Mr. Tarun Tejpal, the famous editor of Tehelka weekly, recently hogged the limelight for an altogether different reason. The journalist, who...

Read the snippets (all of them) from the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2005 here: http://www.crimsonfeet.org/article348.html...

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s first novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the 2004 Betty Trask Award. Ever since his emergence on the literary s...

The Fringe Club in Hong Kong Central is Hong Kong's contemporary arts space. 

Hari Kunzru, the Wire-geek turned writer, was to speak on the craft of writing satire at the Fringe Club, Hong Kong’s contemporary arts spac...

“When you fly to Hong Kong, try to get a window seat,” I remembered these words of advice from the Fodor’s Travel Guidebook while looking do...

There are those who love R K Narayan's Malgudi. And there are those who hate it. For a long time I was in the latter category. When I wa...

Liked this joke from Vinod Mehta's diary. Enjoy: The great American playwright Arthur Miller, who passed away last week, used to regale ...

Writing a novel is an arduous exercise. Reading about the process of writing a novel is so fascinating. I am a sucker for such details. Here...

With Tokyo Cancelled, a new Indian literary star is born or so it seems. The proof is in the fact that even a curmudgeonly dame like Shashi ...

During Chinese New Year, I was in Johor Bahru. Was bowled over by the beauty of this mosque, which was not far from Hyatt. 

Happy New Year at Orchard Road, Singapore! 

This is the first post in 2005. I am dedicating it to bibliobuli. He woke me up. All these days I did not feel like writing here. The end of...

William Faulkner delivered the following moving speech on accepting the Nobel prize. So relevant for writers of our generation too! ...

I found the following as interesting developments (copy and paste the urls in the browser window to access the news items): Now, universi...

Read my article "Whorrible!" at www.chowk.com.

I often wonder: why write? Why write when you can watch a movie or eat a gourmet dish or have sex or work overtime and earn more money? Why ...

In Kurusawa's "Dreams" the first story is about a boy who, in the first scene, comes out of a house and stands at the entrance...

Journalist-turned-author Inderjit Badhwar has won the prestigious French literary award Le Prix Litteraire for his debut novel La Chambre De...

Last night I had a chance to sneak preview Gurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice (B&P). I didn't go in with much expectations...