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Report: Hyderabad Literary Festival
Published on Apr 15, 2025 07:03 PM IST
The 15th edition of the event brought together personalities from the fields of cinema, literature and journalism.
Akankshya Abismruta
Kiran Bir Sethi: “Every child is born with extraordinary abilities”
The founder of Ahmedabad’s Riverside School spoke about her book, ‘Every Child Can’, at the Bhutan Innovation Forum
Published on Apr 14, 2025 05:12 PM IST
Book Review: Counterattacks at Thirty is unputdownable by way of relatability
After the crowd-favourite Almond, Won-pyung Sohn returns with Counterattacks at Thirty — a soothing read which will leave you with quite the occasional chuckle
Published on Apr 14, 2025 02:09 PM IST
Review: James Bond Will Return edited by Hines, McSweeney and Joy
This volume offers a comprehensive view of the series’ transformations against the backdrop of real-world geopolitical intrigue and social change
Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:29 PM IST
Sudhirendar Sharma
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is an autobiographical book that blends personal anecdote with social commentary, a novel about Parsis that presents the community’s rituals, piquant language, and eccentricities, and a manifesto that dares the reader to transform idealism into action and make the world a better place
Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:27 PM IST
HT Team
Irenosen Okojie: “I never think of genre when I’m writing”
The author of Curandera, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, on Nigerian folklore, writing about women of colour, being inspired by Margaret Atwood, and how writers with hyphenated identities are opening up the borders of the English language
Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:26 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: The Green Book; An Observer’s Notebook by Amitava Kumar
The third book in Amitava Kumar’s colours series invites readers to join the dots and make sense of the world
Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:24 PM IST
Priyanka Sarkar
Review: Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages edited by Prathama Banerjee
Touching on everything from anti-caste traditions to the Buddhist legend of Matanga and Persian and Arabic perspectives on caste, ‘Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages’ edited by Prathama Banerjee presents much fresh knowledge about Indian antiquity
Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:21 PM IST
Aspiring to greatness
On ‘The Brutalist’, personal vision and appropriation, and the American Dream as a bait and switch scheme
Published on Apr 10, 2025 03:05 PM IST
Review: When Love Is Lost by Kalyani Sardesai
Comprising 24 first person narratives, this book provides a picture of marriage in a changing India
Published on Apr 08, 2025 08:33 PM IST
Report: Jaipur BookMark 2025
A range of stakeholders from the book trade including publishers, editors, booksellers, rights managers participated in the twelfth edition of JBM
Published on Apr 08, 2025 08:26 PM IST
Manpreet Singh: “I wanted to talk of Sikhs in normal everyday urban contexts”
The author of ‘The Sikh Next Door’ on cutting through stereotypes and recognising the many social strands within the community.
Updated on Apr 07, 2025 06:07 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a well-researched account of Americans who made India their home, beginning in the 1700s, a book on artist Subodh Kerkar whose home state of Goa is his canvas, and a novel, translated from the Korean, about a group of young office workers who rebel against the status quo
Published on Apr 04, 2025 07:42 PM IST
HT Team
Review: Vaadivaasal by CS Chellappa, adapted by Appupen and Perumal Murugan
In adapting this work, Perumal Murugan and Appupen have drawn attention to a jewel of Tamil fiction and have also allowed readers to form an opinion on the ethics of jallikattu
Updated on Apr 04, 2025 07:40 PM IST
Akankshya Abismruta
Michael Hofmann: “Nothing is forever”
At the Kerala Literature Festival, the poet, critic and translator of the International Booker Prize winning novel, ‘Kairos’ by Jenny Erpenbeck, spoke about translating from German to English for the last four decades, his relationship with the authors he translates, and his views about the future
Updated on Apr 04, 2025 07:40 PM IST
Amol Palekar: “The middle ground is shrinking”
Actor, artist and director Amol Palekar on his memoir, Viewfinder, the need to normalise dissent, and how his daughter’s sexuality led him to shed biases and embrace a journey of self-discovery
Published on Apr 04, 2025 07:39 PM IST
Chittajit Mitra
Review: Dream Machine by Appupen and Laurent Daudet
From beginning as a general-purpose primer on AI, this book slowly advances towards “real-world issues” and serves both as a warning and a comforting force
Published on Apr 04, 2025 07:37 PM IST
Review: Tempest on River Silent is a coming-of-age tale in coming-of-age nation
The novel by Sandeep Khanna encapsulates India's journey from the tumultuous 1970s to the modern 2010s, blending traditional mindsets with contemporary outlooks
Published on Apr 04, 2025 04:56 PM IST
Kriti Kambiri
Jal Sanjhi: the holy art of painting on water
For half a millennium, the Vaishnav family of Udaipur has been practising this unusual form.
Published on Apr 03, 2025 06:55 PM IST
Veidehi Gite
Report: Arunachal Literature Festival
Well attended poetry sessions and talks on the changing dyamics of tribal people were memorable features of the three-day event
Published on Apr 03, 2025 05:36 AM IST
Chittajit Mitra
Review: Cher; The Memoir, Part One
Riveting, inspiring and insightful, the first volume of Cher’s memoirs offers the right amount of 1970s and ’80s nostalgia.
Updated on Apr 02, 2025 03:43 PM IST
Deepansh Duggal
On the possibilities offered by speculative fiction
RT Samuel, Rakesh K, and Rashmi RD, editors of ‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste Science Fiction’ talk about their independent press
Published on Apr 02, 2025 05:46 AM IST
Areeb Ahmad
John Vaillant: “Nature will burn the earth or flood it to make us stop”
The author of ‘Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast’ on living in the Petrocene era in which we are heavily dependent on fossil fuels.
Updated on Mar 31, 2025 07:03 PM IST
Book Review: Ram c/o Anandhi is about love, loss and life through a filmi lens
Author Akhil P Dharmajan aims to entertain all those who love romantic potboilers, in his latest literary offering. But, does he manage to succeed? Read to know
Published on Mar 29, 2025 12:00 PM IST
Yashika Mathur
Review: Mother India by Prayaag Akbar
A tale of redemption and reclamation, this novel portrays the ambitions and anxieties of ordinary young people in contemporary India
Updated on Mar 28, 2025 10:37 PM IST
Saudamini Jain
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a portrait of a foreign-born woman who left an imprint on India, a blend of nature writing and evolutionary theory that shows how mate choice has shaped the world, and a practising polyamorist’s book on what it takes to be in a happy relationship with more than one person, with the consent of all
Updated on Mar 28, 2025 10:26 PM IST
HT Team
Ginny Tapley Takemori: “Japanese lends itself to ambiguity”
At the Alliance Literature Festival in Bengaluru, the winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize (2020-2021) spoke about literary activism and the nuances of Japanese to English translation
Updated on Mar 28, 2025 10:23 PM IST
Review: The Indian Constitution; A Conversation with Power by Gautam Bhatia
Crisp, cogent and shorn of veneration, this book analyses the modern Indian nation’s foundational document through the lens of power
Published on Mar 28, 2025 10:20 PM IST
BIFFes 2025: On the Wim Wenders and Krzysztof Kieslowski retrospectives
Between Wenders and Kieślowski, the viewer is provided two revelatory lenses through which to view a changing world and the nature of humanity itself
Published on Mar 28, 2025 11:12 AM IST
Report: Jaigarh Heritage Festival
From musical performances to discussions between historians and authors, the festival held at the historic Jaigarh Fort had something for everyone
Published on Mar 27, 2025 02:53 PM IST