Jabberwock

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

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...

(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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...