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]Abed Elrazeg Abu Jazer: “Literature an essential part of our freedom movement”
Updated on Feb 03, 2025 03:41 PM IST
The Chargé d’Affaires of the Palestine embassy spoke about reputed international cultural institutions being afraid of platforming Palestinian voices.
Book Box | A Sunday Book Swap
A diminished book club finds unexpected company in a book swap organised by a bookstore.
Updated on Feb 01, 2025 11:37 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book of iconic photographs of the Himalayas by Vittorio Sella, a volume of 16 true-life narratives of love and longing in Kashmir, and an engaging memoir on an eminent photographer
Updated on Jan 31, 2025 10:34 PM IST
HT Team
Amitav Ghosh: “Terraforming is happening now”
On his new book, ‘Wild Fictions’, environmental disasters, migration, and the truth within speculative fiction
Updated on Jan 31, 2025 10:32 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: In Pursuit of Freedom by Pradeep Damodaran
Travelling from Sabarmati to Champaran, Tentuligumma and beyond, Pradeep Damodaran combines history and on-ground reportage to present a picture of contemporary India
Published on Jan 31, 2025 10:27 PM IST
Shevlin Sebastian
Review: ‘A Maverick in Politics’ by Mani Shankar Aiyar
The last volume of Mani Shankar Aiyar’s autobiographical trilogy, that looks at the period from 1991 to 2024, presents a candid account of the various stages of his political life
Published on Jan 31, 2025 10:23 PM IST
Vinod C Khanna
New Delhi Book Fair: All you need to know about time, venue, theme & activities
Calling all bibliophiles to unite at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi! The New Delhi Book Fair is back and the theme of this year is about the Republic. Read more
Published on Jan 31, 2025 06:30 PM IST
Kriti Kambiri
The case for The Quillers’ Club
Ambreen Rasool’s publishing house aims to bring out books that connect Kashmiri children to their heritage
Published on Jan 31, 2025 01:49 PM IST
Majid Maqbool
Jasmine Shah – “AAP is the only party that has initiatives to tackle pollution”
At the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode earlier month, the Aam Aadmi Party leader and author of ‘The Delhi Model’ spoke about prioritizing human capital
Published on Jan 31, 2025 05:30 AM IST
Review: Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot
Wajsbrot demands the full attention of her reader as she plays with form, ideas and writing in this novel about an unnamed protagonist arriving in Dresden to translate Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’
Published on Jan 30, 2025 04:48 PM IST
Rahul Singh
Lucy Caldwell and the return of the short story
The author, a mistress of paradoxes who defies genre even as she creates mysteries, will be at the Jaipur Literature Festival this year
Published on Jan 29, 2025 07:29 PM IST
Vayu Naidu
‘Sunrise Over Valivade’: a historical record and an intimate family account
Susheel Gajwani’s memoir, the first record of a refugee camp near Kolhapur, captures the resilience, struggles, and identity of Sindhi Hindus displaced from their homeland
Published on Jan 29, 2025 05:58 AM IST
Saaz Aggarwal
Neil Gaiman’s US comic publisher drops author amid sexual assault allegations
Author Neil Gaiman has been dropped by his comic book publisher, Dark Horse Comics, following multiple sexual misconduct allegations; read
Published on Jan 28, 2025 06:56 PM IST
Aadrika Sominder
Report: Walking Bookfairs Travel Writing Festival
The second edition of the literary festival held in Puri had participants sharing stories and histories, looking at the city beyond the Jagannath temple.
Published on Jan 27, 2025 07:10 PM IST
Akankshya Abismruta
Book Box | An Evening with Amitav Ghosh
The landscapes of life and literature meet in Wild Fictions, the new book of essays by Amitav Ghosh
Published on Jan 26, 2025 09:31 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book of essays on climate change and the fictions we weave to absorb history, a tome that delves into Savarkar’s writing and speeches to arrive at a portrait of the man, and a story about three generations of gay men in India
Published on Jan 24, 2025 10:35 PM IST
HT Team
Charlotte Wood – “Art is a place to turn to in times of trouble”
On experimenting in Stone Yard Devotional with how far she could go in making a story that depends on stillness and silence and yet shimmers with energetic force
Updated on Jan 24, 2025 10:33 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: The Story of Eve by Zehra Nigah
This collection of Urdu poetry translated into English by Rakhshanda Jalil brings out the Pakistani poet’s sustained examination of the world around her
Published on Jan 24, 2025 10:31 PM IST
Review: ‘The Assamese’ by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
Encyclopaedic in scope and epic in range, The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community is full of details about Axom’s origins and the mind-boggling pluralities of its history, society, art, culture, music, theatre, textiles and craft
Published on Jan 24, 2025 10:27 PM IST
Whisky, haggis and the poetry of Robert Burns
On January 25, the birthday of its national poet, Scotland celebrates Burns Night with a traditional Scottish meal washed down with a warming dram of whisky
Published on Jan 24, 2025 02:28 PM IST
Teja Lele
Report: The Rainbow Literature Festival 2024
The event provided a safe and inclusive space for crucial conversations on queerness, identity, sexuality, gender, and rights
Updated on Jan 23, 2025 06:59 AM IST
Areeb Ahmad
Snap-happy: Thank goodness for my bad camera!
How using underperforming gear and having a relatively cheap camera on his midrange phone, set the writer free to play with creative photography
Updated on Jan 23, 2025 07:01 AM IST
Suhit Bombaywala
Review: Fangs of Death by Maanas Lal and Aloke Lal
A finely told page-turner featuring the true story of the sensational Kerala snake bite murder, the book also presents the technicalities of law and forensic science
Updated on Jan 22, 2025 08:30 AM IST
Percy Bharucha
Elli Miller Maboungou: “Sometimes, drums speak for themselves”
The percussionist and composer on his Congolese and Jewish American heritage, and navigating the financial instability of an artistic career
Published on Jan 21, 2025 03:22 PM IST
Kanupriya Dhingra: “Daryaganj’s magic lay in its unpredictability”
The author of ‘Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar’ on the Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar.
Updated on Jan 21, 2025 07:51 AM IST
Majid Maqbool
Book Box | Reading without rules
On why there are no rules when it comes to reading
Published on Jan 18, 2025 08:01 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that looks at how the cellphone has rewired childhood and what to do about it, another that presents easy, healthy, and innovative recipes for children battling cancer, and a volume on the economic and political forces that have shaped India’s public sector
Published on Jan 17, 2025 10:15 PM IST
HT Team
Thao Lam – “There is an audience for all kinds of stories”
The Vietnamese-Canadian illustrator and author of children’s books spoke about her family’s refugee past, assimilating into Canadian culture, ants, and why there’s nothing wrong with being angry
Updated on Jan 17, 2025 10:15 PM IST
Review: Glass Bottom by Sonali Prasad
Adeptly written and almost poetic, this climate fiction that features daughters and mothers brings the earth’s environmental crisis into sharp focus
Published on Jan 17, 2025 10:14 PM IST
Review: Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada by Shahu Patole
Apart from presenting unique recipes, this book also offers a critique of food and through it, an accurate analysis of Indian society
Updated on Jan 17, 2025 10:13 PM IST