Monday, April 30, 2012

Want to be a Bollywood scriptwriter? Here is your opportunity

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I was thrilled when I heard a few days back that Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui (I had loved their first film, Peepli Live) had writte...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

The doctor and the snake charmer

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These days my mother is here and she tells us a story when she is in the mood. One day we were talking about the common people, the l...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The arrested development of Julian Assange

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Cyberspace's most famous activist, Julian Assange, has been under house arrest for more than a year now. But he is not keeping quiet. ...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Five days in San Francisco

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When I reached the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on 27 February after an 18 hour-long journey, I was struck by its relative sim...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Urdu poet Shaharyar passes away

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Seene mein jalan aankhon mein tufaan saa kyon hain? is shahar mein har shakhs pareshaan saa kyon hain? These immortal lines, from the Hi...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Why can't Singapore filmmakers make The Descendents?

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Last night while I was watching Alexander Payne's The Descendents (2011) in Cathay Orchard, I was thinking: why can't filmmakers in...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Nabokov Interviews

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"I think like a genius,I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child," thus begins Nabokov's Strong Opinions ....
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Faulkner and the purity of exactitude

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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...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

A Moveable Feast

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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 ...
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Monday, December 05, 2011

And after that there is only travel...

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

Dev Anand

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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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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The terror of being a poor Muslim in India

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Jimmy the terrorist by Omair Ahmad Hamish Hamilton, 2010; Rs. 350 Reviewed by Zafar Anjum Novelist Omair Ahmad has chosen a misleading...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Paris on my mind

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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...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Dr. Susan Lim's search for justice

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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...

What's wrong with Ra.One?

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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...
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