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- Book Review: First Among Sequels
Like many parties in the world, the Jasper Fforde series of novels that centre around Thursday Next is yet another...
- Book Review: The Amnesiac - The Art of Forgetting
Writers and philosophers often ruminate on memory and the art of remembering - perhaps because in so many cases the...
- A Veiled Insult
Serendipity is a word that we apply to happy, unexpected but ultimately personally satisfying discoveries; things like finding that perfect...
- Torture Relay - Why Tibet Matters
It's been almost fifty years since the 1959 invasion of Tibet by China, an act of aggression which merely formalized...
- Musings From a Departure Lounge
So I'm sitting here at Singapore's glossy Changi airport, sipping a glass of champagne and wondering how on earth I’m...
- Burma - A Crumbling Palace of Glass
Things are stirring in Burma.I've been following news reports of the protest marches that have been ongoing for...
- Book Review: What Happens After Dark?
Children of the night; dark alleyways. Lives small and limited, but simultaneously interconnected and expansive. Coincidence, destiny, chance encounters, randomness....
- Book Review: The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al Aswany - Cairo Claustrophobia
It's funny, isn't it, how travelling to a place always somehow makes something written that much more real and identifiable?...
- Book Review: A Tale of Love and Darkness
Buying novels at an airport can either prove to be serendipitous or they can be terrible finds. Either you end...
- Movie Review: Eklavya - Reinforcing Orientalist Stereotypes
I'll confess - I knew very little about Eklavya before I went to see it. I didn't know much about...
- Shilpa in Celebrity Big Brother - Colour Me Brown
You can always gauge what's big news in the UK by the contents of the gamut of free evening papers...
- Sexing Up the Sati Savitri and Other Holy Heroes of Indian Lore
I found this story on the Wall Street Journal this afternoon while at work. Normally, I'm not one to...
- Movie Review: Kabul Express
War zones are usually as commonly seen in cinema as in real life. Directors & scriptwriters seem to enjoy placing...
- Movie Review: Dor - Sensitive Intertextuality
[Warning: This piece contains plot spoilers] There is a school of thought that believes that the true measure of whether a...
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Orhan and His Istanbul
The Swedish Academy announced today that it had awarded the 10 million Swedish kroner Nobel Prize for Literature to controversial...
- I Wish I Could Quit You, Blog!
I got an email alert today, notifying me that I'd been tagged by my fellow Bollywood blogger, Filmiholic (who's...
- The Legacy of Haruki Murakami
It was probably during the winter of 2004 that I first discovered Murakami. You could really blame it on an old...
- Music Review: Re-Covers, Yat-Kha
These days, often the easiest way to figure out a person is to grab a quick look at their playlists...
- Book Review: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco - Murdering Mickey Mouse
In keeping with my own blogging tradition, I prefer to keep my post titles as obscure and opaque as possible....
- I Dreamt of Delhi Last Night
But the Delhi I dreamt of last night wasn't the Delhi of long, unbelievably hot summers. It wasn't the Delhi...
- Monsoons in India
You know, the other night when it was raining in Delhi, I couldn't help but sit up and look out...
- Bollywood in London
Every so often (i.e. when I'm keen to watch a Hindi movie on the big screen) or when there's a...
- The Great Indian Blog Ban - Signs of Hope
The Indian government’s decision to block several blogs and websites earlier this week has been met, across cyberspace, with outrage...
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