Seene mein jalan aankhon mein tufaan saa kyon hain? is shahar mein har shakhs pareshaan saa kyon hain? These immortal lines, from the Hi...

Last night while I was watching Alexander Payne's The Descendents (2011) in Cathay Orchard, I was thinking: why can't filmmakers in...

"I think like a genius,I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child," thus begins Nabokov's Strong Opinions ....

In my last post, I wrote about my friend Fang Yih, and in that post I had mentioned him as Pynchonian. When he learned of this description o...

One of my favorite reads this year has been Hemingway's A Moveable Feast . This book has been on my work desk for several weeks now and ...

(Warning: Content not suitable for minors) Perhaps I had mentioned Roberto Bolano's book The Insufferable Gaucho in one of my previou...

I got the news of Dev Anand Saheb's passing away on Facebook yesterday. I saw a friend's status on FB and it contained that dreadful...

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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...