Anuja Chandramouli: The Hopeless Blogger!

  Illicit liquor claiming the lives of poor labourers in Tamil Nadu is so very par for the course, that most can hardly be bestirred to prot...

  Kalki was the consummate storyteller and in his chosen genre of historical fiction, showcased a dazzling skill for resurrecting the past w...

  The world is a horrifying place that can beat the goriest and most grotesque of horror movies hollow on any given day. There are terrors a...

  Cases of strays or pet dogs, routinely attacking citizens and claiming lives, including those of children regularly makes it to headlines....

  Imtiaz Ali’s biopic on Amar Singh Chamkila is a wakeup call. The singer, known as the Elvis of Punjab and his singer – wife, who sang wild...

Shinie Antony - writer, editor, novelist, and columnist, is the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Asia Prize, co – founder of the Banga...

  Karl Marx famously disparaged religion as “the opium of the masses”. Though my German is even poorer than my Hindi, I take it that that Ma...

  Mahashivaratri 2024 was a tremendous experience. Nityanjali, our dance troupe performed in Thiruvaiyaru (10:00 pm) and Thiruvidaimarudur (...

  There is only one thing worse than being inundated with invitations to an endless array of ‘happening’ events I feel compelled to attend e...

  An abiding love for mythology can never be a bad thing and yet, somehow, we seem to have found a way to take something wonderful, toss it ...

  Few things can shake us out of our collective apathy, but the death of a 4-year-old, murdered by his mother has done the job. Public fury ...

  Thanks to false modesty, I did not show off. But that is no longer an excuse because it is finally acceptable to brag about mediocrity acr...

  I was at the Arunachal Literature Festival, held recently, and enjoyed the ‘author life’. But this piece is not about the things authors d...

  The festival of lights is upon us! That time of the year when we overdress, overspend, overindulge on ghee laden sugary treats, and argue ...

  Perhaps being an ignoramus is indeed bliss. Especially in a Fools’ Paradise which some compelling but not entirely credible types claim is...