Behind the Panels is a comic book scripting workshop on Sunday, November 9, in Bandra, Mumbai, presented by Helter Skelter Magazine for everyone who wants to learn about the nuts and bolts of the ninth art. The workshop will be conducted by Jai Undurti, author of Hyderabad: A Graphic Novel,
Nikhil Mahajan's debut feature film Pune 52 invites viewers into the world of Amar Apte, a private detective who lives in Pune's Karve Nagar neighbourhood with his nagging wife and mother-in-law. Nikhil Mahajan's Pune 52 Played by Girish Kulkarni, Amar is a frustrated man
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
‘Do they really eat dog?’ was the most common question I encountered after I returned from a two-week-long trip to Xian and Beijing. It’s almost bizarre how the idea of a cuisine that is such a big part of the restaurant culture in India is fraught with so much
Annie Zaidi’s Gulab is a love story that brings together the seemingly incompatible worlds of the living and the dead, in which a Muslim woman who perishes in a 1990 earthquake finds a way to live out a life abruptly cut short. Annie Zaidi's Gulab Saira takes
Whenever I think of Dharamshala, what comes to mind are the boisterous, happily exhausting, twelve-hour-long bus rides to its nestled hilltops and kaleidoscopic recollections of a flurry of cafés, eateries, and monasteries, the rush of photographers, and the files of monks and trekking boots. Dharamshala’s call to travellers has
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
The early 1980s were an odd time to be a racial minority in Britain. Well, any point in history is arguably an odd time to be a racial minority in Britain. But the early 1980s were especially so, because they came at the end of a couple of decades of
A few days ago, I discovered Laxmi Bomb, a Mumbai-based electro-pop band with a new EP out titled Mah’Bharat. Usually, when I come across a new band, I like to close the curtains in my room, switch off all the fans and lights, and sit in the dark listening
The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee’s recently released second novel, begins with an epigraph by James Salter that frames the book’s essential query fittingly: “How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?” Even though the story, set in the
2014 has been a frightening year so far. A plane carrying three hundred people was shot down for no apparent reason (other than that it happened to be where it was). Israel decided that launching a wide ground offensive with the sole purpose of maiming, killing, and destroying civilians was
Samit Basu is undoubtedly one of India's best fantasy writers. Best known for his rather excellent Gameworld trilogy, Basu's more recent superhero novels Turbulence and Resistance have been very well received by fans and critics alike. He has also worked on a number of graphic novels,