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Editor, Books page @httweets, Host, Books&Authors podcast. Click on link in bio to listen to 200+ episodes. Personal account. Views not of employer.🇮🇳
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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
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And if you want to access all HT reviewers' picks for 2025 in one place: https://t.co/AQLVLcAuIh
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This year, HT reviewers found themselves reading everything from children’s books to a 1,100-year-old Arabic text about dogs being more virtuous and capable than humans. Historical fiction set in the...
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HT reviewer Syed Saad Ahmed @saadsye picks his favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/Fj5P0CUvJI
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Technology is not an inevitability. This book shows why we should all be Luddites to build a better world
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HT reviewer @UttaranDasGupta picks his favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/YxVk1GM6pJ
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On a group from the first generation of university-educated young men in India, whose ideas like secularism, freedom of speech, equality, and inclusivity, the author claims, were later adopted by...
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HT reviewer @TejaLele picks her favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/cNh4bTbchP
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Turncoat or tactician? Resurrecting Jane Boleyn, one of the most misrepresented women in English history
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HT reviewer @suhitbombaywala picks his favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/pvkzUwB3GB
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Based on the Pali canon, this book deals with rites of passage at various points of a layperson’s life
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HT reviewer Simar Bhasin @simarb_92 picks her favourite reads of 2025 https://t.co/NBfalEmhBM
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Two works that critique the nexus of politics and capitalism and also use varieties of English that reflect the hybridity and the geographically broad scope of the texts
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HT reviewer Saurabh Sharma @writerly_life picks their favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/meOIgjFZJB
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Unlike any other story of emotional abuse within a marriage, this novel is about sensing — and finally tasting — freedom
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HT reviewer @saudaminijain picks her favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/FxjzCNZ0Eu
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An astonishing book on the family of aristocrats who lived for decades in Malcha Mahal, a medieval hunting lodge in Delhi’s Ridge
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HT reviewer Rutvik Bhandari @themindlessmess picks his favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/UrHK9uwm7P
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A novel about the absurdity of life that looks at humanity with so much gentleness that readers can’t help but look at themselves, and everyone else too, more softly
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HT reviewer Pranavi Sharma @pranavi_sharma picks her favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/QgAzifN85u
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A debut collection of 11 short stories framed by the nondescript lives of Kashmiris that are rooted wholly in the place they are written from
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HT reviewer Lamat R Hasan @LamatAyub picks her favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/4vjFjMwO8L
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In this 1,100 year old Arabic text, the Baghdad-based author laments that he is surrounded by greedy and untrustworthy men and concludes that dogs are far more virtuous and capable
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HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra @cjmitra picks his favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/szvqb6Gcy6
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Translated from the original Hindi, this collection of a novella and five short stories unveils social hypocrisy and shows how the powerful rewrite reality and fool the masses
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HT reviewer Chintan Girish Modi @chintanwriting picks his favourite reads of 2025 https://t.co/kdc4libhPn
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A short biography of the Rice Man of India, Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade, and a book about a child’s discovery of his passion for medu vadas, that is also a tribute to the openness that migrants bring...
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HT reviewer Arunima Mazumdar @sermoninstone picks her favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/Tw2lhiUPuh
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A novel about a mother-daughter duo who spend a summer in Almeria in the south of Spain for the mother to undergo dubious treatments at a wellness clinic
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HT reviewer Akankshya Abismruta @Geekyliterati picks her favourite read of 2025 https://t.co/2GBPFG9nSQ
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Rural India found: translated from the original Telugu, this book shows how dependent humans are on forests for livelihood
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Read the Hindustan Times Books page in the epaper: https://t.co/SAIUjyrCg8
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On the @htTweets Books page today, reviewers pick the best books the read in 2025 @sermoninstone @Geekyliterati @chintanwriting @cjmitra @LamatAyub @pranavi_sharma @themindlessmess @saudaminijain @writerly_life @simarb_92 @suhitbombaywala @TejaLele @UttaranDasGupta @saadsye
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Convinced most of my countrymen are deaf as doornails. Am at a camp in Ranthambhore. Came here to get away from the madness of the city. Hotel next door blasting music. How is this much noise ok next to a forest?
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Woohoo on the way to Rajasthan earlier today. Perfect weather and Im trying to get used to blue skies... Haven't seen them in SO LONG lol
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