By Unknown Sunday, January 31, 2016 Jaipur and Kolkata with Sharmila Tagore, the Akhtars and others - photos, updates As mentioned earlier, I have been putting up lit-fest reports on Facebook rather than on the blog (those are public posts, I think you can s...
By Unknown Wednesday, January 27, 2016 childhood Forbes columns Little grown-ups, and other misfits [ Did this for my Forbes Life books column – around the time I was part of the jury for the children’s fiction prize at the Goodbooks Awards...
By Unknown Wednesday, January 20, 2016 In Memoriam: The Ziegfeld Theater, 1969-2016 Last week the Siren was in Midtown, meeting a friend for drinks, and she passed the Ziegfeld Theater, Manhattan’s most glorious movie venue....
By Unknown Saturday, January 16, 2016 Children's book awards: Dead as a Dodo and other winners The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Awards for children’s books were announced yesterday at the Lit for Life festival in Chennai. Manjula Padman...
By Unknown Friday, January 15, 2016 Ghosts and projections, in Wazir and other films [ My latest Mint Lounge film column ] If you haven’t watched Bejoy Nambiar’s Wazir yet and intend to, you may want to skip this column for ...
By Unknown Thursday, January 14, 2016 in memoriam movies in depth Truly, Madly, Deeply; Alan Rickman; and Loss The Siren starts by admitting that she rented Truly, Madly, Deeply some twenty-odd years ago only because she had a raging crush on the lat...
By Unknown 10:26 AM The Private Life of Mrs Sharma, a house-lizard on vacation [ Did a version of this review - about one of the most well-observed novels I have read in recent months - for Mint Lounge ] Reading Ratika ...
By Unknown Sunday, January 10, 2016 Lit-fests: an evening in Kolkata (and Jaipur) After a relatively placid three or four months, I have been back to spending a great deal of time on hospital duty, and generally being on ...
By Unknown Friday, January 1, 2016 The naayak as gaayak - on stars who sang for themselves [ From my Mint Lounge column ] Reading movie magazines as a child, it seemed to me that whenever a Hindi-film actor was asked about his or h...