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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

52 films to light up your life

The most fun thing I did during my recent Mumbai trip was an informal little group conversation for Outlook magazine . Satish Padmanabhan g...

Angry captive goddesses in Madhureeta Anand's Kajarya

[ From my Mint Lounge column ] I haven’t watched Pan Nalin's Angry Indian Goddesses yet, but the other day I caught a remarkable, under...

Updates, photos: discussing Hrishi-da in Kolkata and Mumbai

For anyone interested, here are a couple of updates about recent events involving the Hrishikesh Mukherjee book . (I realised I have been pu...