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Shalini Passi: "Trying to control perception is a losing battle"

India, Jan. 29 -- You note in the Prologue that readers may take your book as a manifesto; however, several personal bits in The Art of Being Fabulous make it appear that Shalini Passi, as most of her... Read More


Richard Flanagan: "It's the job of writing to be true"

India, Jan. 23 -- In Question 7, you note that the "bath before it [when the Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard had come up with the idea of a nuclear chain reaction] is pure fancy on my part." ... Read More


Joan Didion, the cool customer

India, Dec. 23 -- "Yet California has remained in some way impenetrable to me, a wearying enigma, as it has to many of us who were from there. We worry it, correct it and revise it, try and fail to de... Read More


HT reviewer Saurabh Sharma picks their favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- Nesting by Irish author Roisin O'Donnell, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction this year, may seem to be about Ciara Fay's unsettling marital relationship but it is... Read More


Report: The Journeying Across the Himalayas festival

India, Dec. 8 -- A cutesy catlike installation perched on the roof of the Travancore Palace in New Delhi is the first unmissable highlight of Journeying Across the Himalayas, the Royal Enfield Social ... Read More


Report: Art Soiree by StoneX

India, Nov. 14 -- The past is often dressed up to make it look noble so it's usually best left unvisited. But StoneX, a brand that sells marbles and natural stones, is keen for you to go back in time ... Read More


Review: White Lilies; An Essay on Grief by Vidya Krishnan

India, Nov. 13 -- How do you make sense of the death of a beloved partner? How do you think of someone who taught you to "treat herbs with respect" long after their death? How do you make sense of hav... Read More


Andrew Miller: "I wanted to write a novel with lots of good forward energy"

India, Nov. 7 -- Tell us about the history that helped birth this novel. The circumstances for this novel? I borrowed a lot from the young married lives of my parents, as far as I remembered and unde... Read More