Jabberwock

A sequel to the previous post . Here is a listing + tentative ranking of the John Dickson Carr novels I have read so far (around 10 of these...

For those of you who know and like Rian Johnson’s work – the Knives Out series, his direction of some major Breaking Bad episodes, etc  – ...

Super experience at IIC Delhi watching Ritwik Ghatak’s Subarnarekha in a really high-quality print. Subarnarekha , which I watched twice in...

A couple of photos I had taken of the campus dogs at OP Jindal Global University during my teaching stint there in 2022-23. One of the first...

(I wrote last month about my harrowing Diwali-week search for my lost building dog. Couldn’t resist letting off some steam by writing an Ec...

“ Mujhe behen ka pyaar nahin chahiye, mujhe aurat ka pyaar chahiye ” - Dev Anand to Suchitra Sen in Bambai ka Babu . The timeless lament of...

Two dog-related updates: 1) A big shout-out to Jagjit Singh and Stray Talk India for their thoughtfulness in converting thousands of paint...

Two stony women in Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film Bugonia . (Emma + Alicia Silver) Stone. Hadn't been to a hall to watch a film in a few we...

At a world-cinema-themed quiz conducted last month by whysoQrious ( Adittya Nath Mubaiyi and Mudita Chauhan-Mubayi ) at Depot48, Greater Kai...

Ritwik Ghatak’s birth centenary is this month. Last week a few dozen of us had a wide-ranging Zoom discussion about him, and about my friend...

Some of the loot I have accumulated in the past few weeks – most (not all) from Golden Age Crime Fiction, and most of these yet unread. Over...

(Did this little tribute to Asrani for Frontline magazine. Didn’t get to revisit some films that I would have liked to, but the Koshish mem...

Pandey update (a sequel to the previous post ): he is back. And I am nearly as exhausted as he must be – hence, staccato-ish post: He had ma...

An occasional side-benefit of being a professional cynic is that one is very rarely surprised or shocked by bad things. This year’s Diwali “...