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Excerpt: This Kind of Child by K Srilata
Updated on Dec 22, 2022 08:47 AM IST
In this extract, children with Specific Learning Disabilities like dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia talk about the abuse they faced from ignorant and insensitive teachers within the conventional school system
K Srilata
Review: Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
For close to three decades Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been prolifically churning out best sellers that examine the South Asian diaspora experience, immigration and cultural conflicts, reprise mythological and historical tales from a female perspective and experience, and interrogate patriarchy and celebrate feminism
Updated on Dec 19, 2022 07:35 PM IST
Sonali Mujumdar
Forging our own path to lasting happiness
Author Meera Gandhi in her latest book 3 Tips: The Essentials of Peace, Joy and Success gives readers tools to cultivate and live a joyful life.
Updated on Dec 18, 2022 11:04 AM IST
Naina Arora, New Delhi
Book Box: Racy Reads for the Holidays
Five fast-paced reads to round this year off with - a murder mystery, a thriller, an unusual epic, a romance and a snarky startup story
Published on Dec 17, 2022 08:11 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
The reading list this week includes a volume that presents 50 rare and exquisite antiques from the Amrapali Jewels Museum, a book that recognizes and stresses that there are many ways to live, and a mythological fantasy novel with a powerful twist in the ending
Published on Dec 16, 2022 10:19 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: P Sainath, author, The Last Heroes - ‘This is a more emotional book”
26 years after P Sainath wrote Everybody Loves a Good Drought, he’s back with The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom, one that Gopalkrishna Gandhi says “redefines biography writing”
Published on Dec 16, 2022 10:01 PM IST
Aparna Karthikeyan
Review: The War Diary of Asha-San by Lt Bharati ‘Asha’ Sahay Choudhry
The simple diary entries that comprise this book are rare accounts of the diaspora’s role and of women’s participation in India’s freedom movement
Published on Dec 16, 2022 08:46 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Review: Inked in India; Fountain Pens and A Story of Make and Unmake by Bibek Debroy and Sovan Roy
Inked in India documents the history of the fountain pen, nib and ink manufacturers in the country and looks at why the industry floundered after Independence
Published on Dec 16, 2022 08:28 PM IST
Suhit Bombaywala
Essay: The scene at home and abroad
What’s the winning formula for Indian authors chasing international recognition? It’s a question everyone – publishers, literary agents, authors and readers – are asking in the wake of the success of Deepti Kapoor’s The Age Of Vice
Updated on Dec 16, 2022 06:02 PM IST
Shireen Quadri
Excerpt: Queersapian by Sharif D Rangnekar
This extract from a book that’s part memoir and part social critique highlights the similarity between the nation’s freedom struggle and the queer community’s fight for acceptance and dignity
Updated on Dec 15, 2022 08:04 PM IST
Sharif D Rangnekar
Review: Curry: How Indian Food Conquered Britain by Shrabani Basu
A look at a nation’s culinary heritage and how it was shaped by colonialism and the resulting cultural exchange
Updated on Dec 14, 2022 09:33 PM IST
Swati Rai
Review: Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
A critique of heteronormative society and the gendered world that we live in, Diary of a Void is also an acute portrait of loneliness
Published on Dec 14, 2022 04:53 PM IST
Hritik Verma
Review: Indian Christmas edited by Jerry Pinto and Madhulika Liddle
An anthology of memories, essays, pictures, poems and hymns on Christmas celebrations in the country
Updated on Dec 13, 2022 08:19 PM IST
Neha Kirpal
Report: The Mahindra Kabira Festival 2022
The sixth edition of the festival celebrated the 15th-century weaver-poet Kabir’s words and wisdom through music, puppetry, storytelling, and scholarly talks
Updated on Dec 13, 2022 12:35 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Book Box: Best Book Club Reads of 2022
Seven Book Club reads to spark conversations and give you new ways of looking at the world
Published on Dec 10, 2022 06:50 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week, a first-hand account of the end of America’s mission in Afghanistan, the story of cricket told through those who have shaped the game, and a Kannadiga public intellectual’s examination of the nature of the RSS
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:10 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Orijit Sen, author, River of Stories - ‘I realise the book was ahead of its time’
The graphic novelist and designer talks about the 25th anniversary edition of his lightly fictionalised account of the Narmada Bachao Andolan of the 1990s
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:09 PM IST
Majid Maqbool
Review: My Life in Indian Politics by Mohsina Kidwai
The voice of Muslim women’s intervention in politics in the post-Independence period presents her view of the complex personalities who dominated the nation over six decades
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:09 PM IST
Shafey Kidwai
Review: The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature and History After Empire by Sam Goodman
On the use of medicine as a defining trope by novelists like JG Farrell, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Salman Rushdie to explore the complex relationship between Britain, India and Empire
Published on Dec 09, 2022 06:07 PM IST
Excerpt: I Know the Psychology of Rats by Saeed Mirza
I Know the Psychology of Rats, which is being launched in New Delhi on December 10, is filmmaker Saeed Mirza’s tribute to his friend and collaborator Kundan Shah who died in 2017. This extract talks about the making of the cult film, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Updated on Dec 12, 2022 10:48 AM IST
Saeed Mirza
Review: Citizen Gallery by Jerry Pinto
This book about Gallery Chemould and the extraordinary Gandhy family traces the history of modern art in India and includes a number of interesting stories about Bombay
Updated on Dec 08, 2022 05:17 PM IST
Neha Kirpal
Essay: Dominique Lapierre and the writer as saint
While City of Joy had a lurid focus on slums, lepers, prostitution, and child exploitation, eventually the author’s humanism overrode the writer in him
Updated on Dec 07, 2022 08:38 PM IST
Farzana Versey
Interview: An Yu, Author, Ghost Music - “I am drawn to the secrecy of mushrooms”
Chinese author An Yu’s latest novel, Ghost Music, uses the metaphor of mushrooms to reveal buried family secrets
Published on Dec 07, 2022 03:52 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
Excerpt: August in Kabul by Andrew Quilty
This extract from a new book on America’s last days in Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban follows 19-year-old Nadia, whose family wants to give her up to the Taliban in exchange for security
Updated on Dec 06, 2022 07:27 PM IST
Andrew Quilty
A Kanisetti, Lords of the Deccan author: I feel gleeful when I demolish binaries
On winning the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction this year
Updated on Dec 05, 2022 08:01 PM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Book Box: Why We Need Memoirs — 2
You don't have to be famous to write your memoirs. Here's why. Plus a chat with Dr Leena Chatterjee on why she gets management students to write their life stories.
Updated on Dec 04, 2022 06:55 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is an edition of companion volumes that showcases 25 nazmseach from two of India’s most iconic Urdu poets, Jan Nisar Akhtar and Kaifi Azmi, another two-volume set on the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family, and an illustrated edition of 100 great mythological tales from the Puranas
Published on Dec 02, 2022 04:31 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Ramu Katakam, author, Spaces in Time – A Life in Architecture - “I yearn for a return to basics”
The veteran architect and design thinker reflects on his recent memoir and about a life spent among buildings
Published on Dec 02, 2022 04:28 PM IST
Kunal Ray
Review: Zikr by Muzaffar Ali
Filmmaker and designer Muzaffar Ali’s autobiography reminisces about his childhood and the journey of his films, and reveals his enduring love for poetry and devotion to Sufism
Published on Dec 02, 2022 04:27 PM IST
Arun AK
Interview: George Saunders, author, Liberation Day
George Saunders, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo, talks about Liberation Day, his new collection of short stories
Updated on Dec 02, 2022 04:25 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
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