Jabberwock

Scenes from a Bombay trip earlier this month. Of course I did my usual walking around south Bombay (always a bracing and therapeutic experie...

At the Stray Buddy office last week, helping to put together dog-collars and QR tags in preparation for what will be another prolonged fire...

Updating the blog with a few posts that I had put on social media (mainly Instagram) over the past couple of months. For the benefit of the ...

(For the Sunday Times of India, I wrote a little nostalgia piece about Star Trek: The Original Series - this week marks the 60th anniversary...

My feelings about Katharine Hepburn shifted a bit over the decades, from adolescent hero-worship to something more cautious (among other thi...

Here's something I should have remembered to post on August 4. Earlier this year I bought an Everyman’s Library edition of a Ray Bradbur...

It was interesting to see a poster for Amit Rai’s new film Ohh My Dog on a wall just across the road from my flat, near the Malviya Nagar m...

As a big James Cagney fan, I can’t believe it took me so long to get around to One, Two, Three – a crazy, breathless political comedy that ...

(from my Economic Times column. Don't miss my profile illustration, further down in the post  – I'm quite chuffed with it) --------...

(Wrote a version of this review for The Hindu's Sunday paper) ---------------------------------------- A book reviewer – or a film revie...

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...