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Report: Jaipur Literature Festival 2026

India, Feb. 28 -- It is a truth, now universally acknowledged, that not a single reader in possession of caste and class privilege in India must ever be in want of a literary festival to attend. The I... Read More


On Delhi's many stories

India, Feb. 9 -- Dilli Ki, the festival? Aishwarya Jha: Actually, our guru inspired the festival. We both study under the same guru, Mother, who teaches us Advaita Vedanta. We have traveled all over ... Read More


Winter reading retreats in the Himalayas

India, Feb. 4 -- Though the first tendrils of spring seem poised to appear in the capital, it is still wintry hygge time in north India. What this calls for is a glass window overlooking the mountains... Read More


Review: Katabasis by RF Kuang

India, Jan. 27 -- RF Kuang's propensity for satire has won her a cult following. While her speculative fiction novel, Babel (2022), crucified the very foundations of Western 'liberal' knowledge produc... Read More


HT reviewer Simar Bhasin picks her favourite reads of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- This year, two works of literary fiction blew me away, both as a research scholar working on texts that may be termed as belonging to the genre of 'migrant fiction' as well as a lite... Read More