This morning when I reached my office and checked the news, I was shocked to learn that comedian Jaspal Bhatti had died in a car accide...

Muslims suffer from the problem of “image deficit.” They must do something about it before it is too late. By Zafar Anjum George ...

Those who have been in touch with me know that I have been working on several projects for the last two, three years--a novel, a collect...

The Aryavarta Chronicles, Book 1: GOVINDA, by Krishna Udayasankar, New Delhi : Hachette India , 472 pp, paperback. $25.   I rememb...

Julian Assange does a Chen Guangcheng in London By Zafar Anjum Remember the blind Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangch...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...