Fiammetta Rocco, the literary editor of The Economist, was one of the judges in this year's Man Booker Prize. She has written an interes...

I was astonished to hear that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel in ten years has been pirated even before its official release! Gar...

My friend Shakeel writes about asses in one of his latest posts. Like all men who have fire in their loins, he too loves watching asses. And...

Moni sent me this piece on Friends. The writer's observations are honest, and I can see the pain of losing friends in her writing. An...

In the recent years, each year the Nobel Prize for Literature introduces us to a new writer in some corner of the earth. And soon, we dig up...

I had read Mulk's Coolie. It read so Indian. I had the same feeling reading R K Narayan. It all had seemed translated from one of the In...

"...Your sari wears a grin/where your buttocks have sucked it in." "Which sets us all back by a good ten seconds. It isn’t ...

This is for Shakeel and Dina: "Sometime in late 1974, Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel, Arun Kolatkar and I decided to form a small publ...

I have never been to Bombay, err Mumbai. That's a confession, and I am really ashamed. But I can't do anything but to blame the circ...

A friend popped up the question: "Is it necessary that an artist must be poor, so poor that he does not even know where his next meal i...

These days, more often than not, ideas about Islamic radicalism overwhelm my mind. The killings, the beheadings, the tortures--from Iraq to ...

I guess it was Tarun Tejpal who said--scratch an Indian and you will find a novelist. And who said, scratch a Russian and you will find a...

Can you believe that the following authors indulged in self-publishing at one point of their career? Mark Twain Stephen Crane Benjami...

Snatched it and committed to memory: "What have they got in their newspapers? Not even tits coz they haven't got even tits!...

"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have ...

"I think that's pretty much how it is. You can't always see, I think, the reality of what we're doing in the pathological v...

Tried to see this experimental film, Dogville, with Nicole Kidman. The film is on a stage, and everything happens there only! It is so frust...

Recently saw this Tom Cruise film, The Last Samurai. Had the writer and director worked a little harder, the film would have become a classi...

Really liked Said's comment on Naipaul and others in the essay "Writing to the moment" (Tom Paulin in The Guardian, September ...

The writerly life fascinates me. There is a certain charm and sadness about it. And I keep looking for nuggets on writers’ lives, hoping for...