Arundhati Roy has finally moved her pen into the realm of fiction...for the second time. Outlook reports that The Briefing, her first work ...

So says novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri . The context of his saying this is Bollywood and the kind of films it produces. I quote from a r...

What happens when both husband and wife become novelists? You might say this is nothing new. You might even give some examples to prove your...

Prof Gopichand Narang on Urdu's legacy: I write in three languages, Urdu, Hindi and English, but I identify most with Urdu. It is in my ...

In the third week of the Short+Sweet Singapore play festival , ten plays of varying quality were staged at NAFA’s Studio Theatre. In less th...

Apologies again, I have been away, travelling. You might have already guessed that seeing my two earlier posts: photos and a video. If you d...

Sometimes a single sentence can convey a truckload of meaning: "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is wh...

Amitav Ghosh on his new novel, The Sea of Poppies ('The Ghazipur And Patna Opium Factories Together Produced The Wealth Of Britain'...

Some have just a little brush with celebrities and they think they have lived their life's worth. But some are fortunate enough to have ...

Last night I got a call from BBC Radio to participate in a radio programme (World Have Your Say) on terrorism. The question for the dabate w...

I have been absent from my blog for a while now. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, it is said. Is it true in the case of blogging? Anyway...

Forgot to mention this. Not long ago, fellow blogger Monideepa sent me this piece on IWE, which appeared in a Mumbai publication. Along wit...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the first Pakistani film to be released in India, Khuda Ke Liye . According to the reports, the film has been...

Singapore is geographically a very small state but it carries a significance in the world that far outweighs its geography. Singapore is lik...

A rising India is the flavour of the century but unfortunately all parts of India are not equally shining. Bihar is one such place—a provinc...

A little news to break. I have started a new blog on wordpress. It is called Techlightenment . I did not choose the name. The credit goes to...

I came across this brilliant article in the NYT Why Bother? on climate change and what we can do about it. I think the way the climate is c...

In my office, I ofter discuss Naipaul with one of our editors. He also likes Naipaul's works and we agree that there are very few writer...