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Review: Ghuroob-e Shehr Ka Waqt by Osama Siddique

A fierce love letter to a crumbling city, Pakistani author Osama Siddique’s first novel written in Urdu is both an ode to and a lament for Lahore

A street in Lahore, Pakistan. (Rebecca Conway/Getty Images)
Updated on Jul 13, 2024 09:59 AM IST
ByMahmood Farooqui

HT reviewers pick the best books they’ve read in 2019

The list includes short stories, novellas, science writing, memoirs, and fiction that examines feudalism, patriarchy, fanaticism, marriage, and identity

No one can resist a good read. At the Racecourse, Bombay, 1974.(Jagdish Agarwal/Getty Images)
Published on Dec 20, 2019 06:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Veteran author Kiran Nagarkar dies in Mumbai

In literary circles, Nagarkar was a powerhouse, known for his playful use of language, for cinematic storytelling, for his criticisms of the establishment and for bringing alive the chawls and everyday street life in Mumbai.

Nagarkar hoped he’d write a different ending to his 2017 book Jasodha.(Prodip Guha/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Sep 06, 2019 12:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | By

Excerpt: The Arsonist by Kiran Nagarkar

In this profound telling of the mystic saint-poet’s life, Kabir is a speaker of Truth in a world full of conflict that could be ancient, medieval, or contemporary. This excerpt includes the introduction and Chapter 2

Kabir (1440-1518) working as a weaver at his loom. From the Mughal School, 18th century.(Culture Club/Getty Images)
Updated on Aug 17, 2019 10:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByKiran Nagarkar

MJ Akbar is accused of rape. Can we stop talking about his ‘legacy’?

Rape is a criminal offence and one of which the State can take suo motu cognisance

MJ Akbar or Tarun Tejpal — and whoever comes next — cannot and must not be mythologised as brooding men of intensity with great achievements and a few minor chinks in their armour.(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Nov 02, 2018 06:48 PM IST

My Meerabai isn’t a cluster of cliches says Kiran Nagarkar of his Cuckold heroine on the book’s 21st anniversary

Author Kiran Nagarkar’s novel Cuckold missed the Booker but won the Sahitya Akademi award

Kiran Nagarkar’s novel Cuckold was published the same year as The God of Small Things in 1997.(Anushree Fadnavis / HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 15, 2018 08:40 AM IST
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