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Review: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

Published on Sep 09, 2025 08:12 PM IST

A fishing town in the UK. (Shutterstock)

Report: The Sacred River Festival

A musical performance in progress at The Sacred River Festival (Courtesy The Sacred River Festival)

Updated on Sep 09, 2025 05:42 PM IST

Neel Soni: ‘Family does not always have to mean people’

A scene from Babli by Night (Courtesy Neel Soni)

Published on Sep 09, 2025 12:38 AM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes stories set among the Naga people, a biography of a towering geneticist and plant breeder, and a fresh translation of a classic by Tulsidas (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Sep 06, 2025 03:04 AM IST

Maria Reva: “I didn’t know I’d be writing about my grandfather”

Author Maria Reva (Courtesy The Booker Prizes)

Published on Sep 06, 2025 03:02 AM IST

Review: On the Banks of the Pampa by Volga

The river Pampa at Sabarimala (the hill of Sabari) in Kerala, one of the places connected with the story of Sabari in the Ramayana. (Shutterstock)

Published on Sep 06, 2025 03:00 AM IST

Review: The Ghadar Movement by Rana Preet Gill

A view of the Komagata Maru Memorial in Vancouver, Canada. The centenary celebration of the Ghadar movement in 2013 was commemorated not only in India but also by the Punjabi diaspora. In 2016, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologised on behalf of the government of Canada for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, which denied entry to a ship carrying Sikh immigrants into Vancouver. The ship was forced to return to Calcutta where a tragic confrontation with British authorities led to many casualties among the migrants. This infamous incident has become ingrained in public memory (Shutterstock)

Published on Sep 05, 2025 10:58 PM IST

Kolhapur: Where akharas and pehelwans wrestle with a promising future

Inside the Motibag Taleem in Kolhapur (Veidehi Gite)

Published on Sep 05, 2025 11:32 AM IST

Report: Enlightenment from an Unlikely Envelope

Deeptha Achar(L) and Chithra KS, co-curators of the show, Enlightenment from an Unlikely Envelope (Courtesy The Guild)

Updated on Sep 04, 2025 10:20 PM IST

Review: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Tony Tulathimutte’s subject is the chronically online, over-educated, and under-fulfilled children of the 21st century. (Shutterstock)

Published on Sep 04, 2025 02:12 PM IST

Sonal Mansingh's book: Courage, conviction and calm of a classical artiste

Former President Ram Nath Kovind during the discussion on guru Sonal Mansingh's book, A ZigZag Mind. (Photo: Raajessh Kashyap/HT)

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Sep 04, 2025 11:32 AM IST

Aatish Taseer: 'I had an unusual parenting. My father was someone I discovered'

Author Aatish Taseer (Courtesy the publisher)

Updated on Sep 03, 2025 07:57 PM IST

Rohit K Dasgupta: “This book needed to be written with feminist and queer care”

Rohit K Dasgupta, co-author, Desi Queers; LGBTQ+ South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain (Courtesy Westland)

Published on Sep 02, 2025 09:56 PM IST

Sleep among the Stacks: The literary lure of Gladstone’s Library

Gladstone’s Library (Courtesy Visit Wales)

Published on Sep 01, 2025 09:48 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

312pp, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>699; Context (Unsettling the notion that static national identities emerged unblemished by the migrant past in the aftermath of empires.)

Published on Aug 30, 2025 03:56 AM IST

Poetry Picks: Just In Case by Arundhathi Subramaniam

125pp, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>499; Penguin

Published on Aug 30, 2025 03:50 AM IST

Tash Aw: “Most of us are not comfortable with our bodies”

Author Tash Aw (Courtesy The Booker Prizes)

Published on Aug 30, 2025 03:46 AM IST

Review: The Bitter Fruit Tree and Other Stories by Prakash Parienkar

Golden sunrise in a Goa village (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 30, 2025 03:38 AM IST

Review: The Once and Future World Order by Amitav Acharya

The United Nations headquarters in New York (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 30, 2025 03:30 AM IST

Book to screen: The Thursday Murder Club

The cast of The Thursday Murder Club (Courtesy Netflix)

Published on Aug 29, 2025 12:33 PM IST

Mazi Nwonwu: “In Nigeria, storytelling is rich with the fantastical”

Mazi Nwonwu (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Aug 29, 2025 04:40 AM IST

Report: Kashish Pride Film Festival 2025

Actors Mir Tawséef and Akash Menon at the opening ceremony of the Kashish Film Festival where they were felicitated with the Rainbow voices Award for their performance in Onir’s latest film, We Are Faheem And Karun (Courtesy Onir on X)

Updated on Aug 27, 2025 03:07 PM IST

Gurnaik Johal: “The events of the past act as prophecy”

Author Gurnaik Johal (Courtesy Hachette)

Published on Aug 26, 2025 06:31 PM IST

Review: One Boat by Jonathan Buckley

The view from an island in Greece. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 02:22 PM IST

Ramya Sarma: “I admire Asha Bhosle’s resilience and chutzpah”

Author Ramya Sarma (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Aug 25, 2025 05:34 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of writing by Indian women on mental health, a novel about the search of closure from an International Booker winning translator, and an exploration of one of India’s most revered classical dance forms (HT Team)

Published on Aug 22, 2025 10:36 PM IST

Sophie Blackall: “We all need support and community”

Author Sophie Blackall at the Neev Literature Festival in Bengaluru (Neev Literature Festival)

Published on Aug 22, 2025 10:35 PM IST

Report: Bhutan Echoes 2025; Drukyul’s Literature and Arts Festival

Teacher and author Kalu Rinpoche (Courtesy Bhutan Echoes)

Published on Aug 22, 2025 10:34 PM IST

Review: The Hindi Heartland by Ghazala Wahab

In a town in north India (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 22, 2025 10:28 PM IST

Indian tribal literature: working against the oblivion of ruthless time

Tribal women of Birbhum preparing for a performance as part of the Hul Utsav to commemorate the Santhal battle against the British in 1885. While writers like Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, author, The Adivasi Will Not Dance among other works, are prominent in the Indian English sphere, in general, Indian language literature has not been very inclusive. (Subhendu Ghosh/Hindustan Times)

Published on Aug 22, 2025 04:54 PM IST

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