Ever since the Ayodhya verdict of Sept 30 was announced, I wanted to respond to it in my own way. Then I thought: what would Kafka make of i...

I should have written this post at least two weeks ago but due to my preparations for Germany, I could not find the time to write about an e...

I was in Germany when Mario Vargas Llosa was announced as this year's winner of Nobel Prize for Literature. Among the Latin American wri...

After the recent revelation of “spot-fixing” in the Pakistani cricket team, the question that was being debated on Indian TV channels was th...

Started this new blog today: Reading Orwell in Singapore . Reading Orwell in Singapore is where I will keep posting my thoughts that will be...

Where do you find your characters? What inspires you to write? People are so darn interesting and complex and strange; everyone has a story ...

The steamy short stories anthology 'Love and Lust in Singapore' was launched yesterday @Earshot Cafe at the Arts House. Out of the t...

Dabangg is an illustration of how Bollywood processes the filth, crime and corruption of India’s heartland into celluloid masti, and probab...

Today I received copies of both Love and Lust in Singapore and Best of Southeast Asian Erotica (Monsoon Books)-- each volume has one of my...

Delhi-based writer Abdullah Khan has penned this interesting piece (advice actually), Such a long journey , on the importance of finding a l...

Here is an interesting interview on the impact of Twilight type lit on the brains of Young Adults (How 'Twilight,' other dark fictio...

From The Independent : Eighteen-year-old Abha, the wife of Gandhi's grandnephew Kanu Gandhi, rejoined Gandhi's entourage in the run-...

I recently met Julia, a young Chinese girl, at a dinner party in Singapore. Julia told me that she had an Indian boyfriend and that she had ...

Here is some great advice for writers (I guess for all types of writers) who have confidence issues ( HOW SUCCESSFUL WRITERS KEEP UP THEIR C...

Director Glen Goei’s Asian adaptation of French classical farce Boeing-Boeing (originally written by French playwright Marc Camoletti) has ...

There is a pram in the hallway! That prospect might scare many writers. Naipaul wanted children but never had one. Once he said, for a write...

After landing in Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, I remembered Bangkok’s old airport that I had once transited through. Compared to Suvarnabh...

Chris Nolan’s Inception could well have been written by Argentinean short story writer and poet Borges, with inputs from Freud and Jung. Fo...

[This is the first part of my Thailand travel notes] A trip to Phuket and Bangkok was waiting to happen. I’ve been living in the South East ...

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 ...