Back in June 2011, we spoke to Manta Ray Comics founder Pratheek Thomas about the indie publisher's critically-acclaimed debut graphic novel Hush. The Manta Ray team has been busy since then, with regular appearances at comics conventions and publishing short comics in publications such as Mint, Forbes Life,
Rasmai, a word which directly translates to “that which is drenched in juice”, is a small village 28 kilometres from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. To me, Rasmai will always mean a haven, the venue for long summer holidays, rooms rich with the smell of ripening mangoes, lazy afternoons spent devouring Agatha
It is not very often that you come across a destination that jolts you out of your slumberous existence. And if you are a cynical traveller, driven by the urge to seek something different, then Iceland provides just the right kind of kick. The country is located to the south
On July 9, 2012, a group of more than 20 men publicly molested, manhandled, and stripped a 17-year-old girl outside a bar in an upmarket area in Guwahati, Assam. A local journalist shot this on camera, and the footage went instantly viral across news channels and social media. The reportage
Ashim Ahluwalia's lens may train on the same things you and I see, but there's a slant in its gaze and a filtering process that discards the tinsel surface in favour of the murk underneath. His first feature, John & Jane, showed us the split lives
When you embrace the 9 to 5 life, add some unnecessary melodrama to it, and sprinkle generous doses of elements that rape your sanity, hibernation seems to be the only way out. Until, of course, you find a great new graphic novel and an irresistible urge to write about it
Jai Arjun Singh is a New Delhi-based freelance writer and journalist. He has authored a monograph about the cult comedy film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and edited an anthology of film writing, titled The Popcorn Essayists: What Movies do to Writers. He has written for Yahoo! India, Business Standard, The
Author Anuradha Kumar spoke to us in an exclusive interview about putting together her latest novel It Takes A Murder. Read on for excerpts---"Murder is written into your life at the very beginning." I thought this was an incredibly intriguing thought. For It Takes a Murder, did
Like all longtime Wodehouse fans, I greeted the news of the B.B.C.'s 2013 Blandings Castle adaptation with much joy. I thought, mistakenly as it turned out, that Wodehouse's stories would be treated with the right kind of reverence, that the characters and their idiosyncrasies
I had only worked at a newspaper for a few months when I was told that I was to go "do a story about a rape". These instructions were delivered to me with the casual practicality that is symptomatic of hardened crime reporters. I was not one of
With Zombiestan, Mainak Dhar, bestselling author of Herogiri, adds a morbid dimension to global terrorism with a story that incorporates worldwide pestilence, gun-toting zombies rampaging through Afghan villages, and five unlikely individuals who come together to overcome the odds and fight for survival. The author spoke to us in an
Barring a few involuntary exceptions, it has been almost a year since I had my last meal at Kolkata U.P. Chats and Paratha Center. My failing health and a melancholic temperament had necessitated several frantic phone calls, an unannounced visit, and the decision that it would be in everyone’