Nine Lives, jugalbandhi
Illustrations: Prabha Mallya; Text; Nilanjana Roy (I wrote Nine Lives for Bombay Mid-Day, when they asked for a story about cats in 140 words. Then Prabha sent this stunning illustrated […]
Dan Brown’s Wikiprose
Inferno, Dan Brown, Bantam Press, Rs 750, 461 pages From the first sentence of Chapter One—“The memories materialized slowly… like bubbles surfacing from the darkness of a bottomless well”—to the […]
Speaking Volumes: The contested ground of Anandamath
(Published in the Business Standard, May 14, 2013) If it were not for the refusal of Shafique-ur-Rehman Barq, BSP member of Parliament, to join in with the singing of […]
Speaking Volumes: The unchaste page
(Published in the Business Standard, May 7, 2013) The reading was at a sedate mela; literature was tucked in sideways, between the food stalls and the sellers of heavy machinery. […]
The Babu, the Akhond and me
… are finally in the same place. Kitabkhana began in early 2003, back when people called the Internet the “information superhighway”. (The past is so much more glamorous than […]
Speaking Volumes: A is for Apple: what college won’t teach you
(Published in the Business Standard, April 30, 2013) Back in my day, which was of course when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Delhi University suffered from a serious case of […]
The Gospel of Twitter, In Seven Tweets
1) In The Beginning Was The Tweet, And The Tweet Was With God, And The Tweet Was God. 2) Thou Shalt Worship Only The God Of Twitter, Putting Aside […]
The crisis in our community
(Published by The Hindu on April 22, 2013. To read the final edited version with comments, please click here.) Why “stopping rape” isn’t possible unless we change the way we […]
