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Review: ‘Held’ by Anne Michaels
Published on Aug 20, 2024 02:25 PM IST
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, this novel about the burden of memory and love across generations is intense and unsettling
Rahul Singh
Roopa Pai – “Yoga looks at holistic well-being, not just fitness”
The author of Yoga Sutras for Children on how the yoga sutras came into her life, and why both children and adults can benefit from a knowledge of yoga that goes beyond breathing techniques and practising asanas as a form of physical exercise
Published on Aug 19, 2024 06:32 PM IST
Book Box | The Reading India Project
A book club sets aside bestseller lists, to discover India, one book at a time
Published on Aug 17, 2024 09:06 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a collection of essays that sheds light on the complex fabric of identity in Northeast India, a tribute to poet and author Keki N Daruwalla, and writings by Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl on how to find meaning and fulfilment
Updated on Aug 16, 2024 10:37 PM IST
HT Team
Viet Thanh Nguyen — “We choose to remember and forget things ”
The Pulitzer Prize-winner on his dual identity, on memory and forgetting, and his memoir, A Man of Two Faces
Published on Aug 16, 2024 10:36 PM IST
Review: Kamal Haasan – A Cinematic Journey by K Hariharan
An insightful look at the magnificent 63 year long career and pan-Indian success of superstar Kamal Haasan
Published on Aug 16, 2024 10:35 PM IST
Shevlin Sebastian
Review: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata
Edited by Shams Afif Siddiqi and Fuzail Asar Siddiqi and translated by the former, this collection gives English readers a hitherto unavailable glimpse into the city’s Urdu literature
Updated on Aug 16, 2024 10:34 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Review: Blackouts by Justin Torres
This genre-defying novel that includes photographs, forms of erasure literature and detailed endnotes, can be read as history masquerading as fiction
Published on Aug 16, 2024 09:30 PM IST
Amitav Ghosh - “We are living through an epochal geopolitical transition”
On how writing the Ibis Trilogy was a process of discovery, the coming multipolar world and the changes it will bring, and how literary fiction and non-fiction can help us understand the ecological crisis that we are facing
Published on Aug 15, 2024 09:09 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: A new translation of Portrait of Love by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Few writers dare to question, irritate and agitate the reader like Nirala did. Gautam Choubey’s translation successfully catches the spirit of the original
Updated on Aug 15, 2024 06:53 PM IST
Chittajit Mitra
A moment for f-Annes and misfits everywhere
Revisiting that classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables, in the 150th year of the birth of its author, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Updated on Aug 14, 2024 09:16 PM IST
Charumathi Supraja
Shubha Mudgal – “Kumar Gandharvji illustrates that tradition is open to change”
On the impact of the musical legend whose birth centenary it is this year, singing nirgun and sagun poetry, her relationship with the poetry of Meerabai and the role of music in healing divides
Published on Aug 13, 2024 09:23 PM IST
The essential Edinburgh reading list
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, one of the largest of its kind in the world, is on until 25 August. Here are five books you must read to know Scotland’s capital better
Updated on Aug 12, 2024 09:32 PM IST
Teja Lele
The high-octane power of mythmaking
Now that the drama has died down somewhat, a closer look at Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The film doesn’t exactly tear up the rulebook on origin stories, but George Miller does give the Fury Road prequel its own voice, its own tempo and its own musicality
Published on Aug 12, 2024 09:31 PM IST
Book Box | Eight life-changing books to read in your twenties and beyond
From inspiring stories of artists to tackling writer's block, these eight books make adulting easier.
Published on Aug 11, 2024 12:32 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a collection of unsettling stories that offer a searing critique of society, an extensive history of Pakistan, and a volume that covers the legal and economic history of India over 250 years
Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:12 PM IST
HT Team
Monika Halan “Don’t get taken in by get-rich-quick schemes”
On the importance of listing the particulars of your financial life from savings accounts to insurance, real estate assets to stocks, taxes and wills
Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:11 PM IST
Review: The Keeper of Desolation by Chandan Pandey
Touching on everyone from Malthus to Muktibodh, this is a collection of nine short stories by a prolific writer, who is an important voice in contemporary Hindi literature
Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:10 PM IST
Mayank Jain Parichha
Review: James by Percival Everett
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett’s James retells Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the runaway slave who is Huck’s companion in the original
Published on Aug 09, 2024 09:09 PM IST
This Book Lovers Day, explore 7 awesome libraries from around the world
On Book Lovers Day, we're taking you on a journey through 7 of the world's best libraries that every bibliophile should have on their bucket list
Published on Aug 09, 2024 04:07 PM IST
Aadrika Sominder
Seen and unseen: Disabled characters lost in cinema
Hindi films often suffer from a lack of authenticity in the depiction of disabled characters because of the narrative compulsion for a ‘hero’ or a ‘heroine’. A look at some films that steer clear of inspiration porn and present disabled characters as people who are more than just their disability
Published on Aug 08, 2024 06:41 PM IST
Abhishek Anicca
Essay: Love at first bite
On brown headed barbets double dating on electricity wires, exchanging gifts of love, and nesting in Delhi gardens
Published on Aug 08, 2024 06:37 PM IST
Review: Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
A tender exploration of grief, this is also a novel that explores the longlasting effects of growing up in a dysfunctional family that is collectively grappling with addiction and unhappiness
Published on Aug 08, 2024 03:56 PM IST
Sharmistha Jha
Review: This Land We Call Home by Nusrat F Jafri
A chronicle of four generations of a family that’s also a picture of the evolution of modern India as it moved from colonialism to independence and the contemporary era, this is an ode to the motherland
Published on Aug 07, 2024 08:05 PM IST
Areeb Ahmad
Book Fair and Stationery Fair return to Delhi: Namaskar, bibliophiles!
The 28th Delhi Book Fair and 24th Stationery Fair are all set to open in Delhi's Pragati Maidan. The focus this time is on books published in India.
Updated on Aug 05, 2024 10:03 PM IST
Nandini Sengupta: “In many ways, animals are more evolved than us”
The author of ‘The Blue Horse and Other Amazing Animals from Indian History’, who won the Sahitya Akademi Bal Puraskar 2024, on her relationship with animals and about retelling history through the their perspective
Published on Aug 05, 2024 06:16 PM IST
Book Box | A browsing list of eight new and notable books
Here's a round-up of recent reads, a mix of genres that includes the latest Amor Towles and the forthcoming Matt Haig.
Published on Aug 03, 2024 08:18 PM IST
Neha J Hiranandani – “Our children are born with phones in their hands”
The online lives of ‘digital natives’ are becoming increasingly unrecognisable to their ‘digital migrant’ parents. Here, the author of ‘iParent; Embracing Parenting in the Digital Age’ delves into the fruitful, safe, and healthy ways in which children can relish their online time
Updated on Aug 03, 2024 05:58 AM IST
Suhit Bombaywala
Review: What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
Presenting a record of the destruction caused by the state of Israel since its formation in 1948, and the violence and oppression that Palestinians have faced as a result
Updated on Aug 03, 2024 05:56 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book on how Sikh chiefs engaged with the British, the Marathas, the Jats and the Rohillas in the 18th century, an account of reporting violent political conflicts in South Asia, and a volume about 20 Indian architects and their iconic projects
Updated on Aug 03, 2024 05:52 AM IST
HT Team