Ramachandra Guha writes on V S Naipaul in the Hindustan Times : In the middle of last year I was asked to review Naipaul’s new book, A Write...

In Sunday's Oscars, Javier Bardem's win was a certainty. I had seen the film, No Country for Old men , only last Friday and everythi...

A recent gathering of Indian Muslims declared terrorism un-Islamic. They should have done it a long time ago, but as the saying goes, der aa...

Have you ever wondered what happens to your blog post once you have posted it online? Came across this interesting infographic in Wired mag...

In my most recent post, I was talking about Arundhati Roy and how she was discovered by lit agent David Godwin. Today I want to talk about h...

His motto is: Rob the publisher and enrich the writer. Hmm...so many writers love him. And for the aspiring writers, he is the god of many b...

When I see pictures like this coming from India, I feel angry at the atavistic nature of our politics in my motherland. So much progress, ye...

Looks like Anupama Chopra's (who recently did the biography of Shah Rukh Khan) next book will be on Aishwarya Rai. Just as Jodhaa Akbar ...

The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East (Book) By Kishore Mahbubani Waving Goodbye to Hegemony (Essay)...

I recently read this article in the Outlook magazine that enthusiastically talks about The Big Fat Indian Advance ( Words worth millions ). ...

Hanif Kureishi, discussing the social influences on The Buddha of Suburbia , talks about the influence his novel exerted on the literary sce...

I have often wondered about this: most of my friends, who are not into writing or journalism, hardly read books. If they ever would, it woul...

I had suggested Deepika and Chris Mooney Singh to host a book show on the internet: either as a podcast or a webcast. But now the idea has t...

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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