Known Turf

Now that the new book is out, we shall be doing a series of readings across various book-stores (and perhaps at some institutions too). This...

I headed towards the autos queued outside the domestic airport and carried my bags to the front of the line. As I got into the first auto, ...

It is the result of the joint labours (and loves) of myself and Smriti Ravindra. It is ready for scrutiny, and judgement, or whatever else y...

Here's a short video put together in the context of the book. If you have responses, or comments, they are most welcome here, or over a...

People, you see, have problems. And even if the problems are not of the state’s making, the people still expect the state to intervene.And w...

Wiktionary defines sovereignty as the state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations. In other words, ...

BSY posed for photographs — holding one edge of the resignation letter while the Governor held the other — smiling confidently for the came...

Over the last couple of years, I’d often see press releases from environmental groups or an angry letter on a mailing list lashing out at R...

I can’t remember the last time I noticed film credits roll in Devnagri. In fact, I too have switched to the Roman script when writing in Hin...

"When motor vehicles bring in the risk of death, why are pedestrians given most of the responsibility of preventing it?" That a...

The tears come when the  kachra-wala  rings the bell. It is the son of the lady who usually comes. A boy in his late teens, hair plastered d...

What do you want, Mumbai? Who do you want as your neighbour, or tenant? You want ‘good’ people, yes? By good, you mean ‘respectable’, non-vi...

The blurb describes  Ibne Safi’s  Jasusi Duniya  series as an “intricately demented world of larger-than-life villains, mad genius detective...

A friend's friend was cheated and threatened by a man who married her. He and his family disappeared when it seemed like their game was ...

It’s not as easy as choosing between a pink lehenga and blue jeans with climate control factored in. What-to-wear is a finely calibrated dec...

It’s been so long since I saw television that I’m stunned at the sight of a young man being insulted on national television. I’m squirming ...

Blame it on the great Indian white skin fixation. Or, if you prefer, on a new body code that has corroded the flimsy wall between modeling a...

Try and imagine this. Take the names of eleven women you know. At the eleventh name, blink. That woman just disappeared from your life. Thi...

I’m ashamed. Deep down in my cynical writer’s heart, I didn’t believe he would actually do it. But he did. And I am ashamed because I’d hea...

Think about it. When was the last time you saw a romantic song where a couple dance — or even just circumambulate in a skippy, dreamy sort ...