Saturday, May 29, 2010

American Pie

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA Peter Carey It’s an irony of history that an aristocrat from...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Medical Mystery Tour

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This appeared in the March/April issue of Biblio THE QUARANTINE PAPERS Kalpish Ratna Plagues have always attracted writers. The word itsel...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

A Beastly Tale

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This appeared in Saturday's The Hindustan Times BEATRICE AND VIRGIL Yann Martel There’s no getting away from it: Yann Martel’s Beatric...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Axe Effect

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My first column for Yahoo! India is up: this one deals with the proper role of the novel today . Do read.
Friday, May 14, 2010

Delta Force

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This appeared in last week's Mint Lounge KILLING THE WATER Mahmud Rahman A parlour game that’s sometimes been played is to list the me...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Satyrs Of Suburbia

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This appeared in today' s Indian Express COLLECTED STORIES Hanif Kureishi In his introduction to The Second Plane , Martin Amis writes,...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Little Light, More Heat

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This appeared in today's DNA . SOLAR Ian McEwan You can’t scan the newspaper these days without spotting headlines dealing with the fa...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Who's Indian, What's Authentic

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This appeared in today's DNA . BECOMING INDIAN Pavan K. Varma The ultimate triumph of colonialism is to keep the subject’s mind in chai...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Slim Book, Weighty Point

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A slightly abridged version of this appeared in today's The Indian Express POINT OMEGA Don DeLillo In Don DeLillo’s 2007 Falling Man ,...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Going, Going, Gone

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This appeared in today's DNA . WAY TO GO Upamanyu Chatterjee “To a man with a hammer,” wrote Mark Twain, “the world is a nail”. And to...
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