We all try to make sense of the world in our own ways. We try to understand the world through the information that we receive from our newsp...

Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. After leaving the Pakistan Air Force Academy to pursue a career in journalism, he worked for New...

Looking at the leaked secret Danish document, Copenhagen seems more about money (carbon markets) than about climate change By Zafar Anjum I ...

Indian thriller writer Mukul Deva’s first two novels, Lashkar and Salim Must Die, are bestsellers in India. His third novel, Blowback, is re...

Cormac McCarthy, the author of The Road and No Country for Old Men , on the human race's future, life and writing in general: If you th...

Sofaman is a collaboration between Singapore’s The Necessary Stage and The KnAM Theatre from Russia. This intercultural, multilingsofaman_s...

Journalism today is under attack everywhere, both in physical and ethical senses. Newspapers are dying in the developed countries. The inter...

The Singapore Writers Festival 2009 came to a close on Sunday (1 Nov). Between the opening (23 Oct) and closing of the festival, scores of w...

It can be argued that Southeast Asian Writing in English has not achieved as much attention as African Writing in English or Indian Writing ...

Before we get to talk about Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), let’s have a quick quiz. Who, among the three infamous dictator...

The Deer Hunter , a 1978 war drama co-written and directed by Michael Cimino, is not your typical Vietnam war film. It's not your Apocal...

I recently published a review of Daniyal Mueenuddin's collection of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders , at Writersconnect.org...

I met the Scottish novelist and writer Suhayl Saadi (he was born in Yorkshire in 1961 of Afghan-Pakistani parents, and grew up in Glasgow, b...

From Murders most foul (Frontline) Internationally, studies have shown that abuse of the human rights of terror suspects increases terroris...

In Philip Roth's The Anatomy Lesson (a 1983 novel, the third one from Roth to feature Nathan Zuckerman as the main character), writer N...

If talks between Hollywood studios and YouTube don’t break down, film buffs would have less reason to make a trip to the pirated video selle...

What gets your goat? In my case, it's many things but goats. I keep reading about goats, specially when I read stories to my daughter be...

Visiting Professor Amitava Kumar's blog is always a good trip--it results in my coming back with some new information, novel insights. ...

[From Kitaab.org] Among the bunch of famous Indian novelists and writers, Richard Crasta’s name might not be as widely recognized as that of...

Professor Amartya Sen says that it is good to have debates and discussions and it is good to argue with others on topics of importance. I d...