Jabberwock

(from my Economic Times column) --------- Come Oscar season, those of us who aren’t too interested in the competitive debates – which film w...

A few days ago I attended a stimulating discussion about Irawati Karve and her work — it was centred on the new book Iru , coauthored by Ka...

( Wrote this for my ET column ) ------------------ Among my most satisfying viewing experiences of last year was a film I should have watche...

( Wrote this piece about Shuchi Talati’s excellent new film for Economic Times ) ------------------- Often, our expectations for a film are ...

A classic locked-room mystery that I enjoyed very much: Akimitsu Takagi’s The Noh Mask Murder , originally published in 1949 and just transl...

(Wrote this tribute for Economic Times – drawing partly on a nice conversation I had with Mr Benegal in Calcutta in 2013) --------------- In...

This conversation – with Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, author of one of the most acclaimed novels of the year, Chronicle of an Hour and a Half ...

(my latest Economic Times column) ---------------------- With 20 minutes left in the new film His Three Daughters – a superbly performed ch...

(Wrote this personal essay around a new book for Mint Lounge) ----------------- On hearing about the recent death of media magnate Nari Hira...

My online film group is conducting a Zoom discussion around political/paranoia thrillers on the evening of Friday, Oct 4. Please mark the da...

The photos here are of author Rahul Bhatia, human-rights activist Usha Ramanathan, and Nisar Ahmad (tireless striver for justice after losin...

This blog turned 20 years old a couple of weeks ago. (* Cliche alert * Very strange to think about this - it feels like yesterday that I sta...

(My latest Economic Times column. It also mentions the bulky new anthology The Swinging Seventies – co-edited by Nirupama Kotru and Shantanu...

This essay I wrote for an Outlook magazine special is a condensed version of many discussions I have had over the years about the "art-...