about me… Yes, this is one of those tagging thingies. Atanu, who, though he does not understand and detests my filmi leanings, is a friend nonetheless and the one who got me. According to his own blog post, here are the rules of the tagged game : 1. Each player starts with 8 random […]

  Currently on tour promoting his long awaited new novel (Divisadero), Michael Ondaatje made an appearance at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble to do a reading, book-signing  and some Q & A.   Joel Grey, the actor, was in the audience and chatted with  him briefly. Earlier in the day, he was interviewed on WNYC, […]

  Having barreled through the waiting-for-Bachchan tale by Jessica Hines, I’ve just  picked up film journalist Anupama Chopra’s soon-to-be released King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema. Chopra has written about the film industry for India Today for over a decade, and also writes for The New York Times […]

and Sartaj and Ganesh. I was thrilled last year when I got hold of a copy of Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games shortly after it was released, and resolved to go back to reading before sleep each night. But work and waking hours grew longer and longer, sleep became more and more elusive, add to that […]

  SRK to Salman, in the last episode of KBC. What more is there to say?

I’ve got wedding fever. It’s non-stop on Star News and NDTV, the cars driving in and out of Jalsa, the honivallee Mrs. 2.0’s doli arriving, the glimpses of the alternating dark and light green fabric adorning the entryway inside the gates, the strings and strings of lights, even from the Rai family apartment building, yes, […]