The Countdown Begins
As the hindi version of the much celebrated series 24 hits the Indian telly, Thomas Crowley…
Pop Goes the Culture
Breaking News
More than two months after the April 15th Boston Marathon bombings, news stories about the attack…
Schismatics
Ideologies bring people together and then they drive them apart. But wait. This isn’t like communalism…
The Greatest Thing since Sliced Bread
Everything was going fine until a slice of anthropomorphic bread told me that he (she?) was…
At the Airport with Borges
Reading the short stories of Borges produces a sense of vertigo. Borges has a talent for…
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…