In a couple of hours from now, the National Novel Writing Month or the NaNoWriMo will begin in India. For a whole..
Pablo Neruda , that famed poet of love, has a lesser known collection titled ‘Ode to Common Things’. Here, he takes commonplace..
Literature today presents itself as that elusive, satisfying, cool profession. “You’re an author? That’s cool.” “I want to do something creative, like..
Think of Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House as a travelling theatre and a mobile culture library, situated primarily in the Macdougal-Sullivan Gardens..
I was vacationing with two of my brothers last week, corporate bigwigs who sashay down the airports every month, eat meals at..
Yet another July 31 is here and my social media is filled, cheerfully, in reverence to the boy who lived, to the..
Some books are known more by their quotes, snippets of awesome that become bigger than the author and the source, and find..
There is something, not quite serendipity, about reading a book of contemporary relevance, with jingoistic headlines spamming my background, the noise of..
Sometime last year, I started painting again. Seeing my art teacher in his element, oblivious to all distraction, I wrote a short..
Let one thing be known; most contemporary Indian fiction (in English) is a waste of paper. It is written in ‘simple’ English,..