New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- It's difficult to play it straight with period dramas these days. Viewers expect to find modern-day references or resonances in them; this in turn becomes a way for studios to s... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- What is wrong with the "Hindi heartland"? Like a lot of Bihari professionals living in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, I have often been asked variants of this question. A colleague... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Director Oliver Stone's 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps saw him return to one of the most memorable characters he'd created: the ruthless, glib corporate raider Gordon G... Read More
New Delhi, July 17 -- A line cricket fans and writers love to quote is Trinidadian historian and Marxist scholar C.L.R. James' "What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?" James meant that ... Read More
New Delhi, July 11 -- British-Asian writer Gurnaik Johal's ambitious debut novel Saraswati begins with Satnam (a Punjabi Londoner), one of the novel's main characters, staring at a well he has just in... Read More
New Delhi, July 6 -- The plot of Dada Comrade, the Hindi communist writer Yashpal's (1903-76) debut novel (originally published in 1941), was informed by the events of his own tumultuous youth. As an ... Read More