Had this opportunity to attend the Monday evening session mysteriously called “The Other Voice - Writings from the Other Side” though by mis...

Tarun Tejpal reading from "Alchemy of Desire" 

I have always admired Tarun Tejpal, India's ace journalist, editor, publisher and now a novelist. I was excited knowing that Tarun was c...

There were two interesting sessions in the evening yesterday: "Sexuality and Desire in Asian Writing" and "The Alchemy of Des...

I was late when I reached to attend a session on "Women and Crime" late in the afternoon yesterday. The panel comprised three writ...

Writers' Festivals are exciting events. Just to see the writers read, speak, laugh, retort and become friendly with their readers and fa...

Personally, I have always been a fan of short stories. I like my Carver and Chekhov better than Hemingway and Updike but no doubt all of the...

Read my op-ed piece " Islamic World's Road to Perdition " in today's Bangkok Post. Any comments?

In this brilliant interview in The Outlook , Arudhati Roy hints at the possibility of writing another novel. After her award-winning debut n...

In his essay, " The lost sub-continent " ( The Guardian, Aug 13 ), William Dalrymple argues that the next batch of successful In...

Singaporeans celebrating National Day at Padang on Aug 9  

Time for a quick literary quiz. He does not like what Graham Green did to himself. You know, he took the Graham Greene figure to the Congo, ...

So, there is going to be blood on the carpet. I'm back to the Booker issue. The Independent carries a cantankerous take on the Booker ta...

So, fiction is back in the debate. Two views, it seems, are running concurrently about fiction, one for it and one against it. On August 7, ...

Day before yesterday I went to see Singapore's National Day Parade at Padang. It was an impressive show but after sitting in the sun for...

Has Rushdie lost it? Amitava Kumar thinks so. In an article in Tehelka , he declares: ...A remarkable passage, and because everything in Rus...

We all dread the slush pile. No one wants to get there, but sometimes one could get lucky. An experienced editor bares it all: On the first ...

Recently I published two pieces: China a hit in Hollywood, Bollywood a flop (Asia Times Online) and Being Imrana (Chowk.com). If you read ...

The late Nirad C. Chaudhuri, who had shot to fame with his first book, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, used to call himself 'the...

I like stories about writers. They fascinate me and make me wonder about the writerly life. I think I have mentioned this so many times in m...