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’
Click here to read The Tea Party (Part 1). It was the day before my birthday and I was expecting my friends at 7 p.m. for what I’d promised would be a really cool---I don’t do elegant very well---high tea party to bring in my birthday. “Are
It was late summer. One of those warm, balmy New York nights where you stand outside of the bar chatting for an hour instead of going home. Or you walk idly, perhaps taking the long way. Sometimes, when I was younger, on evenings like this, my girl friends and I
Headed by singer and songwriter Vitek Goyel, Slow Down Clown is a four-piece alternative rock outfit from Bombay whose first music video 'Stupid Sea' recently went live on YouTube. Resplendent with Bombay street art, the video marked a decided milestone for the band, and was soon followed by
Today, I am visiting Hipti. Remote and inaccessible, I am narrated enough tales from expert trekkers to know it is going to be a difficult climb. Hipti does not find particular mention on any of the tourist maps that the Leh Bazaar sells in profusion. It even causes some Ladakhis
'There are some things your forefathers didn't want you to forget,' begins the first installation of a series of graphic novels based on the Mahabharat, as Amruta Patil sets out to tell what she described to Paul Gravett as the story of "every human preoccupation