Hell, no, I'm not saying this. Ha Jin is saying this. If I did, in the first place, you won't believe me. Some think I'm nuts an...

Today I read in the ST that Chetan Bhagat's bestselling novel, One Night @ The Call Centre has been optioned for filming by Bollywood d...

Sounds like the title of the next 007 movie, doesn't it? But hey, it is just a word of advice. From Vikram Seth. To an aspiring writer. ...

Ustaad Zakir Hussain and the accompanying musicians held a riveting concert last Sunday in the Esplanade Concert Theatre. Singapore's Pr...

Here are two new articles: Raising the Asian Flag: Asian filmmakers rebel against Hollywood AMU at the Crossroads Enjoy and send me your com...

Ustaad Zakir Hussain is one of the most charismatic musicians of India. I had seen him act in movies, or playing the tabla on tv, or promoti...

Meet novelist Vikram Chandra, after a long time, here . He is off with his beard now. He took many years to hit the bookstands again. His la...

These days, apart from Chetan Bhagat and Samit Basu, one more name is doing the rounds of the litblog world in India. The name is Siddharth ...

I first read it in Kitabkhana , and it amused me no end. You take a famous manuscript (book) by a famous writer and send it out to agents/pu...

I was all excited to see Peter Jackson's King Kong on the big screen (I had not seen the 1930's one) and when the sneak shows were a...

The year's biggest disappointment was Ketan Mehta's Mangal Pandey--The Rising . Amir had given four years of his life to this film a...

Today is the first day of 2006 and I am writing my first post of the year. My new born daughter has practically kept me awake the whole nigh...

All these weeks and months, I have been busy writing and publishing stories here and there. Some of my latest writings that you can check ou...

Preeta Krishna (India) is the winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Short Story Competition (administered by the CBA or Commonwealth Broadcasting ...

In the last few weeks, India lost two literary figures: eminent Hindi writer Nirmal Verma and Punjabi poetess and novelist, Amrita Pritam. W...

In the recent months, a Hindi film, Bunty Aur Babli, starring the father-son duo of Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, did very well o...

Vikram Seth is touring the world promoting his latest work, Two Lives . A few weeks ago, he was in India and lots of his interviews appeared...

Enjoyed reading this piece "Character Building" by Juliet Sutcliffe in The Guardian. It is about Juliet's experience of going ...

With Freedom Comes Responsibility Gone are the days when one could say anything behind the anonymity of cyberspace and get away with it Read...

Novelist Hari Kunzru seems to have had a bad time in Maldives. He recently went to the tropical paradise to have a nice time in the sun and ...