New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- The 81-year-old writer and professor Annie Dillard, who passed away on September 15, wrote one of the most-quoted passages in American literature on page five of her classic 1974 ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- There is a wholly understandable amount of remake/sequel fatigue in the median viewer. Every now and then, however, a writer or director's creative footprint is such it overpowers... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- The phrase "uncanny valley" is used to describe the complicated mixture of feelings evoked by watching something non-human that closely resembles an actual human being: anthropo... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- Writer, philosopher and educator Sundar Sarukkai's latest work of non-fiction, Homo Philosophicus: Discovering the Spirit of Philosophy in Everyday Life, isn't coy about its sca... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- This week marks 25 years since the 9/11 attacks. On 11 September 2001, two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in N... Read More
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