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This week's pick of interesting reads on Hindustan Times includes a volume on a region that greatly influences India's politics, culture and identity, a book on the power of data, and recipes from the princely state of Rampur hindustantimes.com/books/ht-picks…

"Here's a system that we all created together that allows for our exploitation through the prism of services we actually do get some benefit from" - Vauhini Vara, author, Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age talks to me abt Google, AI and more #podcast open.spotify.com/episode/35xvI2…

My review of Amol Palekar's eminently readable, Viewfinder Hindustan Times manjula narayan Westland Books #memoirs #actor hindustantimes.com/books/review-v…

The wet dream of tech bros in Bangalore, an idol for Joe Rogan watchers and an aspirational figure for US right-wing, Elon Musk sums up everything wrong with the world at the moment. For Hindustan Times I reviewed HUBRIS MAXIMUS: THE SHATTERING OF ELON MUSK by Faiz Siddiqui

Award-winning author #VauhiniVara talks to host #ManjulaNarayan (manjula narayan) on #BooksAndAuthors Podcast by Hindustan Times about her book latest book #Searches, drawing on insights from her years as a technology journalist to examine how tech has become enmeshed even in our lives.

I interviewed scientist and Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan for Hindustan Times. His book, Why We Die, is published by Hachette India. Our Q&A was edited by manjula narayan. hindustantimes.com/books/venki-ra…

Interviewed #SophieMackintosh at this year’s KeralaLiteratureFest for Hindustan Times / manjula narayan We cover all her literary works, so give it a ready maybe? Penguin India The Booker Prizes Doubleday Women's Prize #TheCursedBread #BlueTicket #TheWaterCure hindustantimes.com/books/sophie-m…

Quite pleased to announce that one of my essays is part of this collection. I'm quite a lazy person, especially when it comes to writing. I mean pulling teeth feels more enjoyable! So I really have to thank Ritu Menon of Women Unlimited for getting me to write 🙂🙏🙏

To read how I ended up interviewing Catherine Chidgey, you may check the comment below, but if you want to plunge right away into what informs her fiction and how she crafted the brilliant novels she has gifted us, here you go: hindustantimes.com/books/catherin… Thank you so much manjula narayan! 🌸

"Food was my grandmother's love language. This book includes dishes that are most symbolic of Rampur, which has UP, Awadhi, Afghani and Persian influences" - Pernia Qureshi, author, Ammi's Kitchen, talks to me abt taar gosht, kathal kababs and more! open.spotify.com/episode/4xPj7q…

In The Notbook of Kabir, the author Anand, who is sharply aware of his own entitlements and privileges, draws readers into a journey of discovering Kabir beyond scholars and school books - Review by Charumathi Supraja hindustantimes.com/books/review-t…

“Putting horror centre stage cheapens the story” - Catherine Chidgey talks to Saurabh about the isolation of the Antipodean author, and about writing stories that sing to her the loudest hindustantimes.com/books/catherin…

"In Little Lhasa, a collection of engaging essays and interviews, novelist and journalist Tsering Namgyal Khortsa takes us deep into the cultural and political world of the Tibetan-in-exile" — palash mehrotra reviews hindustantimes.com/books/review-l…

What would happen to a person trapped in time? Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I tries to answer this question Rahul Singh reviews hindustantimes.com/books/review-o…

On the Hindustan Times reading list this week is a book on how diasporic South Asians have shaped LGBTQ+ movements in Britain since the 1970s, another on the link between notes and numbers, and a Korean novel on female friendships hindustantimes.com/books/ht-picks…