Cricket, aspiration and a crisis of masculinity: Aravind Adiga on his new novel

[Did this interview for Scroll ] Introduction: Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize-winning The White Tiger was among the first Indian-English nov...

The Young One (1960)

I've been watching quite a bit of Luis Buñuel recently and just finished watching The Young One (1960). Without giving too much away a ...

Book Review: Bigger than Ben-HurThe Book, its Adaptations, & their Audiences

Bigger than Ben-Hur : The Book, its Adaptations, & their Audiences Edited by Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir Syracuse University Press...

Dissenting Diagnosis, a new book about devious doctors and malpractices in healthcare

[ Did this for Scroll . More soon on other medical books ] When you spend a lot of time in hospitals as a caregiver, you can go through many...

Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde on Netflix: thoughts on the Sacred Games TV series

[ Vikram Chandra’s Mumbai-underworld epic Sacred Games is being adapted into a Netflix series. Did this speculative piece for Mint Lounge ]...

The Shadow of Nazareth (1913)

Shadow of Nazareth is unusual amongst Jesus films because it sits, somewhat awkwardly between films that are primarily about Jesus, and tho...

How to stop worrying and film the Bomb

[ a slightly extended version of my Mint Lounge column, which app ears i n print on August 6 /Hiroshima Day ] -------------------------- H...

Slaves of Babylon (1953)

Despite having been the subject of some of the very earliest Bible films, the various stories from the Book of Daniel rather fell from favou...

On Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India, and other books about cultural heritage

[ From my Forbes Life column ] As a film buff, I am often appalled by how much neglect or apathy there is when it comes to India’s cinemat...

The Canon in the Early Sound Era

This is the latest in a series of posts about the relationship between the Bible, the idea of canonicity and film. The start of the sound e...