Prabha Mallya: Illustrator’s Note
Nilanjana Roy’s The Wildings, on my third reading of it (a couple of months after the last illustration for the book was handed in) still moves me deeply. It was always […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
About The Wildings
Mara’s story She was an orange kitten with deep green eyes, no bigger than the palm of my partner’s hand. Mara had been rescued from a drain in Sujan Singh […]
The Bhagat Brandwagon
(Published in the Business Standard, August 21, 2012; this is a slightly longer version) It took the much-praised (and occasionally maligned) Chetan Bhagat just one bestseller to become a character […]
Speaking Volumes: Emperors, apostates and absences
(Published in the Business Standard, August 14, 2012) The price Raja Rammohan Roy paid in the early 19th century for expressing his views on Hinduism and sati was not minor. […]
All creatures great and small
(This post was sparked by a story in The New York Times on the stray dog “menace” in India; and by reading Jai Arjun’s post on human cruelty/ indifference towards […]
All creatures great and small
(This post was sparked by a story in The New York Times on the stray dog “menace” in India; and by reading Jai Arjun’s post on human cruelty/ indifference towards […]
Food: In The Flesh
Published in Seminar, 2005 Here is a partial list of animals I have eaten over the last three decades. Goat (legs, stomach, brain, sweetbreads, kidney, liver, yes; eyes and head, […]
