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Monday, February 02, 2015
Beyond the crowds
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"This thing is a Wembley concert now, but this place can only accommodate a warehouse gig crowd," said a Nigerian writer, who ...
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The A-Z of Jaipur Literature Festival 2015
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A for Anchee Min: The Chinese American author left the audience in turns haunted and entertained by recalling her days of working f...
Poetry and truth at the Mumbai Film Festival
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Any piece of art should aim to live up to the two ideals that German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe preferred: Dichtung und Wahrheit ...
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Great MFF Expectations
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Here's a pitch for a short film: A multi-billion dollar conglomerate pulls out of a film festival, leaves it almost asphyxiated for ...
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In pursuit of unhappiness
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Within a span of three years (2009-11), Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote a 3,600-page, six-volume series of books that catapul...
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MTV goes back
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At the cavernous venue of the launch party of Pepsi MTV Indies, a 24-hour Indian independent music channel, the air was palpably differe...
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Lovable fuck-up of a man
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In the seventies the American fiction’s landscape was dotted with male characters that were predominantly machoistic. Famous writers lik...
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The A-Z of Jaipur Lit Fest 2014
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After five days of passive and active interaction with some of the finest creative minds of the world, it’s only appropriate I don’t ac...
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Friday, January 24, 2014
JLF's unmissables
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I feel I'm at the front row of a U2 concert," quipped a friend who was with me at the jam-packed Jonathan Franzen talk at the r...
Friday, December 20, 2013
Top ten films of 2013
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This year has been a great one for cinema, what with a nuanced movie on homosexuality winning the top prize at Cannes (Blue is the W...
Friday, October 25, 2013
Good grief
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Speaking on the sidelines of the 15th Mumbai International Film Festival, the French filmmaker Leos Carax said that every generation had...
Friday, August 02, 2013
The Tyranny of Now
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In a recent interview with LA Review of Books the novelist Martin Amis said that more than fiction he is more concerned about the immine...
Monday, April 15, 2013
Starry-eyed cinema
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I don’t exactly know when, but it looks pretty possible that this malignant trend emerged in the mid-eighties. It was Disney-ABC’s A...
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