Maroc - HINDUSTANTIMES.COM - Books - 03/Jan 12:19

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is an exemplary selection of Mirza Ghalib’s Urdu couplets, translated into English along with critical commentaries, a book featuring ornithologists, naturalists and birdwatchers combing the jungles and grasslands of India to track down the rarest birds of the subcontinent, and a volume that attempts to unpack the social and cultural histories of one of the country’s most diverse states