A candid report from the tenth India Se Literary Salon 2011 If anyone had any doubt about Shobha De’s popularity in Singapore, India Se’s...

Bhog and Other Stories By Ankur Betageri Pilli Books, Bangaluru, 2010 Hardback, 108 pp., Rs. 260 In Ankur Betageri’s debut collection o...

Updike's four studies He said he had four studies in his house so we can imagine him writing a poem in one of his studies before break...

This is from my CIO Asia technology blog: Women are seeking a world beyond pink laptops. They want a larger role to play in shaping the wo...

"You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist. You can't have too much nous. It gets in the way, somehow," Amis says in a...

Doctors are usually mild-mannered people. They are service providers. They do their job and mind their business. Controversy is something th...

Written by Stella Koon and directed by Glen Goei, Emily of Emerald Hill is one of those plays that stays with you long after you have left ...

"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...