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LGBTQIA+ Rights in India: Lawyer Rohin Bhatt on Supreme Court’s Marriage Equality Verdict and his New Book
1 month ago

LGBTQIA+ Rights in India: Lawyer Rohin Bhatt on Supreme Court’s Marriage Equality Verdict and his New Book

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 19, 2024 17:33 IST - 8 MINS READ On October 17, 2023, the Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Supriyo v. Union of India. In October, Bhatt released The Urban Elite versus Union of India, “a first-of-its-kind book” on queer rights. However, the queer person in me and the activist in me would often be conflicted, because …

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Children’s Day 2024: Books about empathy towards the self and the world
1 month, 1 week ago

Children’s Day 2024: Books about empathy towards the self and the world

Live Mint  

Climate and ecology When Fairyland Lost Its Magic For ages 10 and above Authored by Bijal Vachharajani and illustrated by Rajiv Eipe, this book is a retelling of classic fairy tales but with a twist. Chasing the Rain For ages six to eight Written by Mukta Patil and illustrated by David Yambem, the book looks at how enmeshed our lives …

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The Enigma of the Karachi Murder: A Journey Through Language, Politics, and Terror
2 months ago

The Enigma of the Karachi Murder: A Journey Through Language, Politics, and Terror

Hindustan Times  

This article explores the 1970 murder of a young poet in Karachi, Pakistan, and the subsequent investigation and retelling of the events by authors Saba Imtiaz and Tooba Masood-Khan. The book delves into motives, revenge, and the complexities of the case, shedding light on the cultural and political landscape of the country in the aftermath of the 1965 partition.

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Book Discussion: 'The Urban Elite V. Union Of India' By Rohit Bhatt [17th October]
2 months, 1 week ago

Book Discussion: 'The Urban Elite V. Union Of India' By Rohit Bhatt [17th October]

Live Law  

A book discussion on the book 'The Urban Elite V. Union Of India' by Rohit Bhatt is being organised at the India International centre on 17th October. The Urban Elite versus Union of India is a first-of-its-kind book on queer rights not just of the courtroom, but of the author's own life. Rohin Bhatt's new book titled 'The urban elite …

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Mughal Glass: Read an exclusive excerpt from the book by Tara Desjardins
3 months ago

Mughal Glass: Read an exclusive excerpt from the book by Tara Desjardins

Hindustan Times  

The history of Indian glass is, in fact, two histories: that of glass’ evolution within the history of glass production, and the other, the history of the Indian subcontinent during the early modern period. Both histories develop in parallel until they collide in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, at precisely the point where the development of new glass …

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Meet the makers of a new film about a forgotten cricket icon
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Meet the makers of a new film about a forgotten cricket icon

Hindustan Times  

In the popular discourse, two names tussle for that title. And Colonel Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, independent India’s first cricket captain; a dashing, 6’ 2” tall batsman who could hit sixes at will. His sixes, moreover, were “interpreted as a nationalist answer to the British Raj”, historian Ramachandra Guha writes, in A Corner of a Foreign Field, his sweeping book on …

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Twinkle Khanna says 'it is safer for strees of this country to encounter a ghost in a dark alley than a man'
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Twinkle Khanna says 'it is safer for strees of this country to encounter a ghost in a dark alley than a man'

Hindustan Times  

Twinkle Khanna, aka Mrs Funnybones, spoke about the 'strees ' of India not being scared of ghosts in her latest column for The Times of India, titled 'Why ghosts don’t scare the Indian Stree'. 'We are still teaching our daughters the same things’ She then went on to list how horror movies seem to contain 'less unsettling components than the …

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Book Review | Renewal or break? A Partition memoir
5 months ago

Book Review | Renewal or break? A Partition memoir

Deccan Chronicle  

As a member of a Partition-affected family, I have always had a strong attraction to stories about that time in India when cries for division were suddenly added to calls for Independence from British rule. Yet the second my editor suggested that I review Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence by Mishal Husain, a British journalist of Pakistani …

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The Hindu on Books newsletter: Kamal Haasan’s film journey, talking to Anita Desai, Esther Duflo’s book for kids and more
5 months, 1 week ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter: Kamal Haasan’s film journey, talking to Anita Desai, Esther Duflo’s book for kids and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. A mix of fiction and non fiction, Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend, the story of two friends set in 1960s Naples, topped the list, with Isabel Wilkerson, Hilary Mantel, Robert Bolano, Colson Whitehead, Kazuo Ishiguro and Marilynne Robinson also in the top 10. In reviews, we read director and …

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‘Mughal Glass’ | Tara Desjardins’ new book tracks the history of glassmaking in India
5 months, 1 week ago

‘Mughal Glass’ | Tara Desjardins’ new book tracks the history of glassmaking in India

The Hindu  

In a lyrical painting by the master Nainsukh, set in rolling mustard fields abloom in yellow, an aesthete Mian is on horseback with his gorgeous lady in red. I have seen so many Indian paintings with huqqa bearers, but never thought much of them till I saw the luxurious gilded green glass base that adorns the cover of Mughal Glass …

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Saina Nehwal Lauds PM Modi's Tireless Energy: 'At 73, He's Everywhere'
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Saina Nehwal Lauds PM Modi's Tireless Energy: 'At 73, He's Everywhere'

Deccan Chronicle  

Olympic Bronze Medalist Saina Nehwal commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his exceptional stamina and ability to maintain a demanding international travel schedule at the age of 73. The latest book from Gupta, on the eve of 2024 Election battle, is a comic book on the 10 Years of PM Narendra Modi’s work. She recounted how during her campaign in …

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Remembering the work of psychoanalyst and writer Sudhir Kakar
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Remembering the work of psychoanalyst and writer Sudhir Kakar

Live Mint  

Many years ago in a café in Paris, psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar and novelist Namita Gokhale spent hours talking about mysticism and the Bhutanese-Tibetan monk Drukpa Kunley. The author Daniel J. Meckel, an associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at the St. Mary’s College of Maryland writes that with the book, “Kakar once again brings an extraordinary depth of psychoanalytic …

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The book that wanted to be a movie
9 months, 1 week ago

The book that wanted to be a movie

Live Mint  

Before every election season, curiously “well-timed” political books materialise, directly or indirectly funded by candidates on the ballot. The first page begins with a cacophony of newspaper headlines from 2032—“China Attacks India!”, “Rohtang Pass Falls in Surprise Attack”—being read by one of the novel’s main characters, Seth Singh, the richest man in Lalbag, Punjab. Before 10 pages are up, Seth …

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Review: H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Review: H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit

Hindustan Times  

Seemingly benign yet insidious, the Hindutva pop playlist includes songs set to hypnotic beats with lyrics that hint at an Islamic takeover of India, or which claim to tell the truth about India’s freedom struggle. In H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars, journalist Kunal Purohit begins by conducting a post mortem of a riot in Jharkhand. Both Kamal …

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Infinite scrawl : A Tamil manuscript in Venice unlocks stories of ancient India
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite scrawl : A Tamil manuscript in Venice unlocks stories of ancient India

Hindustan Times  

It was the monsoon of 1718, at a Jesuit mission. More than 300 years later, the text he framed to help them — handwritten in Tamil on strips of dried palm leaf — would turn up in an Armenian monastery in Venice, found and identified only because a Tamilian scholar from Delhi wouldn’t stop knocking on the monastery’s doors. When …

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Review: A Walk up the Hill by Madhav Gadgil
1 year, 2 months ago

Review: A Walk up the Hill by Madhav Gadgil

Hindustan Times  

Ever wondered what makes Goa one of the greenest states in India? 412pp, ₹999; Penguin As one of India’s foremost environmentalists and the eponymous head of the Gadgil Commission, Madhav Gadgil’s life is rich with varied experiences. Through the book, readers get a front-seat view as Gadgil tastes raw crab with local fisherfolk, partakes of sweet plant-sucking bugs for dessert …

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Take a deep dive into India’s chaat and street food culture with the book India Local
1 year, 2 months ago

Take a deep dive into India’s chaat and street food culture with the book India Local

The Hindu  

October 16, 2023 04:27 pm | Updated October 17, 2023 11:01 am IST The introductory paragraph to Sonal Ved’s latest cookbook, India Local, describes it as a ‘cross-country culinary adventure’. “I started work on this book two-and-a-half years ago,” says Sonal, who was working on Tastemade India’s cookery show Chaats of India then. It made me wonder where our authentic …

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Books on cricket | 11 for the pitch happy
1 year, 2 months ago

Books on cricket | 11 for the pitch happy

The Hindu  

There has to be a cut-off, or we will spend all our time discussing Cardus and Arlott, Fingleton and Robinson and the incomparable C.L.R. Let’s start with Cricket War, therefore, Haigh’s exploration of “the end of cricket as we knew it — and the beginning of cricket as we know it”. Guha sees the game from the angles of race, …

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Mumbai Boy Performs Hula Hoop Spins While Standing on Inverted Earthen Pot, Creates Record
1 year, 5 months ago

Mumbai Boy Performs Hula Hoop Spins While Standing on Inverted Earthen Pot, Creates Record

News 18  

Ridhaan Shah, a second-grader from Mumbai, has recently achieved a remarkable feat that sets him apart from many kids his age. During the event, Ridhaan simultaneously solved a 3 x 3 tiny Rubik’s Cube while skillfully spinning a hula hoop atop an upside-down earthen pot. “We wanted Ridhaan to set a unique record since solving Rubik’s cube and hula hoops …

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Bookshelf | What’s new on the shelves?
1 year, 5 months ago

Bookshelf | What’s new on the shelves?

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 29, 2023 11:00 IST - 2 MINS READ Locust Lane Stephen Amidon Celadon Books Rs.650 Emerson, Massachusetts seems like any other posh New England suburb. ___ ___ From Manjunath to Manjamma: The Inspiring Life of a Transgender Folk Artist Manjamma Jogathi with Harsha Bhat HarperCollins Rs.399 From being ostracised for her “difference” to becoming a proponent of …

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How restaurants, MasterChef and YouTube shaped Indian food
1 year, 8 months ago

How restaurants, MasterChef and YouTube shaped Indian food

Live Mint  

Charmaine O’Brien’s newest release – her third book, Eating the Present, Tasting the Future with the subtext, Exploring India through her changing food—had me smiling right from her introduction. The smile stayed because O’Brien’s book, that releases today, chronicles the change in her understanding of India, its culture and food over several years of subsequent visits. Across O’Brien’s 392-pager, you …

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HT Picks; New Reads
1 year, 10 months ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times  

From Raj to Swaraj and Beyond Interesting reads this week include a history of Hindi-language journalism in India, a chronicle of a literary family that brings alive its members over the generations, and a cook book of dals from across the country. She discusses its early days as nationalist newspapers in the colonial period;its subservience to the English print media …

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Entrepreneurs should read THESE 5 books to make a successful career in business
1 year, 10 months ago

Entrepreneurs should read THESE 5 books to make a successful career in business

India TV News  

The only way to find calm and comfort in today's highly uncertain world is via books. The top 5 business books you shouldn't miss reading this year are as follows: Engineered in India: From Dreams to Billion-Dollar Cyient Authored by BVR Mohan Reddy is the story of a young man who steps out of the precincts of IIT Kanpur in …

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Alexandra Pringle: ‘I don’t like writing that is showing off’
1 year, 11 months ago

Alexandra Pringle: ‘I don’t like writing that is showing off’

Hindustan Times  

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, you are in conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah, Howard Jacobson, Charlie Redmayne, Milee Ashwarya, and Hemali Sodhi on three different panels. With Abdulrazak Gurnah, I look forward to discussing the journeys of his life and work – how he grew up in Zanzibar with the sea all around him, watching boats come and go, plying their …

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