Magical Medical Tour
In Don DeLillo’s satirical yet chilling novel White Noise, the protagonist’s life is upended by an amorphous…
The Year in YouTube
Here’s a fun online experiment. Go to the “charts” section of YouTube. Make sure your location…
Platter Politics
A pork and beef festival most emphatically did not happen at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on September 28,…
Battle of the Mega-Cities
The novelists Vikram Chandra and Sujit Saraf share remarkably similar life stories. Both were born in…
Beware of the Yogi
The month of June saw Baba Ramdev making a comeback to newspaper headlines, rejoining anti-corruption crusader…
Return of the Camp
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have seen ‘Gunda’, and those…
The Anti-Kolaveri?
When I wrote about ‘Why this Kolaveri Di’ back in January, its wave of popularity was…
Kiss Kiss Bhang Bhang
To be honest, I got the idea for this column when I was hit by my…
Another Country, Another Real Estate Mafia
2011 was a momentous years for fans of Arrested Development, an American TV comedy series with…
Flop Column
Yo readers. I am write column. Soup column. Flop column. Yes, like many random Internet auteurs,…