Jabberwock

Most of my fiction reading in the past 3-4 months has been in the form of short stories, but I returned to a full-fledged crime novel (Golde...

Scenes from last week's day-trip to nearby Rataul, to visit the mango orchards (with a few friends who were more experienced in this sor...

(From my Economic Times column) ----------------------------- Reading a book about Alfred Hitchcock recently, I saw one of his quotable quot...

Guess who. (Fans of 1980s mainstream Hindi cinema * might * get it.)         See pic below for the answer…👇 I had a short but very pleasant...

(Did this short piece for Reader’s Digest, about the new Nemai Ghosh-Satyajit Ray exhibition. Some photos from my walkthrough last month are...

A couple of weeks ago I made the time to go to my (generally neglected) screening room in Panchshila Park for a few evenings, and watch some...

“All the good movies have been made.” “The world belongs to the young.”  A couple of nice meta-scenes between the 80-year-old Boris Karloff ...

At a hotel in Gurgaon yesterday, I had my most satisfying “celebrity” encounter ever – this was a meet-and-greet for Aloka the Peace Dog , o...

Pleased to see this book, a tribute to the director Awtar Krishna Kaul who died in 1974, aged just 35, shortly after completing his only fea...

(My Economic Times column – about a few good films I watched recently, and the possibly whimsical links I saw between them. As you can see f...

I had a nice time conducting the walkthrough for the (very elegant) Nemai Ghosh-Satyajit Ray colour-photo exhibition at DAG (formerly Delhi...

Another film I greatly enjoyed in a hall (late-night show, very few people around, just the right environment) is Ritwik Pareek’s Dug Dug , ...

Following a few months where I had spent much more of my time (and eye-strain time) on reading as opposed to watching, I ended up seeing qui...

(Wrote this review for Mint Lounge. A couple of my earlier essays about the contemporary Malayalam cinema are here and here ) -------------...