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"It seems very pretty," she said, "but it's rather hard to understand."

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Thursday, January 29, 2026

Short review: I Met a Man Who Wasn't There

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Arunava Sinha celebrated his 100th book as a translator recently, a staggering achievement even for someone whose work ethic many of us hav...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Calcutta photos: the Alipore Jail, the lake, friends, and an old dog

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I made a very brief trip to Calcutta, mainly to attend my friend Shamya’s sessions around the Ritwik Ghatak book at the Kolkata Literary Me...
Friday, January 23, 2026

At Jantar Mantar, for the dogs

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(From my occasional sharing of a few things I had only put on Instagram and/or FB earlier) Jantar Mantar was buzzing on the afternoon of Jan...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

In praise of Christianna Brand's Tour de Force

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Excursions in Golden Age crime fiction continue, and here is one of my favourite reads from the past couple of months: Christianna Brand’s ...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Thoughts on Ikkis (and on watching Dharmendra and Asrani together one last time)

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(My latest Economic Times column: only partly a review of Ikkis, more a reflection on how our relationships with onscreen personalities can ...
Monday, December 29, 2025

A coexistence mela at PVR Saket

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With a few members of our Stray Buddy family at the little “Coexistence Mela” organised at the PVR Anupam complex on Saturday. There was a w...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Kalamkaval (and the perks of being a leading man who doesn't age)

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I liked Jithin K Jose’s Kalamkaval a great deal (though it was a bit surprising to see that a couple of 5/6-year-old kids were in the hall ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Pupdate

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A follow-up to my earlier post about these pups in Saket , who need a good and caring home. It is getting very cold, they are in a hostile n...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Some love for Fredric Brown and The Dead Ringer (and travelling carnivals)

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In between all the intense crime literature I have been reading of late, a more laidback book that I loved was Fredric Brown’s 1948 novel Th...

Loved the third Knives Out film...

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Wake Up Dead Man is excellent. And not just because it contains explicit tributes to John Dickson Carr and the locked-room mystery (somewha...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Big-screen Sholay (and a fire scare)

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A surreal thing happened while watching Sholay (the new Film Heritage Foundation restoration) at PVR Select Citywalk on Friday night: as th...
Friday, December 12, 2025

William Brittain's short mystery stories

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Continuing my adventures with vintage crime fiction, and an enjoyable new find: the cosy short stories of William Brittain, who was a regula...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

Ritwik Ghatak, Unmechanical: photos from the Delhi events

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A few images from Shamya Dasgupta's Delhi trip to promote his big Ritwik Ghatak anthology .  Four Mayabazaaris and one Gulaabo gaadi. S...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

A hazy photo of a fondly remembered teacher

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There was much St Columba’s School nostalgia at the big book launch of Ajay Jain's school memoir Charlie’s Boys at India Habitat Centre...
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