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Excerpt: What Privacy Means by Siddharth Sonkar
Updated on Apr 12, 2022 04:00 PM IST
With inadequate laws for privacy, apprehensions about data and its use have hit a peak. Here, the author looks at the absence of interoperablility keeping people locked into WhatsApp, at how Network Effects give big tech the ability to dominate the market, and the privacy implications of deals like the one between Facebook and Reliance
Siddharth Sonkar
Saurabh Shukla on screenwriting - “I don’t think that words alone carry meaning”
The celebrated actor, film and theatre director, and screenwriter talks to Mihir Chitre about writing for Hindi films like Satya, Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar, Calcutta Mail, and Raat Gayi Baat Gayi, among others, over the last 25 years
Updated on Apr 11, 2022 04:12 PM IST
Mihir Chitre
Review: To Kill a Democracy by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane
Confronting India’s broken health care system, extreme poverty, and the criminalization of politics, among other horrors
Updated on Apr 08, 2022 08:48 PM IST
Samrat Choudhury
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that reveals many unknown stories about Subhas Chandra Bose, another that establishes why objecting to interference with privacy is so important in India today, and a volume that addresses the entire sweep of Indian art from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present
Published on Apr 08, 2022 04:41 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Lilly Singh, author, Be a Triangle
The Canadian of Indian orgin talks about mental health and about being a person of colour in the entertainment industry in the West
Updated on Apr 08, 2022 04:40 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Report: The Kolkata Literary Meet 2022
With interesting sessions featuring a range of authors including Ghazala Wahab, Cyrus Broacha, Sandip Roy, Amish Tripathi and Javed Akhtar, and personalities like Simi Garewal, Jim Sarbh and Mallika Sarabhai, the Kolkata Literary Meet 2022 stood out especially for the rare intimacy it engendered between writers and readers
Updated on Apr 08, 2022 04:34 PM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Review: Hope Behind Bars edited by Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka
Pieces about working in prisons, on Rohingya refugees in detention, and a statistical study on the fate of children with parents in Tamil Nadu’s jails, among others, feature in this collection of essays
Published on Apr 08, 2022 04:31 PM IST
Mahmood Farooqui
Excerpt: Onam in a Nightie by Anjana Menon
A collection of true stories from a town in Kerala during the pandemic that is both heartwarming and hilarious. This chapter titled Rosia and Shivankutty features a dog and her eccentric human friend
Updated on Apr 08, 2022 09:14 AM IST
Anjana Menon
Review: India-Africa Relations: Changing Horizons by Rajiv Bhatia
A meticulously detailed book that tells us why Africa matters so much to India and presents good suggestions on how the India-Africa relationship should be enhanced and pushed ahead
Updated on Apr 07, 2022 04:10 PM IST
Shrabana Barua
Revisiting the Shakespearean Kashmir Files
‘The Kashmir Files’ claims to correct misconceptions propagated by “the Left Bollywood ecosystem”, which made films like ‘Haider’ to portray the victimisation of Kashmiri Muslims. Farzana Versey looks afresh at the 2014 film in light of the huge success of TKF
Updated on Apr 06, 2022 09:52 PM IST
Farzana Versey
Obituary: Syamal Gupta (1934-2022), the man who took the Tatas across the world
The management impresario, who opened markets for Tata products in numerous African, European and South-East Asian markets, died on April 1
Updated on Apr 05, 2022 09:02 PM IST
Sujoy Gupta
Review: A Taste of My Life by Chitrita Banerji
This deeply introspective compilation of essays, that recounts experiences with food and drink from different points in the author’s life, goes beyond the individual and into the collective memory of most Bengalis
Updated on Apr 05, 2022 12:25 PM IST
Indranee Ghosh
HT Picks; New Reads
On the list of interesting reads this week is a practical treatise on stage design in Indian theatre, an insider’s account of JNU’s issues, and a celebration of the 50th year of UAE’s formation
Published on Apr 02, 2022 06:44 AM IST
HT Team
Interview: Nicolas Wild, author, Kabul Disco - ‘Being French and White gave me many privileges in Afghanistan’
A graphic novelist from France, best known for Kabul Disco Vols 1 and 2, was at the recent Kolkata Literary Meet. Here, he talks about his books, Afghanistan, and about representation
Published on Apr 02, 2022 06:43 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Review: The Garden of Heaven by Madhulika Liddle
Starting with the fall of Prithviraj Chauhan, Madhulika Liddle’s book spans 200 years of Delhi as it chronicles the lives of two families of stone carvers who carry on their trade and attempt to please their changing masters
Published on Apr 02, 2022 06:42 AM IST
Percy Bharucha
Review: Gandhi’s Assassin by Dhirendra K Jha
Deeply researched and lucidly written, Gandhi’s Assassin does a good job in its portraiture of Nathuram Godse and in reporting details of the plot to kill MK Gandhi
Published on Apr 02, 2022 06:40 AM IST
Samrat Choudhury
Excerpt: Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life by Gita Piramal
The first authorized biography of billionaire businessman, member of Parliament, and Padma Bhushan awardee Rahul Bajaj, who died on 12 February 2022, is not just the story of an individual but of India itself.
Updated on Apr 01, 2022 05:35 PM IST
Gita Piramal
Review: Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
A study in counterfactual scholarship, this “reconstructed memoir” draws heavily upon Dostoevsky’s letters, notebooks, journalism and fiction to recreate an unreal life
Updated on Mar 31, 2022 03:09 PM IST
Prasenjit Chowdhury
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s reading list includes a book on the fraud, racism, misogyny and environmental destruction at the core of the influencer model, one that shows how post Independence India married liberal democracy to a socialist economy through its Five-Year Plans, and another that tells stories of hope and resilience from a midway Kerala town
Published on Mar 25, 2022 06:47 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Agnès Martin-Lugand, author, Happy People Read and Drink Coffee - ‘I never deliver a preachy message to my readers’
The clinical psychologist and best-selling author talks about the origin of her ideas and about self publishing her first novel on Kindle in 2012. The book as now been translated into 34 languages including English, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Turkish and Chinese
Updated on Apr 12, 2022 01:39 PM IST
Arunima Mazumdar
JLF 2022: Like walking through a food court for the mind
At this year’s edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, our intrepid correspondent often found entertainment when he was least expecting it
Updated on Mar 25, 2022 06:17 PM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Review: The Blue Book - A Writer’s Journal by Amitava Kumar
Several of the images used in Amitava Kumar’s book were created during a writing residency in Texas to which he was invited. The others record his observations while taking a walk, travels, objects around the house, contemporary occurrences in India, amongst others. A visual expedition into the writer’s mind, Kumar’s paintings in his journal exude a remarkable spontaneity.
Published on Mar 25, 2022 05:29 PM IST
Kunal Ray
Review: You People by Nikita Lalwani
Told through the perspective of Shan, a young Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, You People is set around the nightmares of asylum seekers in UK in the early aughts
Updated on Mar 24, 2022 03:33 PM IST
Saudamini Jain
HT Picks; New Reads
The reading list this week includes a new novel from the author of Brick Lane, a collection of Telugu stories appearing in English for the first time, and a travelogue that chronicles the author’s adventures around the world with her husband, children, and dog
Published on Mar 12, 2022 02:03 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Rashmi Dhanwani, coauthor, The India Literature and Publishing Sector Study commissioned by British Council – ‘Resources for translators are scant.’
On the challenges of making literature written in Indian languages more widely available to international English-speaking readership
Published on Mar 12, 2022 01:03 AM IST
Chintan Girish Modi
Review: Akbar; A Novel of History by Shazi Zaman
An ambitious portrait of Akbar that plays with historical facts to reimagine, retell, and reveal the human side of the emperor
Published on Mar 12, 2022 01:03 AM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Review: The Kashmir Conundrum by General NC Vij
While several books have been written on the Kashmir imbroglio, this work by a former army chief stands out for dealing with it comprehensively and making assessments that are perceptive and based on impeccable logic
Published on Mar 12, 2022 01:00 AM IST
Satish Chandra
Painting a portrait of pandemic’s people through words
Author Chetna Keer talks about her new book Giddha On My Gulmohar that delves into how Covid-19 impacted our lives and livelihoods.
Published on Mar 11, 2022 10:37 PM IST
Siddhi Jain, New Delhi
Delhi’s book fairies are back on track!
Set to rekindle the joy of reading in the lives of Dilliwallahs in transit, volunteers at Books on Delhi Metro (BODM) are back on track after a pandemic-induced hiatus of two years
Published on Mar 11, 2022 08:06 PM IST
Etti Bali, New Delhi
Essay: The enduring popularity of second hand books
From cultivating eco-friendly reading habits to feeling like they are part of a community of readers across time, buyers cite different reasons for their interest in pre-owned books
Updated on Mar 09, 2022 05:33 PM IST
Pooja Bhula
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