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...

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...

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...

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....

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...