This column isn't about what I thought it would be about. Last week, I picked up a new anthology of Indian literat...
How does a screening of rare hip-hop documentaries from the '80s help sell more energy drinks? I was asking myself ...
Rape runs as a crimson tide through the narrative of Rahul Pandita's memoir of the exile of the Kashmiri Pandit com...
You know what is the worst part of hearing that someone you know has been visited by the Grim Reaper? No, not the p...
It would be easy to turn The Reluctant Fundamentalist into a messy crossover film. Its set between Pakistan and Ame...
Digital effects get a bad rap these days. The more CGI becomes associated with bombastic, hollow-at-the-core tent-p...
Last month, the good folks at The Attic organised a marvellous week of evening events under the rubric of a Baisakh...
I got home from work while it was still daylight out today. ...
Walking with the writer Tabish Khair in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, I suddenly point to a cluster of fl...
Q. My current boyfriend had this girlfriend with whom he was besotted,...
"“ Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.” "
Sidney and Beatrice Webb fought the good Socialist fight relentlessly and indefatigably. They founded the Fabian So...
Heteronormative men like to dole out compliments to straight women. It's the way the world likes to function. Ask a...
In his translator's afterword to Uday Prakash's The Walls of Delhi, Jason Grunebaum discusses the difficulty of dec...
'I was ecstatic they renamed French fries as Freedom Fries. Grown men and women in position of power in the U.S. go...
I met playwright-stand-up comedian-author Anubhav Pal at the Shillong CALM (Creative Arts, Literature and Music) Fe...
"Som, should I buy this haveli? What do you think, Somi?" Irritated, I ignored the voice, looking out of the opposi...
