"All my life I have had to think about ways of looking and how they alter the configuration of the world." With this prologue, Nai...

In Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), there is a very interesting scene (funny or serious? You decide) with a Spanish ...

Friday last week I was at Carrefour and in its book section there was this sale of books (I guess the same remainders that has got publisher...

In some recent Hollywood films, the good guys and the bad guys come from the same institutions, part of the US military or intelligence est...

In its November-December 2010 newsletter, INSTEP , the National Arts Council (Singapore) has profiled two of the 11 literary artists (whose ...

First thing, right up top, you should know about this post, before you read any further, is that I did not attend this year's Jaipur Lit...

Recently, Dileep Cherian of Manta Ray Comics sent me a link to review 'Hush' - the debut release of Manta Ray, an independent publis...

We like ambition in people. In India, children at a very young age are often asked by doting relatives what they want to become when they gr...

The least exciting part of the Zee Cine Awards 2011 was the show itself (seats were uncomfortable, and with 5000 people, most were so far aw...

For the Indian Diaspora, sometimes Bollywood is the only answer to their spiritual emptiness. In the persona of the film stars, like Crusoe...

Happy New Year to all my friends! From some time, I have decided to blog less but blog well. The basic purpose of sharing interesting readin...

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...