Like having a bisi-bele-baath in Paris
Off the beaten track. Not the way most murder mysteries travel in and out of violence. Well, as Arjun Iyer, the protagonist of this novel might have chosen to express, the book is like having a bisi-bele-baath in Paris. His deeply loyal but irascible, devil-may-care Inspector Munuswamy might pick up some other custom-made analogy or...
On buying books
Buying books makes me happy and reading them makes me happier. There was a time when each visit to the bazaar and later to some mall meant we came back with a few new books every time. I completely agree with Mary Ann Shaffer from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she...
Curfew is never over
Curfew is never over Review of ‘The tree with a thousand apples’ by Sanchit Gupta Who would contest the idea of the ‘beautiful but tormented valley of Kashmir’ not being a part of India? But when Safeena, one of the prime characters in the book talks ‘about the people’ and asks if ‘the land...
My Clingy Experience
To cling or not to cling was never a choice She did it all the time in action and voice ‘I’ll go with you’ or ‘We’ll do this together’ Even in hot, horrid, and sultry weather Even when I was in my own thoughts far away She wanted me near her each moment every day...
Emotional subtext of a film. Review of ‘Decoding Bollywood’
Nandita Das believes that ‘actors are perceived to be much larger than they really are. But direction is something that is far more challenging and fulfilling.’ So it is only right to say that a director in a film is the emotional subtext of whatever it is that viewers finally see on the screen. The...
Raindrops on paper
‘Another wayward white strand into the bin,’ he muttered, as he stretched his right hand to throw in the bin whatever it was that he held between his index finger and thumb. I was sitting right behind him and could see and hear what Param was doing. We shared the same room in the hostel....
