Though it was published last year in December, I recently spotted this Soumya Bhattacharya (writer and editor of HT, Mumbai) interview in Gr...

Aravind Adiga on his growing up years in Mangalore ( The Independent ): ... my grandfather, an Indian nationalist, disdained to speak Englis...

My daughter is not well and I am holed up at home—taking care of her. She is recuperating and I have put her on medicine and on strong dosag...

Gouri Dange (Outlook) on Chandrahas Choudhury's Arzee The Dwarf : From the first page, this is a triumph of storytelling in what Chandra...

The Delhi high court ruling against the IPC 377 sent a wave of jubilation in India 's homosexual community. Suddenly the criminal stigma...

My friend Nishant, a Delhi-based journalist and social worker, has sent me a strong, well-argued rejoinder to my post on Arundhati Roy ( Roy...

My interview @ chillibreeze . I discuss the future of publishing in Asia Excerpts: The popularity of e-books will increase with the adoption...

“We should respect differing opinions up to certain point, and then it's time for the wise to blow the whistle. Sir, not only do I diffe...

Book Review Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga Picador, 2009 When I finished reading the last story from Aravind Adiga’s Between th...

Early eighties. In a pre-liberalization India, the angry young man image of Amitabh Bachchan rules the imagination of millions—fighting his ...

After 17 years of probe, the Babri Masjid demolition report has been finally submitted by the Liberhan Commission . The contents of the repo...

After the brouhaha over the Iran elections, the world media has been focused on the sudden death of Michael Jackson at the age of 50. Mahmou...

In Satyajit Ray's brilliant film, Pratidwandi (The Adversary), Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee), a young man who idolizes Che Guevara, ...

From my MIS Asia blog: If the Iraq war was about blogging (remember the Baghdad blogger?), the ongoing post-election protests in Iran are ab...

Shama Zaidi pays her tribute to late Habib Tanvir: Like many of his generation of students of AMU, Habib was influenced by leftist politics ...

Imagine for a moment. You are a hotshot editor of India’s biggest news magazine. You write fabulous journalistic stories. Captains of indust...

Everyone wants to write that ‘hit’ Hindi film. But do you have it in you? And what is required of you to make it in Bollywood as a scriptwri...

A thought: "When everybody wants to fight there's nothing to fight for. Everybody wants to fight his own little war, everybody is a...

Post-inauguration at the Indian Writers’ Festival on Friday evening, everybody wanted to have a few moments with Loveleen Tandon (the ‘lovel...