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]Chocolate; a taste of paradise
Published on Jul 08, 2024 09:24 PM IST
While World Chocolate Day was celebrated on July 7, for enthusiasts, every day is chocolate day. A look at how one craft chocolate company is celebrating India’s rich cacao heritage, elevating chocolate making to an art form, and redefining indulgence with its bean-to-bar approach
Shireen Quadri
The leadership lessons from these 10 inspiring memoirs
A search through a universe of memoirs throws up real-life stories with leadership lessons for students of management
Published on Jul 07, 2024 01:30 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a volume of fresh translations of classical Indian texts, reportage about a murder that shocked the country, and a book on an icon of Indian cinema
Published on Jul 05, 2024 07:41 PM IST
HT Team
K Vaishali – “Many literature festivals ignored me”
The author of Homeless; Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India on winning the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2024 for her memoir
Updated on Jul 06, 2024 05:00 AM IST
Review: The Scam That Shook a Nation by Prakash Patra and Rasheed Kidwai
An exploration of the Nagarwala scandal of the 1970s when a Delhi branch of the State Bank of India was defrauded of ₹60 lakh
Published on Jul 05, 2024 07:39 PM IST
Shevlin Sebastian
Review: Imperial Games in Tibet by Dilip Sinha
Scholarly, accessible and timely, Imperial Games in Tibet focuses on the history of the nation in the high Himalayas since the seventeenth century
Published on Jul 05, 2024 07:36 PM IST
Tsering Namgyal Khortsa
Report: The 9th International Convention of SPIC MACAY
This year’s annual convention comprising programmes of Indian classical music and dance, folk arts and crafts, meditation, yoga, cinema screenings, talks and workshops was truly stimulating
Published on Jul 05, 2024 05:17 PM IST
Manjari Sinha
The Legend of Goddess is my most devotional, sincere work so far: Om Swami
Spiritual leader Om Swami, the award-winning author of 15 books has come up with his latest title, The Legend of Goddess.
Updated on Jul 05, 2024 06:10 PM IST
Maestro: The dualities of Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein composed Broadway musicals, ballets and symphonies. He conducted Beethoven, Mahler and Stravinsky. A look at why a recent celebrated biopic couldn’t do him justice
Published on Jul 04, 2024 08:44 PM IST
Rescuing animal doctors
Veterinarians across the world experience excessive stress and levels of compassion fatigue leading to depression and other mental health issues. A look at the scenario in India and at a recent book that explains why this happens
Published on Jul 03, 2024 08:53 PM IST
Lamat R Hasan
Soraya Chemaly - “Equality in the law does not translate into daily life”
Doing it all is what is infuriating women around the world. The author of Rage Becomes Her reveals why women must harness the power of female anger
Updated on Jul 03, 2024 06:55 PM IST
Teja Lele
Review: Unashamed; Notes From The Diary Of A Sex Therapist by Neha Bhat
This practical and philosophical road map to overcoming shame offers a variety of strategies to help readers reclaim their true selves and live more joyous lives
Published on Jul 03, 2024 02:37 PM IST
Takshi Mehta
Sumana Roy – “My idea of research is a bit like eavesdropping on oneself”
From Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare to Lillebonne’s Annie Ernaux, some of the world’s greatest writers grew up away from the bustle of city life. Here, the author, most recently, of Provincials, talks about memories of a childhood spent in Siliguri with notes on the lives and work of other authors who walked peripheral lanes before her
Published on Jul 01, 2024 08:31 PM IST
Huzan Tata
Book Box | The book club that cracked the personality code
A summer reading group discovers archetypes and the power of reading for relationships
Published on Jun 29, 2024 11:33 PM IST
How to protect an endangered language
A new book looks at the threats facing six small languages and the efforts to save them
Published on Jun 29, 2024 08:00 AM IST
The Economist
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that combines Eastern systems of medicine with modern medical treatments for whole body wellness, a volume that brings Sikh women out of the shadows of contemporary Indian history, and another on Indian-Chinese relationships
Published on Jun 28, 2024 09:53 PM IST
HT Team
Review: The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
A fresh and bold perspective on democracy that spans the ancient popular assemblies of the Indian subcontinent and Syria-Mesopotamia and contemporary nations with their specific challenges
Updated on Jun 28, 2024 09:53 PM IST
Saleem Rashid Shah
André Aciman – “Time is not always our friend”
On his new book, The Gentleman From Peru, the concept of rebirth, intergenerational relationships in his fiction, the irrealis mood, and reading the classics correctly
Published on Jun 28, 2024 09:51 PM IST
Review: Trees of South India by Paul Blanchflower and Marie Demont
An identification guide that lists many trees that flourish across the Indian subcontinent, Trees of South India highlights the country’s awe-inspiring and fast depleting biodiversity
Published on Jun 28, 2024 09:50 PM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Review: Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
Reality is subjective and memories unforgiving in this novel set in Ghana and the US, that was longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2024
Updated on Jun 28, 2024 05:50 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
To Lunuganga – architecture as autobiography
Two hours by road from Colombo, Lunuganga, the country estate of the renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, encourages conversations around ecology and art
Review: How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Safiya Sinclair’s memoir documents her life as a child in a strict Rastafarian household with an authoritarian father who fervently adhered to his Sinclair sect
Published on Jun 27, 2024 06:36 PM IST
Amanda Jayatissa – “Writing about Yakkus and exorcisms was liberating”
The Sri Lankan writer’s third novel, ‘Island Witch’, is a supernatural thriller. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Galle Literary Festival, Amanda Jayatissa spoke about the coming-of-age story that is also a reflection on the marginalisation of women, and the clash of cultures
Published on Jun 26, 2024 07:27 PM IST
Shireen Quadri
Review: Birds Aren’t Real by Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos
A clever bird-themed dystopian fable about the risks that come with the widespread denial of truth in a world rife with disinformation
Updated on Jun 26, 2024 05:12 PM IST
Saai Sudharsan Sathiyamoorthy
Andaleeb Wajid – “I don’t want my characters to be unidimensional”
On her latest novel, The Henna Start-up being shortlisted for the Neev Book Award, writing romances, her books being adapted for OTT, and her upcoming memoir
Published on Jun 25, 2024 06:27 PM IST
Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?
Our investigation suggests it is
Published on Jun 23, 2024 08:00 AM IST
The Economist
Book Box | Three unexpected ways to introduce yourself
Experimenting with tell-me-about-yourself questions reveals creative ways of connecting with people
Published on Jun 23, 2024 12:37 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is book that looks at how a fringe movement changed how a generation thinks about money, a coming-of-age narrative set in a coal-mining town, and a thriller about the terror in finding out who your family really is
Published on Jun 21, 2024 10:25 PM IST
HT Team
Interview: Vincent Brown, Author, Tacky’s Revolt
On an important slave revolt during the 18th century Atlantic slave trade actually being part of a larger war between emerging colonial powers, the interconnected world, and how warfare has consequences in distant locales
Published on Jun 21, 2024 10:23 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024, Brotherless Night is the story of a family caught between the violence of the state and of the militant Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan civil war
Published on Jun 21, 2024 10:23 PM IST
Rutba Iqbal
