New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- The Canadian writer M.G. Vassanji's latest novel (his 11th), The Apparition, plunges the reader head-first into the Delhi Sultanate in the early 14th century, the twilight days o... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- One of the more frustrating aspects of the Hollywood biopic boom is the recreating of famous moments from the celebrity subject's life. The most egregious example is the Freddie ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- There's a scene at the halfway mark of Sriram Raghavan's Ikkis (2026) that encapsulates the film's pacifist mindset. It's 2001, just a couple of years after the India-Pakistan war... Read More
New Delhi, July 24 -- There's a moment in the beginning of the titular story in Geetanjali Shree's collection Once Elephants Lived Here (translated into English by Daisy Rockwell) where the narrator b... Read More
New Delhi, June 20 -- I was introduced to the concept of "creepypasta", horror stories or threads circulated on the Internet, via Kane Parsons' YouTube series Backrooms (2022). The series followed the... Read More
New Delhi, June 12 -- The French-Iranian writer, artist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, who died on 4 June at the age of 56, was known for pioneering graphic novels like Persepolis (2003) and Embroider... Read More