Reviewing THE ADVENTURES OF AMIR HAMZA: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami (Translated by...

My friend Simar sent me this article from Slate . It's an interesting dilemma, I'd say: Here is your chance to weigh in on one of t...

I am on Facebook and so are you (if yes, have you found me there yet?). But have you wondered what kind of politics the people behind Facebo...

Crossings, Singapore's Writers Festival 2007, celebrated literature in its myriad forms with over 50 writers from 16 countries in over 1...

She is the daughter of a mother so obsessed with films that she watched a movie on her way to the hospital to deliver a baby. Her father was...

We are saying goodbye to 2007 today. So far, things were going fine--despite the subprime crisis in the US, the news was good for Asia. The ...

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I wanted to call attention to this passionately (as ever) argued piece by Pankaj Mishra in The Guardian where he takes issue with Ayaan Hirs...

Book Review The Elephant, The Tiger and The Cell Phone by Shashi Tharoor Arcade Publishing (New York); $29.96 In the wake of the recent Tehe...

At the recently concluded Singapore Writers Festival, I did not ask anyone to shoot pictures of the participants during my sessions, even th...

In the world of media, content is supposed to be the king. Increasingly, however, distribution of content across a bursting sprectrum of med...

The MSM has picked up this new hook: Nobel laureate Doris Lessing has "used her acceptance speech to rail against the internet, saying ...

On Sunday, Crossings, the Singapore Writers' Festival 2007 , came to a close. For me, the entire festival was an exciting mash-up (ah, s...

Yesterday evening, the Blue Room in Singapore’s Arts House was packed with fans of Elmo Jayawrdena who had turned out in huge numbers to cel...

This outsider made it big ... without a 'godfather' Weekend • December 8, 2007 Zafar Anjum EVERY year, thousands of young men and wo...

I find J M Coetzee's recurrent themes in his later novels--"the aging protagonist, the attraction to a younger woman, the presentim...

Decades ago, when a fledgling Salman Rushdie was starting out as a writer, one of the hands that guided and encouraged him was of Anita Desa...

Mukul Kesavan in his new book, The Ugliness of the Indian Male : When I went looking for a school for my son a decade ago, I used to stroll ...

The harsh reaction by Kuala Lumpur’s police Sunday to a protest organized by the Hindu Rights Action Force, a pressure group established to ...

There are very few film directors in Bollywood who are not only critically acclaimed filmmakers but are also commercially savvy entrepreneur...