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Sourav Roy: “There are deep problems despite the ‘Gitanjali Shree Effect’”
Published on Jun 11, 2024 09:09 PM IST
On translating Hoshang Merchant’s The Man Who Would Be Queen into Bangla, grappling with finding precise sexual terms, the need for more queer writing in Indian languages, and the impossibility of making a living from translation #PrideMonthSpecial
Chittajit Mitra
Appupen - “I’m scared of AI just like everybody else”
On his new graphic novel Dream Machine on Artificial Intelligence and on teaming up with Perumal Murugan to recreate CS Chellappa’s classic jallikattu novella, Vaadivaasal
Published on Jun 10, 2024 09:21 PM IST
Book Box | The difficulty of raising children in virtual and real worlds
The Anxious Generation by Jonathon Haidt raises questions about the best ways to raise healthy and happy children in both the virtual and the real worlds.
Published on Jun 09, 2024 01:23 AM IST
Amor Towles – “Aspiration is a very strong aspect of American culture”
On avoiding drawing from his personal life while writing fiction, including the late novelist Paul Auster as a character in one of his short stories, and working with translators
Updated on Jun 08, 2024 02:46 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a memoir of a fifty-year engagement with public action, a volume on the south Asian explorers who documented over one million square miles in central Asia and Tibet, and an account of VS Naipaul’s family and of cultural change in Trinidad by his sister
Published on Jun 07, 2024 09:50 PM IST
HT Team
Review: Fraternity; Constitutional Norm and Human Need by Rajmohan Gandhi
In a lucid volume on the rarely emphasised virtue of fraternity enshrined by the preamble of our constitution, Rajmohan Gandhi seems to suggest that, despite its recent exclusions, there is hope yet for our society to be more inclusive
Published on Jun 07, 2024 09:49 PM IST
Maaz Bin Bilal
Review: Before I Forget by MK Raina
An unvarnished social document that reveals the restorative power of art to rebuild connections and communities, the theatre director’s memoir presents his deep engagement with and commitment towards grassroots cultural movements
Updated on Jun 07, 2024 09:49 PM IST
Kartik Chauhan
Watching The Mousetrap in the West End
Catching a show of Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit definitely tops the list of great things to do in London
Published on Jun 07, 2024 08:49 PM IST
Mihir Chitre
The Discarnates, All of Us Strangers and the pain of homecoming
Two ghost stories, two worlds and two temporalities inhabit the same representational space in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s The Discarnates and Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, both of which take off on Taichi Yamada’s novel, Stranger
Published on Jun 06, 2024 08:21 PM IST
On the road with Manou
For about a decade, the photographer has no fixed address. Here, he writes about travelling across the Northeast, documenting aspects of their cultural heritage
Published on Jun 05, 2024 09:26 PM IST
Manou
Review: Indian Literature’s issue on Trans Writing
The Sahitya Akademi’s journal’s issue devoted to trans writing includes excerpts from longer works, poetry, short fiction, essays and book reviews written in English and in major regional languages including Manipuri, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Malyalam and Marathi
Updated on Jun 05, 2024 05:46 AM IST
Mohammad Farhan
Review: The Book of Chai by Mira Manek
Including a range of fragrant recipes from the familiar Ukaro and Kadha to the outre Saffron Chai Muesli and Pumpkin Chai Latte, this is a celebration of the milky brew that’s an intrinsic part of the life of Indian communities worldwide
Updated on Jun 04, 2024 05:40 PM IST
Sudhirendar Sharma
Akshaya Bahibala, author, Bhang Journeys – “I believe in the power of stories”
Bookseller and co-founder of Bhubaneshwar’s The Walking BookFairs bookstore, Akshaya Bahibala’s debut book is a recounting of the years he spent intoxicated along with an assessment of the production and abuse of drugs in Orissa
Published on Jun 03, 2024 08:36 PM IST
Book Box | Meet the history buff turned spy writer Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre on the psychology of spies and how to turn historical facts into riveting spy novels
Published on Jun 02, 2024 01:39 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a food chronicle that entices readers to make everything from Gujarati kadhi to gulab ki kheer, a book about the first men and women who represented India on the world stage, and an exploration of how BR Ambedkar’s London years formed his thoughts on labour, women’s rights and political representation
Published on May 31, 2024 10:47 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Joshy Benedict, author, The Pig Flip
On creating his graphic novel about a gambling addict trying to change his behaviour, initially self publishing it in Malayalam, its subsequent journey, his visual influences and his spectacular depiction of landscapes
Published on May 31, 2024 10:47 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Review: Bullets and Bylines by Shyam Bhatia
This extraordinary account of an extraordinary life is a must-read for those who want to know what it looks like to be deeply passionate about journalism
Published on May 31, 2024 10:45 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Nathan Thrall – “Stories have the power to move even the most closed minds”
The winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for general non fiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, his book on the West Bank under Israeli occupation, talks about exclusion and death in Palestine
Published on May 31, 2024 10:09 PM IST
Majid Maqbool
Review: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
A novel that chalks out the protagonist’s identity crisis to minutely observe Iranian-American angst and dissonance in ideas of nationhood
Updated on May 31, 2024 07:17 PM IST
Rahul Singh
Essay: Respect my boundaries, dear peepal
The peepal provides refuge for humans and animals in the scorching summer and is considered a sacred tree in India. A meditation on this magnificent shade tree that can be both useful and destructive
Published on May 31, 2024 05:33 PM IST
Review: What is Saved by Aamer Hussein
Fiction, memoir and biography sit side-by-side in this book that includes autofiction and pieces born of esoteric inspirations and historical sources that reveal the breadth of the author’s reading
Updated on May 30, 2024 06:37 PM IST
Areeb Ahmad
Kailash Satyarthi - “We need to globalise compassion”
On the prevalence of slavery, how domestic child labour continues to flourish in India, what rescued children have taught him, and the steps the country needs to take regarding child rights
Published on May 29, 2024 09:04 PM IST
Chittajit Mitra
A day of readings at the Kashmir Fiction Writers Guild
The association, that holds weekly sessions where writers present short stories and excerpts from novels and plays, will soon celebrate its 10th anniversary
Published on May 28, 2024 06:08 PM IST
Hilal Mir
Vanessa R Sasson - Each time we learn, our world becomes bigger
The professor of religious studies at Marianopolis College in Quebec, who was in India earlier this year for the Jaipur Literature Festival, talks about her novels Yasodhara and The Gathering that she places in the tradition of Buddhist hagiographic fiction
Published on May 28, 2024 05:07 PM IST
Book Box | Why we need spy stories
From spotting the liar, to sharpening our intuition, reading spy stories is a fun way to pick up smart skills
Published on May 25, 2024 06:42 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s list of interesting reads includes a critical assessment of India-Japan relations, an alternative reading of the Manusmriti, and a book by a mixed race author that’s a cry for an inclusive future
Published on May 24, 2024 10:54 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Swati Narayan, author, Unequal; Why India Lags behind its Neighbours
Swati Narayan talks about why the nation has fallen behind neighbours such as Bangladesh on human development indices and how a lack of coordination between government bodies, who throw money at problems without actually solving them with a coordinated grassroots approach, is at the crux of the issue
Updated on May 25, 2024 06:24 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Review: The Collected Stories of Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
Human beings, animals, birds, fish, insects and super-natural beings mix as equals, talking to each other and being mutually understood in The Collected Stories of Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
Updated on May 24, 2024 10:51 PM IST
Review: Intertidal; A Coast and Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves
A compilation of field notes made around Chennai’s wetlands, Intertidal by Yuvan Aves is also a deeply insightful lesson in how nature mirrors the human consciousness
Published on May 24, 2024 10:49 PM IST
Yashodhara Sirur
Essay: On provincial time
A meditation on quieter ways of living in places away from the frenetic metropolis and on what could happen when the need for speed touches even these lives
Updated on May 24, 2024 08:22 PM IST
Sumana Roy
