Sunday, March 30, 2008

Not without my father

›
Away from the pseudo-activism of the Bollywood glitterati, a young assistant director of Taare Zameen Par fights for her father, who is und...
18 comments:
Friday, March 28, 2008

The making of a Naxalite

›
In his first ever interview, top Naxal leader Misir Besra tells me how a jackfruit tree led him to the Naxal movement. When the police part...
3 comments:
Saturday, March 08, 2008

Who is Manmohan Singh?

›
Coke and Haldiram's have reached the worst-affected naxalite areas of Jharkhand but not the government. On the budget day, Rahul Pandi...
2 comments:
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Times like these

›
How does one live In times like these? Does one have to live In times like these? I don’t remember last night. It rained heavily and I only ...
2 comments:
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Could I ever sleep?

›
On the road below They keep on creating noise: Hawkers looking for Stale newspapers and empty Whisky bottles Beggars masquerading as ascetic...
1 comment:

The man with a tie

›
I like it when people pay attention to my stories. For a living I sell medicines – promote them, to be precise – but my real talent, if you ...
2 comments:
Friday, February 15, 2008

Our own Kolkatas

›
In the miasma of darkness, cars moved along the tall building. Their high-beam lights shone on the glass façade for a moment and then moved ...
3 comments:
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Let's remember each other by name

›
I have this very strong belief that all stories deserve to be told. For a story-teller, imagination is like a whore. She entices him with fa...
6 comments:
Saturday, February 02, 2008

At the Oxford Book Store

›
Speaking at the Oxford Book Store, Delhi during a discussion on Media Nagar 03 .
3 comments:

"Writing is the most exciting thing in my life"

›
He teaches Marketing at the Oxford University, but if you read his three novels, you might take him for a historian. Unlike some of the Indi...
1 comment:
Friday, January 25, 2008

On suicide, Wandhama and, perhaps, everything else in life

›
This evening, a middle-aged man with receding hairline jumped from the top floor of my office building and died on the floor, next to a prom...
7 comments:
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Friends don't die

›
“He was carrying his revolver when they shot him dead.” The old caretaker at the Ghadar Memorial Hall in Jalandhar takes out a blue handkerc...
11 comments:
Saturday, December 08, 2007

On the Kodak paper

›
Beneath the red quilt, your memories seep inside me like brandy. The days are shorter now and, in the night, when I am sometimes awakened, I...
5 comments:
Sunday, November 11, 2007

For old time's sake

›
Theek hai - so be it you said, promising to buy me a pocket watch. Opening its lid, I'll watch seconds glide into years; wait for Capta...
1 comment:
Friday, October 26, 2007

One of those days

›
Sometimes, nothing matters in life. You wake up, stumble towards the balcony, pick up the bunch of newspapers, remove the rubber band which ...
5 comments:
Friday, October 12, 2007

Hindi post

›
I have just written a piece in Hindi for a friend's blog. You can access it here .
2 comments:
Thursday, September 06, 2007

Is the apple tree still there? (Part2)

›
Twenty-nine years ago there were very few houses there. And those had no boundary walls. The blossom-strewn patches of grass outside a house...
7 comments:
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Is the apple tree still there? (Part 1)

›
Suhail tells me of a boy who went with him to a boarding school, in a remote district of Kashmir. The boy, it seems, felt home sick, time an...
9 comments:
Friday, August 10, 2007

Dal lake, Kashmir

›
So many stories to tell, from Kashmir. Watch this space.
8 comments:
Monday, June 25, 2007

The boy on the highway

›
I shot this picture in January 2006, on the Barmer-Jodhpur highway, in Rajasthan. This boy came to us out of curiosity, and performed Gymnas...
3 comments: