A. R. Rahman, today

You’ve heard the phrase “gateway drug”?   Usually it refers marijuana, with some  folks asserting that smoking pot is not as harmless as most people think, rather, it’s the start of a slippery slope, serving as a gateway to harder drugs. For me, the 1998 release Dil Se was a gateway film, in so many […]

Ghosh, Baker, Slumdog

Doston, two pointers….. Khabar magazine’s November issue carried a double interview I did with Amitav Ghosh and his wife, author Deborah Baker.   Ghosh discussed his recent, Booker-nominated tale Sea of Poppies, and Baker, her recent book, A  Blue Hand,  about the Beat poets in India. In their December issue, Khabar has a review I […]