Moonballs from Planet Earth

The Cerne Giant on his Dorset hillside The Cerne Giant (pictured above) is one of England’s most cherished icons. He is a chalk figure etche...

A Manifesto for McCluskiegunge A Death in the Ganj, Konkana Sen Sharma’s debut as a director, is on Amazon Prime. It’s worth watching. Fea...

My family I are hooked on a TV miniseries called WandaVision.  WandaVision is a part of the Marvel-verse - an alternative reality with many...

IPL XIII Captains I’m watching the IPL. Everybody is watching the IPL. I’m watching the IPL partly because everybody is watching the IPL. ...

Karl Marx didn't have a whole lot to say about India, but this thought - likening India to an Asian Italy - is still fascinating.  I...

Mahabharata: the game of dice How could Yudhishtira have done what he did? How could noble King Dharmaputra have gambled away hi...

Bollywood India For the same reason that Sweden does crime fiction. Camilla Lackberg Sweden's best selling crime writer, Cam...

Watched the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing last weekend, and loved it. The magic ingredient? It...

I hate fortune tellers. This feeling isn't mild, amused scepticism, but fierce antipathy, and comes from Indian upbringing. B...

Kolaveri Di has lived out fourteen out of its fifteen minutes of fame. So, one final thought to occupy that last minute: Kolaveri Di h...

Once upon a time, grown women in Madras wore sarees. No longer. Now, the default outfit is a salwar kameez, especially among younger ...

I had been in Istanbul for a couple of days, gamely drinking Turkish coffee to keep my clients company. Now, my soul craved the familiar com...

"And then a scholar said, Speak of Talking. And he answered, saying... In much of your talking, thinking is half-murdered. For thought ...

“So, Prithvi, we have heard that Indians mostly have arranged marriages. Is this true? How does that work?” I was out at dinner with ...

Chennai Super Kings, my home town cricket team, just won IPL 4 in style. They have clearly been the best team on show since the inception of...

This post is being published on December 25 to honour a deity whose birth is traditionally celebrated on this day: the sun god, Mithras . ...