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Book Box | A Turkish anthropologist and Pico Iyer teach me where Paradise is
Published on Jan 11, 2025 08:47 PM IST
Travelling from Mumbai to Goa with lessons from two books, and a walk by the Arabian Sea
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a coming-of-age story that’s also a tribute to the Indian rock scene, a new English translation of what is perhaps the first political novel of India, and a book that attempts to capture what is happening to the world around us
Published on Jan 10, 2025 09:21 PM IST
HT Team
Annie Gray: “Through food, you can go almost anywhere”
The author of ‘The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestickmaker’ and’ The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook’ on her dream project, and why food is the best way to explore history
Published on Jan 10, 2025 09:21 PM IST
Teja Lele
Review: Gardens of Delhi by Swapna Liddle and Madhulika Liddle
Written in a lucid style, this beautiful volume provides historical, architectural and horticultural details of 14 of the capital’s most popular parks
Published on Jan 10, 2025 09:18 PM IST
Review: The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature by MK Raghavendra
Thisdiscussion of the work of many eminent authors writing in Indian languages aims for a political interpretation of a few seminal texts
Published on Jan 10, 2025 09:14 PM IST
Financial wisdom is a life skill, say authors of ‘A Kid’s Guide to Money’
A new book combines wisdom from the ‘Arthashastra’ and modern insights to promote financial literacy and ideas of personal financial management.
Published on Jan 10, 2025 02:17 PM IST
Teja Lele
Report: Kingdom of Bhutan International Film Festival
A significant milestone in Bhutan’s cultural landscape, the inaugural edition of the KBIFF celebrated the power of cinema to inspire, educate and entertain
Updated on Jan 10, 2025 07:47 AM IST
K Vasudevan
Review: Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun
Featuring five stories within a frame story, ‘Marigold Mind Laundry’, written originally in Korean, allows readers to reflect on and perhaps even erase their own pain
Updated on Jan 10, 2025 09:12 AM IST
Rutvik Bhandari
Susegad and strawberry sunsets served with a side of books
A reading holiday in Goa allowed the writer to submerge herself in the works of authors who helped her regain a sense of peace and quietude
Updated on Jan 08, 2025 08:03 PM IST
Of Ravana in Reni Pani, Joker Face in Madhai, and other Satpura stories
Journeying into the lushly forested mountain range in Madhya Pradesh with Aly Rashid, author, ‘Tales from the Bush; A Peek Into The World of Satpura’, the writer discovers wild landscapes, great biodiversity and ancient forest wisdom
Updated on Jan 08, 2025 06:02 AM IST
Veidehi Gite
Report: Koshala Literature Festival
The fight for equality, the Mahabharata, the global financial meltdown and Habba Khatoon all featured in the third edition of Lucknow’s Koshala Literature Festival, which hosted more than 100 speakers and artists
Published on Jan 06, 2025 08:28 PM IST
Chittajit Mitra
From beach meetings to Uzbekistan: How this Mumbai book club survived 20 years
Moving from paper posters at Prithvi to reading under Bukhara's Booksellers' Dome, being part of a book club turned these strangers into friends
Updated on Jan 04, 2025 10:32 PM IST
Report: Madras Art Weekend
The event held in Chennai from 12 to 15 December signalled that the grand city has much to offer when it comes to contemporary art
Updated on Jan 03, 2025 07:49 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is an exemplary selection of Mirza Ghalib’s Urdu couplets, translated into English along with critical commentaries, a book featuring ornithologists, naturalists and birdwatchers combing the jungles and grasslands of India to track down the rarest birds of the subcontinent, and a volume that attempts to unpack the social and cultural histories of one of the country’s most diverse states
Published on Jan 03, 2025 05:49 PM IST
HT Team
Adam Gidwitz: “Most people just want a good protagonist”
At the Neev Literature Festival, 2024, the American author of children’s books spoke about his love for espionage novels, honouring his ancestors in his work, why he included an Indian character in his latest book, and holding the attention of young readers
Published on Jan 03, 2025 05:41 PM IST
Review: Island by Sujit Saraf
A novel that examines ideas of nationhood and citizenship, of modernity and development, the plight of those living on the margins, and how these minorities are manipulated and controlled by the developed world
Published on Jan 03, 2025 05:35 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Review: Friends; India’s Closest Strategic Partners by Sreeram Chaulia
On the intricacies of India’s vital bilateral partnerships with Japan, Australia, the USA, Russia, France, Israel and the UAE in the context of the nation’s ambition and ascent as a leading power
Published on Jan 03, 2025 05:34 PM IST
Review: Travellers in the Golden Realm by Lubaaba Al-Azami
During Mughal rule, that lasted 200 years, India became one of the largest and most prosperous centralised states in pre-modern history. Lubaaba Al-Azami’s book seeks to retrieve forgotten perspectives and to unveil the early picture of England vis-à-vis Mughal India
Published on Jan 03, 2025 12:24 PM IST
Sudhirendar Sharma
At the Louvre; Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets
Reimagining the Louvre and its treasures and celebrating the museum’s multiple identities through the eyes of selected poets
Published on Jan 02, 2025 03:18 PM IST
Yogesh Patel
Report: Dehradun Literature Festival (DDLF)
With ‘Sahitya, Cinema, Samaaj’ being the theme of the festival in its sixth edition, the event, which had sessions conducted in English, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi covered everything from travel writing, feminism and cultural heritage to love legends, wildlife conservation, and India’s place in a shifting world order
Published on Jan 01, 2025 01:59 PM IST
Review: Hug Yourself; Body Positivity and Empowerment Stories for Teenagers
Edited by Vinitha, this new book, that deals with body hair, colourism, size discrimination and more, helps teen girls tackle body image issues
Published on Dec 31, 2024 02:46 PM IST
Rush Mukherjee
Book Box | ChatGPT, Murder Mysteries, and Poems for a Snowy Birthday
AI rivalries, murder mysteries and poems celebrate community and keep the cold away on a snowy birthday
Published on Dec 28, 2024 11:32 PM IST
HT Editors pick their best reads of 2024
Dystopian novels, the autobiography of a theatre stalwart, a photographer’s turn to pastels, and books on AI, Dalit food, and India’s near east have all made it to this expansive collective reading list. Click on the link under each photograph to read that editor’s favourite book of the year
Published on Dec 27, 2024 04:45 PM IST
HT Team
Zara Murao picks her favourite reads of 2024
A novel set in the near future and a work of non fiction set in Palestine both read like they are straight out of a dystopian nightmare
Published on Dec 27, 2024 04:31 PM IST
Zara Murao
R Sukumar picks his favourite read of 2024
A busy professional adopts an orphaned leveret during the pandemic and in the process, learns more about the natural world, how humans interact with it, and what it does to us
Amrith Lal picks his favourite read of 2024
A theatre stalwart’s recounting of his journey in a near-dispassionate tone is contemporary history told in a very subjective manner but without losing sense of the many layers that shape people’s experiences
Published on Dec 27, 2024 03:47 PM IST
Rhythma Kaul picks her favourite read of 2024
21 reassuringly narrated stories that present all that’s known about the liver, diseases related to it, transplant surgery, and cancer
Published on Dec 27, 2024 03:46 PM IST
Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2024
From a biography of a pioneering anthropologist to a book on the wonderful old trees of India, another on the history of travel and a prize winning novel on a lynching, there was much to read this year
Published on Dec 27, 2024 03:45 PM IST
Zia Haq picks his favourite read of 2024
The inside stories of the ‘BK-16’, the 16 individuals arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case under a stringent law that allows indefinitely long periods of detention
Roshan Kishore picks his favourite read of 2024
A history-in-progress that shows how colonial authority and anticolonial resistance, warfare and nationalism, partitions, and postcolonial state-building shaped India’s near east
Published on Dec 27, 2024 03:41 PM IST