Gunter Grass provides us a poignantly-written peek into his Waffen S.S. days--something that also brought him great disrepute when he first ...

Book reviewing can be a dangerous pursuit. Why? Because sometimes writers can be such pricky ingratiates (writers are expected to be humble ...

As the latest edition of IIFA Awards go to Sheffield, UK, in June, trite articles on Bollywood have started to appear in the UK media. Here...

As the whole world is raising a toast to a rising India, the global Indians have one more reason to cheer: the launch of a multicolored, hig...

Welcome to Singapore! says Capt Sao Feng (Chow Yun Fat) in The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. In this third part in the Pirat...

India had Nadira. Singapore had Nadra. Have you heard this name before? Most people in this region know her as Bertha Hertogh or Maria Herto...

Is smoking linked with creativity? Smoking is one of the most indefensible habits but many creative people indulge in it. Why is smoking so ...

If you follow Indian dance and music, you might have heard of Astad Deboo. He is a very well-known Indian dancer who excels in developing hi...

Sadaat Hasan Manto was Urdu fiction's enfante terrible. There was a time when writers like Manto, Krishan Chandar, R S Bedi, Qurrat ul ...

How does a publisher know that the manuscript he is looking at is a potential bestseller? The answer is he doesn't. He only has a hunch ...

Recently, quite a number of good (and bad) books on the art of the novel have been appearing in the bookstores, and I, for one, have no comp...

I'm really looking forward to read two books which are still in the making (apart from Professor Amitava Kumar's Home Products of co...

Are lit bloggers pushing the traditional book reviewers to the margins? This is the latest literary question the western media is asking the...

Three of us were on our way to the Indo Chine Forbidden City at Clark Quay for MediaCorp's Trade Networking event on Friday. All of us w...

Except for a few, most established writers don't blog. Why? I'd like to think that they already are famous, they have a fan followin...

The other day I was in the company of my Sri Lankan friends. The discussion included mostly cricket (the world cup was dragging to an end), ...

These days watching a Hollywood film is like reading a newspaper article. You take your chances at your own peril. In the last few weeks, I ...

Most book reviews are serious stuff but very often they are not interesting reads. It applies to both fiction and non-fiction book reviews. ...

History can often be a treacherous territory. Though history is written by the victors, they may not necessarily come out winners in the end...

If one were asked to imagine how many consumer products are so exciting that they deserve books written on them, the answer would be difficu...