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India Art Fair 2025: Delhi, take a nose-y dive into a sea of artsy emotions
16th edition of India Art Fair opened in Delhi to a crowded VIP preview that was managed well, as compared to earlier. But today, you can't enter after 2pm!
Published on Feb 09, 2025 11:24 AM IST
Book Box: The Golden Road
At a Mumbai club, William Dalrymple highlights ancient India's global impact, blending history with storytelling, captivating an Indian audience.
Updated on Dec 18, 2024 12:44 PM IST
Review: The Golden Road by William Dalrymple
Written engagingly and often drawing from new finds in archaeology, this book is rich in historical detail
Updated on Dec 07, 2024 05:04 AM IST
The wonder that was India in ancient times
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is, therefore, not just about the wonder that was India but its influence on the rest of the world.
Updated on Nov 02, 2024 07:27 PM IST
Book Box: William Dalrymple: The man with a foot in both camps
The founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival on growing up in Scotland and why you should go to the JLF
Published on Jan 13, 2024 11:13 PM IST
Just Like That | Remembering the last Mughal Emperor's indelible cultural impact
Bahadur Shah Zafar left an indelible mark on Delhi's cultural landscape, from poetic soirees at the Red Fort to his patronage of the arts and love for gardens.
Published on Oct 15, 2023 09:11 AM IST
Book Box | 6 books, 3 podcasts to help you understand Israel-Palestine conflict
A list to help you wrap your head around the recent Hamas attack and the subsequent escalation of the long-simmering tension in West Asia
Published on Oct 15, 2023 09:02 AM IST
Delhi’s Begumpur Masjid roof collapse not recent: ASI counters William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple had on September 13 shared a photo of the Begumpur Masjid on microblogging platform Twitter and called it an instance of ASI’s neglect, triggering a conservation appeal by many people, including Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti
Updated on Sep 17, 2021 05:57 AM IST
Sadia Akhtar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Almost 90% of my reading is non-fiction: Amish Tripathi
The author talks about his favourite Indian authors and his experience in the Indian publishing industry.
Updated on Jul 30, 2020 09:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Navneet Vyasan
William Dalrymple’s next book being penned through lockdown
His magnum opus in 2019, ‘Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire’ has been his most successful and critically acclaimed work till date; but that has only encouraged historian William Dalrymple to scale even higher.
Updated on May 03, 2020 05:42 PM IST
New Delhi | Indo Asian News Service
Rare Indian art displayed in London exhibition
Titled ‘Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company’, the exhibition has opened at the Wallace Collection until April, showcasing artwork from various collections across the globe, curated by writer William Dalrymple.
Updated on Dec 05, 2019 06:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar
Dalrymple, Murugan, Tharoor in line-up for Kerala lit fest
Prominent authors William Dalrymple, Perumal Murugan, Benyamin and Shashi Tharoor, also the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, lead an impressive line-up for the fifth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival 2020.
Updated on Nov 30, 2019 02:28 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service, New Delhi
HT Picks: The most interesting books of the week
This week’s good reads include paintings by forgotten Indian masters, a book on a spymaster, and one on how to free your mind
Updated on Nov 29, 2019 06:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Team
‘The Cellular Jail should be a place of pilgrimage’
Says author Vikram Sampath, whose new book charts Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s journey from a small village in Maharashtra to the heart of the Indian independence movement
Updated on Oct 02, 2019 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Vyasan
Malavika’s Mumbaistan: The Cultural Provocateurs
This week saw the long-running literary extravaganza, founded by Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple and Sanjoy K Roy, set up its tent in New York.
Updated on Sep 20, 2019 12:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Malavika Sangghvi
William Dalrymple’s latest book charts the course of The East India Company
Author William Dalrymple’s new release is a result of six years of extensive research on East India Company and their ruthless pursuit of power.
Updated on Sep 11, 2019 05:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Vyasan
Brunch Book Challenge: Five books that writers are reading this month
From Toni Morrison’s compelling essays on race to rediscovering Thomas Harris’ book without Hannibal, authors share the one read they’ll devour this month
Published on Aug 31, 2019 11:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Samreen Tungekar
Book Review: William Dalrymple’s tome to perils of corporate power abuse
The towering 522-page tome, which was in the making for six painstaking years, thoroughly dissects the machinations of the East India Company (EIC).
Updated on Aug 25, 2019 02:25 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service | Indo Asian News Service, New Delhi
The Anarchy by William Dalrymple’s to release on Sept 10
William Dalrymple, the acclaimed historian and art historian, is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King.
Updated on Aug 15, 2019 02:51 PM IST
New Delhi | Indo Asian News Service
Malavika’s Mumbaistan: A Woman Thing?
Both women had distinguished themselves with their sterling commitment and loyalties to their respective parties.
Updated on Aug 08, 2019 09:19 AM IST
Malavika Sangghvi
Is the TV show Beecham House a case of Raj nostalgia? Two British historians weigh in
The series is critical of the East India Company, but has received negative reviews for it’s White saviour complex.
Updated on Aug 03, 2019 05:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manik Sharma
For the man who rebuilt Jamia, his knowledge was his strength
Indisposed for a long time, Hasan died Monday morning. He was nearing 71. He is survived by his wife, Zoya Hasan, an academic and political scientist who devotedly looked after him during his final years.
Updated on Dec 11, 2018 10:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Mayank Austen Soofi
Snapshots of life from over 200 yrs ago are on display at a city museum
Check out paintings and clay figures of everyday scenes at Indian Life and People in the 19th Century, on at CSMVS.
Published on Dec 07, 2018 04:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Aishwarya Iyer
Jaipur Lit Fest 2019 lineup announced, speakers to include Markus Zusak, Hari Kunzru
JLF co-director, William Dalrymple says the 2019 line up is the strongest Jaipur lineup ever. It’ll have an unrivalled literary ‘First Eleven’ of remarkable poets and acclaimed novelists, historians and biographers, travellers and critics, actors, screenwriters, and more
Updated on Oct 20, 2018 07:29 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service | Indo Asian News Service
William Dalrymple’s upcoming book of photographs captures historical places
As part of his research for The Historian’s Eye, Dalrymple travelled to various battlefields and ruins, mosques, Sufi shrines and temples.
Updated on May 17, 2018 02:57 PM IST
Press Trust of India, New Delhi | Press Trust of India
William Dalrymple’s visual tribute to a Mughal emperor who fought East India Co rule
The Historian’s Eye is an exhibition of photographs shot by author William Dalrymple as he researched Mughal emperor Shah Alam’s valiant battle against the East India Company for his new book, The Anarchy.
Author William Dalrymple: I would love to see regular mehfils in Zafar Mahal
Author of City of Djinns and The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple talks about the culture and history of Delhi and his own connect with it.
Updated on Mar 30, 2018 06:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prannay Pathak, New Delhi