Jabberwock

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  – ...

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...