I am going away for about two weeks. Travelling again. Will miss you all but hope I will come back with interesting news!

So, the newspapers are agog with news from the Cannes. I opened The Hindustan Times and there were pictures of Aishwarya, along with a Fren...

Reviewer Donald Morrison has given a good review of Tash Aw's novel, The Harmony Silk Factory in the Time . "Malaysia is a land ri...

I do not happily bring bad news about writing and writers. No that doesn't give me a kick. I do not promote e-publishing nor do I approv...

I was beginning to believe that intellectuals no more talked about socialism, capitalism, and globalization. Until I read this piece by Gunt...

Macmillan has come out with a fancy deal for new authors and it has already attracted controversy. As per the scheme, new writers can now di...

First, there was Mohsin Hamid, a Pakistani in the US and an investment banker by profession, who hit the jackpot with his Moth Smoke. Then, ...

A life trapped! Can you see the lizard inside the lamp? Photo taken at the Singapore Botanical Garden.

The past few weeks have seen the end of several interesting blogs. These blogs have been my personal favourites, and it is sad to see them d...

Looks like another Manil Suri in terms of the deal but she is much younger. Here is the news : "A teenaged Indian-American girl, who is...

Desperate writers go for desperate means. And some succeed too. After the vanity press, there is now e-publishing and print-on-demand (POD) ...

J M Coetzee, one of my favourite authors, has done a great review essay on the life of American writer William Faulkner in the new online is...

Talking of Aishwarya Rai (in my previous post), Tehelka has done a good job of blowing the lid off her hype machine. I have been wondering f...

There is a huge splash in the Indian media these days regarding the peace process between India and Pakistan. Pak President Musharraf recent...

Books don't need to be literary to be succeessful. We all know this. We see this every day. Da Vinci Code is such a super seller for su...

View of the sea from Qantab in Muscat 

Friday I returned from Muscat, the capital of the Middle Eastern Sultanate of Oman. I went there last Sunday to present a paper on E-learnin...

Everybody has been talking about Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black. I am sceptical about hyped films but this particular film did not disapp...

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...