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Review: This Our Paradise by Karan Mujoo
A story of two Kashmiri families with alternating narratives, this is an exploration of how violence arrives in small towns and villages and uproots communities
Published on Nov 07, 2024 12:19 PM IST
Sharmistha Jha
72 personalities appeal to Kerala CM to enact law based on Hema Committee report
In a joint appeal, 72 prominent personalities have urged Kerala Chief Minister to enact a law addressing concerns raised by the Justice K Hema Committee report.
Published on Sep 05, 2024 06:52 PM IST
PTI | HT Entertainment Desk
Book covers are turning into works of art. See how it’s done
Embroidery, art, metaphors and new minimalist styles. Indian novels are playing it bold and creative with their covers. And picking up prizes too
Updated on Aug 31, 2024 09:21 AM IST
Christalle Fernandes
Arundhati Roy in India: An oxymoron of democracy
Roy has been a flag waver of dissent in the country. She has been an unrelenting critic of the Modi administration and its impact on India's democratic fabric
Published on Jun 28, 2024 07:30 AM IST
Reading continuity in a fractured verdict
In the third term, the NDA government will have to engage with multiple governance challenges and an energised Opposition
Published on Jun 27, 2024 08:48 PM IST
Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter Prize 2024: ‘Powerful voice’
Arundhati Roy will receive the award in a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on October 10. She will also deliver an address.
Updated on Jun 27, 2024 04:28 PM IST
Seditious hearts and mature democracies
Today, when we claim to be vishwaguru, leader of the Global South, deserving of a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council, does not this treatment of Arundhati Roy reveal a sad but inescapable truth about us?
Published on Jun 22, 2024 08:57 PM IST
The curious case of the sanction against Arundhati Roy
The criminal procedure should not be dependent on the vagaries of politics but premised on hard facts and evidence.
Published on Jun 19, 2024 07:00 PM IST
Nod to prosecute Arundhati Roy under UAPA 'misuse of power': Sharad Pawar
Nod to prosecute Arundhati Roy under UAPA 'misuse of power': Sharad Pawar
Published on Jun 15, 2024 08:19 PM IST
PTI |
Vivek Agnihotri reacts to action against Arundhati Roy, posts Kashmir Files clip
Delhi LG VK Saxena gave his nod to prosecute Arundhati Roy and Sheikh Showkat Hussain, under UAPA, for allegedly making provocative speeches.
Updated on Jun 15, 2024 07:39 PM IST
Afternoon brief: Oppn, BJP exchange words over action against Arundhati; more
A shortlist of the biggest headlines, recommended stories, and a special collection of news items you should check out.
Published on Jun 15, 2024 01:14 PM IST
War of words between Opposition, BJP over action against Arundhati Roy
The FIR against Arundhati Roy and Sheikh Showkat Hussain was registered following the orders of a Delhi court, Raj Niwas officials said.
Updated on Jun 15, 2024 12:14 PM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Delhi LG VK Saxena gives nod to prosecute Arundhati Roy, others in UAPA case
The LG also granted sanctions to prosecute under the same provisions Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a former professor at the Central University of Kashmir.
Updated on Jun 15, 2024 04:46 AM IST
Delhi LG approves prosecution of Arundhati Roy under UAPA
Delhi LG gives prosecution sanction against Arundhati Roy under UAPA for 'provocative' speech at an event in 2010
Updated on Jun 14, 2024 10:34 PM IST
BJP explains sanction for Arundhati Roy's prosecution to counter Chidambaram
Chidambaram was the home minister when author Arundhati Roy made the speech in 2010.
Updated on Oct 11, 2023 08:42 AM IST
Provocative speeches: Delhi LG approves prosecution of Arundhati Roy, Kashmir prof
The FIR against Roy and former professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain was registered following the orders of the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi
Published on Oct 10, 2023 05:59 PM IST
Did you know Shah Rukh Khan's 'debut' film role was of a gay college student
On Shah Rukh Khan’s birthday, we take a look back at his real film debut--the English telefilm called In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones--which had him play a gay college student.
Published on Nov 02, 2022 10:42 AM IST
Annu Kapoor on Arundhati Roy: ‘She has betrayed the country several times’
Annu Kapoor wanted to be a civil servant to serve his motherland, but won't enter politics to do the same. He said he is unfit for politics.
Updated on Aug 04, 2022 03:46 PM IST
Amanda
Twinkle Khanna re-reads Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things in new pics
Twinkle Khanna took to Instagram recently to share that she is currently re-reading Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things. She shared several pictures with her followers and wrote that she was hooked to the book.
Updated on Jun 03, 2021 11:06 AM IST
Krishna Priya Pallavi, Delhi
Amid tight security, Elgar Parishad 2nd edition held in Pune
Academic, activists and writers from Dalit, Left, Muslim and other social organisations addressed the event, held at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch in Pune.
Published on Jan 31, 2021 06:19 AM IST
Nadeem Inamdar, Pune
New laws will break the backbone of agri sector: Arundhati Roy
"The new agriculture laws will break the backbone of the farm sector and give the control to the corporates," she said, alleging that the Union government was trying to discredit the agitation.
Published on Jan 30, 2021 10:23 PM IST
PTI |
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s most personal book yet
The best-selling author is out with his new book, Loss, which is as much a memoir of grief as it is an ode to life.
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 10:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Kalyani Prasher
Tamil Nadu university withdraws Arundhati Roy’s book after ABVP complaint
Walking with the Comrades has been removed from the postgraduate English syllabus and replaced with essays from M Krishnan’s My Native Land
Updated on Nov 13, 2020 12:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chennai | Divya Chandrababu
Writing is the best medium to question authority, says Benyamin
The JCB Prize winning author takes on the powerful mafias that power religious dogmatism into people’s lives and holds up a mirror to its corruption and irrationality
Published on Jul 10, 2020 09:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Navneet Vyasan
Lok Sabha Elections 2019 | ‘Vote against hate politics’: Appeal by artistes including Girish Karnad, Arundhati Roy
In the appeal issued on Indian Cultural Forum, the 210 signatories said that the last few years saw “citizens being lynched or assaulted or discriminated against because of their community, caste, gender, or the region they come from”.
Published on Apr 02, 2019 11:18 AM IST
New Delhi | Indo Asian News Service
Language is my friend, fiction my first love: Arundhati Roy
The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a “disciplined writer” whose heart lies in fiction as it is a “connective tissue” between many things which are sometimes looked at or studied in isolation.
Updated on Jan 31, 2019 05:41 PM IST
Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India
Arundhati Roy, others seek action against ‘police attack’ on activists
The arrests of the five activists, in a nationwide crackdown on Tuesday, highlights the violation of all due procedures and is a mockery of the legal system, said a statement signed by author Arundhati Roy, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, as well as activists Aruna Roy and Jignesh Mevani, among others.
Updated on Aug 30, 2018 10:16 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Intellectuals condemn arrest of activists, call it ‘perilous, chilling, fascist’
Pune police on Tuesday carried out searches at residences of prominent lawyers and activists in five states across India in connection with their investigation into alleged Maoist links with the Elgar Parishad held in the city on December 31, 2017.
Updated on Aug 28, 2018 08:01 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Two new Indian literary prizes promise different agendas
The JCB Prize purse: ₹25 lakh. It will award the winner, those who make it to the shortlist and a fat shorRs 5 lakh should the winning entry be a translation
Updated on Apr 15, 2018 08:40 AM IST
Hindustan times | Dhrubo Jyoti
Gender Benders: A few of India’s first women achievers
They challenged male domination in the careers of their choice. Ahead of Women’s Day (March 8), HT looks back at pioneering Indian women who were the first to break the glass ceiling in their fields
Updated on Mar 07, 2018 08:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondents
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