Arun Kale
Live in Pune: Ma Faiza + Yusuf Kapasi
The first Eristoff Invasion pre-party takes place in Pune this weekend, and features DJs Ma Faiza and Yusuf Kapasi. These performances are meant as a prelude to David Guetta's India tour this March, as part of the second edition of the Eristoff Invasion festival (click here for details)
Listening for Music
Aditi Rao is a poet, potter, and peace educator. Over the last eight years, she’s hopped between Argentina, Mexico, and the United States for her education and volunteer work. Her work has been long-listed for the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing twice and won the Srinivas
Village Vignettes: Opium for Dinner
Time has this irritatingly disarming quality of making one get used to anything. In its characteristically flippant manner, it obliterates hesitation, smoothens out initial hiccups, steamrolling even the most novel experiences into the mundane plateau of routine. And so, after spending an action-packed initial three months in Pratapgarh, the distinctly
Book Review: Tamasha in Bandargaon
It’s been a while since someone caricatured us with skill, and made it funny without being trite. Tamasha in Bandargaon has brought R. K. Narayan-esque humour back. And after the downtrodden man theme that has so obsessed contemporary Indian writing for the last half a decade, the absurdities of
Testimonial Comics #21
David Guetta India Tour 2012
Multi-platinum selling producer and DJ David Guetta will perform in India for the first time this March, as part of the Eristoff Invasion festival. With massive hits such as 'Love is Gone', 'When Love Takes Over', and 'Sexy Bitch', David Guetta is undoubtedly one
He's Got Roses
Peter Cat Recording Co. are probably the most important band to come out of the Indian indie music scene in recent years. Their songs sound like life's classroom backbenchers's takes on love, played to the simultaneous background score of many Golden Era Hindi movie scenes.Their
Einstein and Faith
“There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” Thus begins Albert Camus’s seminal work in existential philosophy The Myth of Sisyphus. The premise of the book is an ancient legend in which the Greek hero, Sisyphus, is eternally condemned to the task of pushing a rock
Animal Rights, Body Paint, and G-Strings
What would motivate a young girl in her early twenties to stand in the freezing cold in stilettos and a bikini with the Canadian flag painted on her body, with nothing but an umbrella to shield her from the pouring rain?Answer: The need to help animals. Ashley Fruno as
Cinephilia: Albert Pinto's Wrath
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai? is a film that has long been a favourite of teenagers playing dumb charades. It used to be mine, too. When I first heard the name of the film (someone also mentioned that it was the longest name of any Hindi film), I
The Hidden Lands
American novelist Ronald Malfi has a number of novels to his credit in the horror/thriller genre, but his latest, The Canyon of Souls, is his first release in India. An adventure-sports thriller set around the regions of Nepal and Tibet, the book has been well-received by readers in the