Ambling around Adelaide, fingers fervently crossed at the prospect of slipping into the final test match at the Oval. The twenty-sixth of January, our Republic Day, is also Australia Day. The Advertiser, a newspaper whose name suggests an unblushing commitment to its priorities, asks its readers about their holiday plans. Tenille Aberle from Mawson Lakes… [Read more…]
December 31, 2011
Buried in a bean bag in a cabana by a tropical poolside, eyes glazed with sleep, stray lines of sweat staining the back of the T-shirt, it’s a little difficult to comprehend the power of a cyclone that just left Chennai gasping for breath, with only periodic emails from home a reminder of papers that… [Read more…]
December 30, 2011
The point of pop culture isn’t some imagined idea of quality – just a sense of throbbing with a common pulse. The last column of the year. Should I devote it to best-of lists? A more cohesive meditation on the cinema of a year that, at the end of this day, will vanish from the… [Read more…]
November 11, 2011
Everyone has the right to an opinion about your work. After all, they’ve paid a pretty price for the privilege. What gives me the right to criticise a movie, a book, a work of art, a snatch of music? Perhaps the word “criticise” is too severe, the pedant’s equivalent of a cane whistling down on… [Read more…]
September 29, 2011
The director of IIT-Madras talks about playing the mridangam and pondering upon our country’s destiny even as he plays sheriff to a small town.
September 10, 2011
Ten years later, Baradwaj Rangan looks back at the country he left, the country that seems, somehow, so different today. The morning two determined terrorists, within a span of twenty minutes, brought down a couple of skyscrapers and snapped America’s spine, I was beginning a day of work in a suburb of Chicago. There was… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
An animation facility in the city pulls off its biggest project yet, at the behest of an Oscar-winning producer.
April 13, 2011
One day, just one day every few years, a cynic becomes a sentimentalist. It’s 8 am and there’s a hush over Besant Nagar – not a holiday hush, not the hush rising from the absence of traffic on roads as people go about the business of making a living and their uniformed children race to… [Read more…]
December 30, 2010
DEC 30, 2010 – The good people at Tehelka asked me (and three others) to pick a word — just a word – on which I could write a year-ender piece on. The airy mini-essay is here.
July 10, 2010
HIGH NOTES Dewar’s is back in India. And they’re going to tell you what whiskey goes best with Murg Makhani.
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