This is my first Sunday without Barkha Dutt’s We the People in several years now, and it’s been quite an adjustment. I signed on to Directv’s offering of Hindi channels back in 2006 and it wasn’t long before Barkha Dutt was competing with Tim Russert, then David Gregory and Fareed Zakaria for my attention over […]
Desert Island Discs – Happy 70th!
Today marks the 70th anniversary of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, a wonderful programme that you really must check out, if you haven’t listened to it before. For the uninitiated, here’s how the show functions: after a little bit of very languid music and seagull calls, the host speaks to that episode’s guest (a […]
James X arrives in New York
The last time I was at the little theater at 45 Bleecker was to see Colin Quinn doing Long Story Short, his funny retelling of the history of man and all his weaknesses and imperfections, before it shifted to Broadway. Last night, I was there for the preview of a drama – James X – […]
Thanks but no thanks, Barnes & Noble
Weeks and weeks and weeks ago, when I saw that Michael Ondaatje would be doing a reading at the Union Square Barnes & Noble tonight as part of the book tour for his delightful latest novel (The Cat’s Table), I noted it on my calendar with an idea to go and see him, as I […]
Salman & Katrina filming at Trinity College Dublin
Kabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger might be the first Hindi film shot in Ireland, but the Tamil film folk have been there already several years before…Still, it’s great to see them on Irish soil, and as Kabir suggests, I hope this will be the first of many more Hindi flics on location in Ireland. […]
Boy, I hope they don’t mess this up
Very interested to see that AMC will be developing a TV series of Vikram Chandra’s wonderful, hulking big opus Sacred Games to TV. Chandra touched on the possibility of the novel making it to a film screen here, in an evening he spent at the Asia Society in NY a few years ago.