and a story about friendship and courage, human greed and hubris
Updated on Jun 09, 2023 07:15 PM IST
HT Team
Review: Manjhi’s Mayhem byTanuj Solanki
Goons fly out of glass windows, paunchy bankers are slapped around and mafiosi crumble to the floor in Tanuj Solanki’s fast-paced new novel
Updated on Jun 09, 2023 07:04 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Review: Hoofprints on the Land by Ilse Kohler-Rollefson
Ilse Kohler-Rollefson writes about the need to promote traditional forms of animal herding over industrial livestock farms and the benefits that will result for animals, humans and the planet
Updated on Jun 09, 2023 07:02 PM IST
Review: Stories Usual, Yet Unusual by Prerna Jain
A collection of 17 short stories that look at the lives of women as they negotiate a range of issues including unhappy marriages, sexual harassment, and family politics
Updated on Jun 08, 2023 10:32 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Essay: On the caustic humour of Succession
For its entire run, an abiding pleasure of tuning into the HBO show was to watch a superb ensemble mercilessly lob verbal grenades in their jockeying for power
Updated on Jun 08, 2023 08:58 PM IST
Interview: Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Mrinalini Harchandrai of Poetry at Sangam
On the closure of the Indian online literary platform that published work from around the world
Updated on Jun 07, 2023 07:23 PM IST
Suhit Bombaywala
Excerpt: Who Killed Moosewala by Jupinderjit Singh
This extract from a new book on the murder of Sidhu Moosewala looks at the Punjabi hip-hop superstar’s powerful lyrics
Updated on Jun 07, 2023 03:22 PM IST
