While Singaporeans/Malaysians keep sqabbling over Singlish/Minglish vs Queen's English, Hong Kong has been taking great strides in the l...

J M Coetzee is one of my favourite writers. I have recently finished reading two of his novels, Youth , and Disgrace , and have fallen in lo...

Here I am just bunching together some of the interesting articles/news items that I have read recently: Shalimar the Clown wins Hutch Crossw...

Wachowky Brothers' V for Vendetta turned out to be a gripping fare. Though I am often wary of comic books making a meaningful transitio...

The courageous Aamir Khan, one of the finest Indian actors of our generation, has lashed out at the Indian media for their ever stooping st...

So, why did Brokeback Mountain finally lose out to Crash in the best picture category? The writer of Brokeback Mountain , Annie Proulx (a) ...

I had missed George Clooney's "Good Night and Good Luck" but luckily I was able to catch Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana...

A few weeks ago when I ventured into a local cineplex, I was not sure which film to watch. What I had in mind was Jim Carrey's Fun with ...

Call me whatever you want, but I can't stop loving Woody Allen. Why? His brand of humour (middlebrow?), full of people from the literary...

So how do you write? Standing up, sitting down, in the bathtub, on the back of your lover... Here is an interesting article by diplomat-cu...

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...