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Book Review: Aarushi by Avirook Sen
The Madeline McCann Kidnapping took place in Portugal around eight years ago and the then four year old remains untraced even now. A few months after Madeline disappeared, the Portuguese police...
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An Interview With A Wiccan, An Author And A Lawyer
Deepta Roy Chakraverti’s is a Wiccan, an author and a lawyer, all rolled into one. A few weeks ago, I had reviewed her book, “Bhangarh to Bedlam - Haunted Encounters”. Those who have read my review...
View ArticleA Very Short Story: Betrayal
‘Purohit, cheer up. Your job’s done and we’re celebrating.’ A brief hesitation and then Purohit smiled. It was a genuine smile which lit up his gaunt face, despite the large black bags under his eyes...
View ArticlePay Them More Not Less
Everything I hear someone crib about the salaries paid to our M.Ps or M.L.As or the perks given to them, such as subsidized canteen food, I feel like shouting that we should pay our politicians more...
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Learning Hindi With Chetan Bhagat
I’ve been trying to learn Hindi ever since my late teens. I learnt some Hindi at school, but a small dusty town down South is not the best place to learn the most widely spoken Indian language. As far...
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What’s Going On In The Maldives?
I’ve always been fascinated by the Maldives, a chain of twenty-six small islands in the Laccadive Sea. The Maldivians trace their ancestry to South India and Sri Lanka. Some of them are possibly...
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Book Review: Red Sorghum, by Mo Yan
Ever since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, I’ve been planning to read Red Sorghum, one of his most famous works set in the time of the Japanese occupation and the Second World War....
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Book Review: Making India Awesome, by Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat’s latest offering Making India Awesome is a work of non-fiction, a bunch of essays addressed to Indians who care and want to make a difference. Bhagat tells us that 80% of Indians don’t...
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Book Review: Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, which came out in the early 1950s, has been on my reading list for over a decade, but because Chaudhuri was literally, for me, an unknown...
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Book Review: Three by Krishna Udayasankar
Having reviewed Krishna Udayasankar’s Aryavarta Chronicles, a trilogy based on the Mahabharata, I was very keen to read Three, Udayasankar’s latest literary offering. I was not disappointed. Three is...
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Book Review: Magic in the Mountain, by Nimi Kurian
It’s a long while since I read a book essentially meant for children. A children’s book need not be about children, but Magic in the Mountain is, which would normally make it all the more unsuitable...
View ArticleShort Story: A Tale Of Two Speeches
My mom gave me an encouraging smile as I wriggled my leg under the table. I wasn’t nervous, not in the least. Rather, I felt infinitely superior to the lesser beings who were all around me, some of...
View ArticleShort Story: The Exit
‘Could you please give me another 30 mins?’ Radha asked her with exquisite politeness. Pratiksha frowned with annoyance, and muttered ‘okay’. As if she had a choice. ‘You have the forms I sent you,...
View ArticleShort Story: A Brief Encounter at the Lower Parel Peninsula Junction
Mumbai is notorious for its traffic jams and ever since I moved to this vibrant city six months ago, I’ve spent more time waiting at traffic signals than anywhere else outdoors. Today morning, on the...
View ArticleShort Story: WTF
‘wtf”, Ashok’s text message read and my heart sank.‘listen there are others like you. i was only trying to help them,’ I texted back. However, it was too late, because when I gathered the courage to...
View ArticleShort Story: 10 Most Influential Under 35
The television was a mite too loud, Sangeeta thought and she reached for the remote control, which was not within easy reach. Sachin saw her reach out and warned, ‘don’t change the channel.’‘I won’t....
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Book Review: Adi Sankara & Other Stories, by Susan Visvanathan
Three short stories by Susan Visvanathan. The first one a mango slice, the second a pineapple with a slice missing and the third a pine cone. The mango from which the mango slice comes must have been a...
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Book Review: No Strings Attached, by Sheila Kumar
Reading a Mills and Boon novel has been on my bucket list for the last twenty years or so, ever since I knew enough about books to be snooty about them. No, No Strings Attached has not been brought out...
View ArticleWho’s helping the Taliban?
The Taliban are fanatic Sunnis and one wouldn't expect Shia Iran to help them. There are reports that Iran is actually doing just that, but that's Breitbart news, which is not very credible. What is...
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Corrupt Zuma Survives
South African President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote in parliament yesterday. Everybody knows that Zuma is corrupt, yet he survives. He is even popular in SA. In that, he is very similar to...
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