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the historical novel, an incomplete inquiry 5 Jan 2013 | 12:29 am
#1 The Game of Kings, Dorothy Dunnett I [finally!] read Bring Up The Bodies at the end of December, which put me in mind, as historical novels often do, of Dorothy Dunnett. One of the things I found ...
where are the greeks among you? 25 Dec 2011 | 12:15 am
Draw your lots and enter. It's been a small year in many ways. It's been a year of bylines and second dates, brief meetings with old friends and a slow accumulation of new ones. For the first time th...
the serrador express* rides again 13 Feb 2011 | 06:18 pm
Hi friends. I did some reading this week, much to my own surprise. They comprised three Mills and Boon novels, one of which is the first written by an Indian novelist. The other two are set in Russia ...
my no good very bad jaipur literature festival 28 Jan 2011 | 02:05 am
TUESDAY NIGHT. 1900 HRS. JAIPUR AIRPORT ROSWITHA: * checks in for flight an hour and a half ahead of time* ROSWITHA: * settles in to wait the long wait of the righteous and the once-bitten twice-shy ...
metro mundanities, random classics 14 Jan 2011 | 12:06 am
Versions of these short reviews appeared in Mint Lounge on January 8, 2011. A brief and irritable note on the following: The Premier Murder League, Geeta Sundar With or Without You, Partha Sarathi B...
art in mumbai 9 Jan 2011 | 12:00 am
Unbelievable but true. Below, two brief notes on ongoing shows in Mumbai. Versions of these appeared in Mint Lounge on January 8, 2011. Ranbir Kaleka's Sweet Unease Sweet Unease, Ranbir Kaleka’s fir...
man of the hours 8 Jan 2011 | 11:58 pm
The soundtrack of 127 Hours is the best proof yet that Rahman can push the envelope for Hollywood as successfully as he does for Indian cinema. A version of this review appeared in Mint Lounge on Jan...
looking forward to jaipur 2011 8 Jan 2011 | 11:53 pm
A version of this story appeared in Mint Lounge on Jan 8, 2011 “About fourteen,” is William Dalrymple’s amused census of attendance at the first Jaipur Literature Festival in 2006. Then a small part ...
a year in reading, 2010, part one-ish. 31 Dec 2010 | 08:39 pm
In no particular order, here are some of my favourite disquisitions of the year. The political biases in this highly biased list should be unsurprising. So also some of the writers, many of whom have ...
a mature response to the end of the year 23 Dec 2010 | 01:13 am
While I gather up my courage for a 'Year in Reading' post, a Q&A meme in which I was tagged months ago by Aisha. All answers calibrated to reflect reading/re-reading between January-December this year...
