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February, 2019

Wakanda forever, lah, beyond the West

TGV is the newer of Miri’s two movie theaters. Past the vendors selling durian and rambutan in the tamu, the stall keepers offering nasi lemak..

February, 2019

No mere film star!

The arts and culture pages of the day before yesterday’s Hindu newspaper (April 24th 2015) brought back vivid memories of my first visit to India..

January, 2019

Two facets

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been torn between the two irreconcilable halves of my person- Tanisha, my name on every official document,..

January, 2019

If I really must go shopping

II dislike shopping. That is, I am intolerant of the endless mind-numbing browsing of groaning shelves and sagging racks of items that I can live..

December, 2018

Morning Raga

Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.

December, 2018

The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch — Book Review

Sameen Borker reviews The Sensational Life & Death of Qandeel Baloch, by Sanam Maher.

November, 2018

Vendors of Dignity & Cows of Jayanagar

Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.

November, 2018

The Best Asian Short Stories 2017

Fehmida Zakeer reviews Kitaab's first anthology of The Best Asian Short Stories.

October, 2018

(Not Quite) Lost in the Lanes of Jayanagar

Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose's experience of Bangalore through his many visits.

September, 2018

THE POWER OF P’s: Philosophy, Puberty, and Pumice

I GREW UP IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA IN THE EARLY 1950’s, when television was in its infancy (only three channels). We had a twelve inch..

August, 2018

Living with Jazz

I was painfully aware of my lack of a jazzer’s ear the year I spent playing tenor saxophone in my high school jazz band. I..

July, 2018

Medea on Prozac

Dyna Kassir's essay is a collection of speculative thoughts, diverse and scattered but many times blended and regrouped, inspired by the 2008 movie “Slumdog Millionaires” directed by Danny Boyle.

July, 2018

Crooked Aesthetics

It is 2012. My youth group in church does not invite me to a party because they think I am too weird, and that my..

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June, 2018

Remembering Bargemusic – A Love Story

I wrote this piece in 1996, in the early years of Bargemusic, before its full flourishing and when it was still possible to get a..

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May, 2018

A Series of Backhanded Compliments

“Before I met you, south Indian people made me cringe.” Just as my roommate uttered one of her most ignorant remarks to date, I bit..

March, 2018

Stairs to the Sundial

(Poetry Collection ‘Available Light’ by CP Surendran – A Review) With ‘Available Light’, CP Surendran unleashes on us, verses set to the eternal ticks..

January, 2018

#DoGoodForBlaze

I did not know Blaze Bernstein personally until this morning. Yet, this morning, when I belatedly came to know of his untimely death, I could..

December, 2017

BLOODLINE

I picked Washington Square1 from a low shelf in my parents’ living room, having courted the idea for a while, as the book looked pretty. I..

December, 2017

The Thing about Mumbai Locals

Every morning I wake up at 8 am. I get dressed, wear my expensive tie and shiny watch. Then I roll my sleeves and walk..

November, 2017

From Samuel Goldwyn to Andrea Arnold: the transformation of Heathcliff’s filmic identity

Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff is ‘a Lascar’ and a ‘dark-skinned gipsy in aspect’. With the arrival of Heathcliff, the idea associated with him is that of..

November, 2017

Leonardo Da Vinci: The New Biography

Suhail Rasheed shares his experience of reading Leonardo Da Vinci's new biography by Walter Isaacson

September, 2017

Teaching the Harlem Renaissance

I Skyped with four eighth graders seated in someone’s living room while someone’s grandma puttered around in the background, obviously eavesdropping on our chat about..