“Sipping masala chai off the highway. Super drive to Bombay so far.” Wow. Imagine that. On a random Tuesday evening, you’re driving to Bombay. It’s a great ride, thankfully great weather. You’ve been listening to that carefully compiled ‘on the road’ CD. You pull away just for
One day, all of a sudden, the world came crashing down.It wasn’t a great disaster. Neither was it a heart-wrenching calamity. It was simply a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as I sat and typed out a completely mundane story about luxury retail. Luxury retail.
Marjorie Kramer is of the view that there is no such thing as the ‘Anatomy is Destiny’ theory, that women have some inherent feminine quality which encompasses all their works and constitutes a ‘feminine aesthetic’, such as vaginal images. “Henry Moore does holes as much as Georgia O’Keeffe and
Mumbai teaches you ignorance. It is an inevitable lesson imparted regardless of whether you live in the tallest luxury tower or a tent on the sidewalk. It teaches you how to perceive but not act, it teaches you how to pity while remaining in the mode of inaction. When I
Stories, incredibly human, wrap themselves around these vignettes of lust. Sometimes, there is profound unhappiness in the places where lust has earlier been; people and times encoded into spaces and movements. Sometimes, there is staleness, a burnt taste even, and there is the realisation that there is as much wariness
[Cue in Eminem song] One Shot... One Opportunity... Back in February, I chanced upon an announcement on Asia Writes. A competition. One chance, one opportunity... to be published*. I teetered on indecision. Face it, my inner demon said. Don’t be such a ninny. If you are good, you are
From the writer of the acclaimed Difficult Daughters (1998), comes a new novel that traverses yet another aspect of upper middle class life in Delhi. In Kapur’s new novel, Custody (2011), her readers are led into the world of ugly custody battles in the background of India’s maze
Very rarely does one take the road not taken. Even more rarely does one take such a road in the ‘Red Corridor’ of India. The content of the book is one thing, but the conviction shown by the author, the passion that is writ large on the glossy pages of
You taste his movies through your eyes. It does not matter if it is a tale of urban alienation, forlorn love, or modern living---to mete out any other treatment to Wong Kar-wai’s brand of luxuriant cinema is undoubtedly an insult. As the luscious shades of red, green, and blue
How do you make friends in a big city? Things move fast in New York. Everyone knows someone. No one has the time to stop and get to know you also. Living alone in a strange, new city… I have often pondered this issue. How do you make friends in
