Month: March 2014
Reading Ray
Talking about the stereotypical depiction of India in Western literature and films he writes, ?India remained a nebulous entity to the West; a vast amorphism that refused to take on a semblance of the familiar? The few films about India from the West only helped to strengthen this feeling? And once again, in novels too […]
Twenty Years On The Fringe – Incoherent Ramblings
Writers Praising Writers: 15 of the Best Compliments from One Author to Another
As the brash arc of youthful adulthood begins to wan. It?s like discovering yourself in a corridor you would have sworn you?d never been in before ? yet you know it.
Independent Films
Independence of independent films – REELS – LESS – TRAVELED? http://homegrown.co.in/reels-less-travelled-indian-indie-films-you-should-watch/? ?An intrepid monk speaks of existential euphemisms and internet puns in a single breath. An investment banker, on a self-taken sabbatical, comes to the city of Mumbai, only to fall for a photographer recluse and be persuaded by a Dhobi she earnestly befriends. The […]
Non fiction
??I?ve always been slightly short with people who say, ?You haven?t written anything again,? as if all the nonfiction I?ve written is not writing,? Arundhati Roy said.
“Even concubina…
Life, this endl…
About Bombay
About Bombay- We don’t belong here… The island city was reclaimed from the sea The Sea will take it back, one day. We are all passer bys migrants, drifters, dreamers, fortune seekers, time travelers, anchored for a while till we set sail again The map is constantly being redrawn yesterday it was an archipelago of […]
I shudder.
I shudder to think this man could be our future PM. Here’s what Ashis Nandy had to say when he interviewed Modi after the 2002 Gujarat pogrom:? “Modi, it gives me no pleasure to tell the readers, met virtually all the criteria that psychiatrists, psycho-analysts and psychologists had set up after years of empirical work […]