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Maya Sharma: “TV newsrooms are staffed by people from privileged backgrounds”

Updated on Aug 31, 2026 12:58 IST

Author Maya Sharma (Courtesy the subject)

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of poetry that looks at writing, cityscapes, and broken husbands, a volume on how disease reshaped colonial policy,and how its politics is present in India today, and a book on an eminent artist. (Amit Sharma)

Published on Aug 28, 2026 21:42 IST

Makenna Goodman: “Love is about finding a place of true relating”

Author Makenna Goodman (Sam Kelman)

Published on Aug 28, 2026 21:40 IST

Review: A Celebration of Memories by Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi ‘Sahar’

About 50,000 people in the refugee camp at Purana Qila, New Delhi, waiting for protected transport to Pakistan even as the city struggled to house thousands more coming in from the newly formed country in 1947. (Bettmann Archive)

Published on Aug 28, 2026 21:38 IST

Review: The Man Who Made Plants Write

Jagadish Chandra Bose (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Aug 28, 2026 21:36 IST

A poetic time capsule

Adil Jussawalla (Kunal Patil/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Aug 28, 2026 11:14 IST

Are we devouring the planet?

The death of forests (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 27, 2026 09:45 IST

Review: It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez

Remembrance of things past. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 27, 2026 07:16 IST

Sweet bookstores in Alabama

The Haunted Book Shop stocks contemporary and classic books and runs book clubs across different genres (Courtesy The Haunted Book Shop)

Updated on Aug 26, 2026 15:15 IST

Ria Chopra: “While the Internet makes us open, it also makes us overexposed”

Author Ria Chopra (Courtesy Bloomsbury Publishing)

Published on Aug 25, 2026 07:33 IST

Sarah Waheed: “Chand Bibi’s legacy unsettles modern nationalisms”

Author Sarah Waheed (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Aug 24, 2026 14:38 IST

Review: The Whistleblower’s Wife by Biman Nath

Inside a research lab during the pandemic in May 2020. (Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

Published on Aug 21, 2026 21:36 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a murder mystery, a book on the effect of social policies, and a volume on Santiniketan. (Amit Sharma)

Published on Aug 21, 2026 21:34 IST

Samanth Subramanian: “All technology is human”

Author Samanth Subramanian (Chinky Shukla)

Published on Aug 21, 2026 21:32 IST

Review: The New Divide by Jibu Elias

AI and the unknowable future (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 21, 2026 21:30 IST

Chronic illness and the quest for love

Measuring love in teaspoons. (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 21, 2026 07:45 IST

Review: The Meat Market by Mashiul Alam

A snapshot of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 20, 2026 12:06 IST

Review: Sweet Malida by Zilka Joseph

Picture from a family album: A Bene Israel wedding photograph (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Aug 20, 2026 10:38 IST

The world can’t get enough of Panem

Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy in Sunrise on the Reaping (Courtesy Lionsgate)

Updated on Aug 19, 2026 07:46 IST

Luke Kennard: “Even in the worst situations, there’s usually something funny”

Luke Kennard (Billie Charity/Courtesy The Booker Prizes)

Updated on Aug 18, 2026 08:16 IST

Anushka Jasraj: “The stories became a way to process ideas for myself”

Anushka Jasraj (Courtesy the author)

Updated on Aug 17, 2026 13:29 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on a rebel begam, a contemporary translation of the Gita Govinda, and a volume on the undersea cables that connect the world (Amit Sharma)

Published on Aug 14, 2026 21:36 IST

Tishani Doshi: ‘Writing a poem can be a hugely optimistic act’

Poet Tishani Doshi (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Aug 14, 2026 21:34 IST

Review: Unfolding by Rahul Singh

People at a bathing ghat along the Hooghly River in Kolkata. (Sudipta Das/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Published on Aug 14, 2026 21:32 IST

Review: The Corpse Collector by Vinu P and Niyas Kareem

Vinu P, the man who assists police in Kerala to recover dead bodies. (Courtesy Juggernaut)

Published on Aug 14, 2026 21:30 IST

Review: Al-Qata’i; Ibn Tulun’s City Without Walls by Reem Bassiouney

A market in Cairo (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 14, 2026 08:53 IST

Report: Malhar and the Sea 2026

Ustad Shujaat Khan in performance (Courtesy Malhar and the Sea)

Updated on Aug 14, 2026 08:55 IST

Review: Era of India by Minhaz Merchant

The rise of an economic power (Shutterstock)

Published on Aug 13, 2026 10:14 IST

Remembering the American who built Baroda’s library network

Central Library, Vadodara (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Aug 12, 2026 13:11 IST

Sinéad Gleeson: “In fiction, you can do anything”

Irish author Sinead Gleeson (Courtesy Ubud Writers and Readers Festival)

Published on Aug 11, 2026 06:20 IST

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