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My dad late Commander C Narayanan, Vizag, mid 1970s. He taught me to appreciate good writing and to sniff out fakery
#Father'sDay
On November 12, 2023, a tunnel under construction at Silkyara in Uttarakhand collapsed, trapping 41 labourers. Journalist @saurabhsherry vividly recounts the story of the rescue operation in his first book, Operation Silkyara. @mayankparichha reviews.
hindustantimes.com/s/1k2g6ZU
Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas, translated from the original Urdu by Daisy Rockwell, is an unsettling prose poem. Review by @chintanwriting
hindustantimes.com/s/1k3PUyO
"Earlier, Indians measured time by the 24 minute 'ghati' and used water clocks. Colonialism brought the 60 minute hour and mechanical clock towers"
- Debashis Das, author, Clock Towers of India, on the many fantastic clock towers across the country. Link in thread
@niyogibooks
#podcast
On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of Sleep Journeys by Azra Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Daisy Rockwell, and Operation Silkyara: The Untold Story of One of India's Greatest Rescue Missions by @saurabhsherry + an interview with @ruthvikarao, author, All Our Evenings
@juggernautbooks
@PenguinIndia
Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books &Authors podcast with Debasish Das, author, Clock Towers of India, and to a review of @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted Things We Never Say by @LizStrout
@niyogibooks
Read the @htTweets Books page in the epaper:
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Blister beetle on a bush morning glory Ipomoea carnea urf besharm cos it grows everywhere lol native to tropical America #weedoftheday #gurgaon
Got on my bike after ages today. Weather's getting better; hope everything else wl too.🤞Pic 2 is me in biker hijab with Dilli's rakshasas - the paper ones 😉
Pic 3 is cos I want every1 to see my tshirt which says "I work hard cos I want my dog to have a better life" #sachh
On the 2026 @TheBookerPrizes shortlist, The End of Everything by M John Harrison is a work of speculative fiction that’s also a literary novel, a social satire, and a philosophical meditation on what it means to be human. Review by @pranavi_sharma
hindustantimes.com/s/1jMqeOm
This week’s pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes a book about a historical relic that also traces the arc of Bhagat Singh’s intellectual evolution, another on how disease reshaped colonial policy, and a volume of Rumer Godden’s writing
hindustantimes.com/s/1jNVv4C
In the Realm of the Last Man by @FukuyamaFrancis asks why liberal democracy keeps producing people who want to tear it down. Review by @nawaidanjum
hindustantimes.com/s/1jNVP6G
Historian Deana Heath and political scientist @LokaneetaJinee, co-editors of Policing and Violence in India, discuss the use of force and the suppression of dissent @chintanwriting
hindustantimes.com/s/1jNUt8K
"Raghu Rai captured images truthfully. That's the kind of person he was. The work is him and he is his work"
- Gurmeet Sangha Rai talks to me on the Books & Authors podcast about Animals by Raghu Rai, a selection of pictures clicked over the last six decades
@HarperCollinsIN
On the @htTweets Books page today, an interview with Deana Heath+ @LokaneetaJinee, co-editors, Policing and Violence in India, a review of @FukuyamaFrancis 's In the Realm of the Last Man + an interview with Sean Hewitt, author, Open, Heaven
@speakingtiger14 @HachetteIndia
Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with Gurmeet Sangha Rai on Raghu Rai's stunning new book, Animals, and to a review of the @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted The End of Everything by M John Harrison
@HarperCollinsIN
Read the @htTweets Books page in the epaper:
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