Jabberwock

You might think that as a non-believer I’d be somewhat irritated by GK Chesterton’s Father Brown stories – or put off by the little priest-d...

I have got back to reading John Dickson Carr mysteries from what is generally regarded his peak phase (mid-1930s to mid-40s) – a few of thes...

[Wrote a version of this piece for Mint Lounge, as part of a tribute to Sholay on its 50th anniversary. Have written about the film before, ...

So noir yet so far: my friend Tipu Purkayastha and I will be in conversation with the writer and film scholar Imogen Sara Smith on July 27 ...

Putting up a few short posts about books I have enjoyed in the past year, which I have mentioned elsewhere but not here. One of them is Rud...

From earlier this month… my dear friend (and fabulous writer and poet and fellow mythology buff and cinephile and all-round inspiration) Kar...

I re-watched Silence of the Lambs a few weeks ago and had a few thoughts about it – including a memory-trigger of my strangely bifurcated f...

[Just a casual little post, of the sort I haven’t been putting here in a long time – these updates end up going on Instagram, or less freque...

[From my Economic Times column] --------------- An important trope of the Hindi cinema I cherished as a child – the action-oriented, male-ce...

[ Wrote this piece for a special, Raj Kapoor-themed issue of Frontline magazine ] ----------------- This is something every serious cineaste...

[From my Economic Times column] Perhaps because I re-watched Woody Allen’s Manhattan recently – with its hysterical and bittersweet love-le...

[Worked on an interview-profile after a long time – this one for Open magazine, about an exhibition of paintings by the 25-year-old Varad Ba...