Jimmy the terrorist by Omair Ahmad Hamish Hamilton, 2010; Rs. 350 Reviewed by Zafar Anjum Novelist Omair Ahmad has chosen a misleading...

For the last few weeks, Paris has been on my mind. It all started with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris . I had seen the movie on a pla...

In recent months, well-known Singapore surgeon Dr. Susan Lim has received enough media attention here and abroad in the wake of her run-in w...

Contrary to what the title of this post implies, there are many things right with Ra.One. It is an ambitious film, in terms of scale and bud...

If you have been following the news, you would get the impression that all of Bangkok has been flooded. Cars and apartment buildings are sub...

This Thursday (6 October) morning, I was on the bus to my office. I was surfing through the books section of The Guardian on my iPhone when ...

It is curtains for Borders in Singapore. The only functional Borders outlet at Parkway Parade closed its door on Monday. For good. Last ...

This post is not about Dibakar Banerjee's upcoming film Shanghai, which is being shot in Kolkata. Though I must say, I am looking forwar...

We are very quick to pronounce our judgments on works of art: a book, a movie, a picture. I don't like this book. I love that movie. And...

More important than wholesale and retail corruption is the third dimension of corruption—moral corruption—that has to be checked. Corruptio...

Last month, Amazon.com announced that for the first time in history, the sales of ebooks have surpassed the sales of printed copies of books...

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...