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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 ...

(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...

Spreading the word about these sweet and currently VERY vulnerable puppies - they are around a month and a half old now - in Golf View Apart...

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  – ...