Creative Non-Fiction
That Night..
Do you have a favourite mom-dad story, too? The one they tell you so often, and so vividly, that you feel you were right there..
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Creative Non-Fiction
Food for the soul and the stomach
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Culture
Having a Pension: The Last American Dream Becomes an Element of Myth
Whereas hope and empowerment characterize the realm of dreams, mythic landscapes can be quite different, rife with obstacles the hero cannot overcome, despite hard work..
Cinema
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..
Creative Non-Fiction
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..
Creative Non-Fiction
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,..
Creative Non-Fiction
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..
Creative Non-Fiction
Morning Raga
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Book Reviews
The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch — Book Review
Sameen Borker reviews The Sensational Life & Death of Qandeel Baloch, by Sanam Maher.
Creative Non-Fiction
Vendors of Dignity & Cows of Jayanagar
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Book Reviews
The Best Asian Short Stories 2017
Fehmida Zakeer reviews Kitaab’s first anthology of The Best Asian Short Stories.
Creative Non-Fiction
(Not Quite) Lost in the Lanes of Jayanagar
Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
Non-Fiction
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..
Music
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..
Cinema
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.
Creative Non-Fiction
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..
Non-Fiction
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..
Non-Fiction
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..
Book Reviews
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..
Editorial
#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..
Literature
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..
Culture
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..
Cinema
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..
Book Reviews
Leonardo Da Vinci: The New Biography
Suhail Rasheed shares his experience of reading Leonardo Da Vinci’s new biography by Walter Isaacson