Skimming the surfaces of sexism isn''t enough

Thursday 3 January '13

Gangrape speaks of the deep pathologies in the way young men are socialised. We should look within

The second-time diva

Friday 12 October '12

The success of 'English Vinglish'' might lead to more films with older women in the lead role

Just by closing his eyes

Thursday 19 July '12

Rajesh Khanna could light up a room

Facts About Fiction

Saturday 19 February '11

Orhan Pamuk''s masterclass on the art and craft of the novel.

Pretty Cosmetic

Saturday 2 October '10

A beautiful young thing in Pakistan sinks her well-groomed talons into the issue of honour killings

They Did It

Saturday 27 February '10

Very few crime novels have been written in English in India, but it is a relief to know that the genre has been thriving in other languages.

Monarch Butterfly

Saturday 23 January '10

This is probably one of the more difficult stories to write that of a powerful, but aging monarch, and her trusted, but often manipulative, khidmatgar.

The Why Chromosome

Sunday 12 April '09

An Indian son''s search for his Pakistani father and his Muslim legacy

Her Many Worlds

Sunday 11 January '09

Qurratulain Hyder''s jilted begum, eccentric spinsters and even a time machine

Midnight''s children

Sunday 14 December '08

After 26/11, these Partition stories have an even more anguished resonance n kishwar desai

The Revolution is Over, Baby

Sunday 6 July '08

From the turbulence of Partition, through the creation of Bangladesh to the cynicism of today

And they lived happily ever after?

Saturday 31 May '08

In the superbly sensitive portrayal of a homosexual relationship in Brokeback Mountain...

Will you remain my Shah Rukh?

Saturday 10 May '08

The biggest shock I got at Shobhaa De''s book launch was not about her sympathy for Raj Thackeray, nor her somewhat insular Delhi-bashing...

An Affair to Remember

Sunday 4 May '08

How Roberto Rossellini stirred up a storm in India

Diaspora doldrums

Sunday 6 April '08

A painfully honest memoir on Punjabi immigrants

She walked in beauty

Wednesday 26 March '08

While the stamp commemorating the gorgeous Madhubala comes not a day too soon, why is it that the government forgot another...

Akbar's Jodhaa

Thursday 6 March '08

It''s the chemistry, not the history, stupid! Jodhaa Akbar is not a historical film, it''s a romantic period film...

Bombay Lost and Found

Sunday 17 February '08

Kamala Markandaya''s posthumously published novel brings alive a 1980s Bombay with its lust, greed and idealism

Yeh hai Bollywood, meri jaan

Wednesday 13 February '08

In true Bollywood style Farah Khan gave birth to triplets this week and no doubt has already written the script around them.

SON WORSHIPPERS

Sunday 20 January '08

Manil Suri explores the obsession with the male child with a gentle but mathematical thoroughness and some luminous writing

Booking lives, living books

Monday 3 December '07

The problem with biographies is that no one likes to write the truth. The even bigger problem is that no one can quite remember it.

Simply Ismat

Sunday 16 September '07

Chughtai''s take on Guru Dutt''s life is brilliant

Divisions, Subtractions

Sunday 2 September '07

A scholarly book explains how Partition''s repercussions still trouble India and Pakistan

After Midnight: A Reel Story

Sunday 29 July '07

Tabish Khair''s novel ambitiously uses cinema to revisit the effects of Partition. But is it too choreographed?

The girl with a gold nose ring

Monday 5 March '07

The trouble began, when in keeping with her family traditions, Sunali had her nose pierced with a gold nose stud, in 2004, after she had just turned 15