What lessons can we draw from Radiagate in India and WikiLeaks’ Cablegate? While I was away in rural India, disconnected from the Interne...

As the KLM Airlines’ Boeing 737 descended through a bank of white cumulus approaching the Tegel airport in Berlin, the outskirts of a sprawl...

Though corruption in media is as old as media itself, several new Bollywood films are hauling the media over coals for their fast disappeari...

Two new athologies, Crime Scene: Singapore - The best of Singapore crime fiction , and Best of Southeast Asian Erotica , both lovingly edite...

In her review of the anthology, Love and Lust in Singapore , in the Her World magazine, Niki Bruce observes: The overall quality of the st...

This travel story of mine appeared in the China Daily recently: Thailand's troubled politics may have put a damper on tourism, but the b...

Read here the concluding part of my short story, Kafka in Ayodhya. (Published in The Star magazine, dated 29 October 2010)

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 ...