The cover of 'Love and Lust in Singapore', which features one of my short stories, is out. It looks fabulous. The book should be in ...

In a brief essay on India, Aravind Adiga gets into the heart of the matter: ... The 300 million or so Indians living in acute poverty are be...

When I was asked to review Rajat Das’ debut novel ( Paper Boat , Flame of the Forest) I approached the offer with skepticism. Why? I had lit...

I was reading some articles on John Le Carre when I came across this piece in The Guardian by Robert McCrum: Dear Mr Orwell, we regret to sa...

Today I stumbled upon Ashok Banker's blog (one of my favorite blogs) and was shocked to read one of his blog entries: Falling Down: A Go...

I may sound like an alarmist but these days I see more and more deadly headlines. No, I am not talking about the regular deaths in occupied ...

Last Sunday I was so bored I decided to watch a movie in a proper theatre. Between Shrek 4 and some other kiddish or Chinese movies running ...

Now that the Washington Post company has put its loss-making weekly The Newsweek on the chopping block (any buyers?), I am uncannily remin...

The Man Asian Literary Prize today announced a new format, opening it to all novels by Asian writers published in English each year. The cas...

George Orwell’s two seminal works of fiction, Animal Farm and 1984 , were written in a tumultuous time. Animal Farm , published in 1945, wa...

From my official tech blog: Last week, we ran an IDG story about Apple’s iPads selling well in Asia ahead of the official launch. The report...

Read this (from a Noam Chomsky interview) and think for a moment: There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and pri...

I had difficulty sleeping the night I read this account of Arundhati Roy's meeting with the Naxals/Maoists in the forests of Dandakaran...

I’ve not seen all the plays that Director Alvin Tan and Playwright Haresh Sharma have done together in the last 20 years but amongst the one...

When news broke that India’s pre-eminent painter M F Hussain has traded his Indian passport for a Qatari one, many in India got a shock. On ...

Three Singapore-based avid short story writers, Femke Tewari, Caz Goodwin and Joye Hoe, are putting together a collection of short stories b...

A few years ago, there was a Bollywood film song that became a rage in India. “Lose control”—that’s what it urged the country’s youth to do....

The ongoing protests by Mumbai’s Shiva Sena against the Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his film “My Name is Khan” once again underlines...

Indian thriller-writer Mukul Deva analyses global terrorism in his no holds barred, hard-hitting tetralogy with unflinching precision A for...

Anu Garg of A.Word.A.Day writes a very relevant note today: The word religion derives from Latin ligare (to tie or to bind, as in 'ligam...