What I Think About When They Say Donald Trump Cannot Possibly Become President

... From The Past Is Myself, the memoir of an Englishwoman named Christabel Bielenberg. In the early 1930s she fell in love with a German l...

On Devashish Makhija’s Taandav (and other dancing men)

[ My latest Mint Lounge column ] In Devashish Makhija’s brilliant new short film Taandav , a constable named Tambe (Manoj Bajpayee) points a...

The life of the mind: writers on screen, writers in caves

[ My latest Mint Lounge column ] The actor Rajesh Vivek , who died last month, was probably best known to contemporary audiences as the hirs...