Jayant Kamicheril
He loved the quiet life in Kerala: the settled job, the quaint club with a pool full of frogs, perhaps even the growing paunch. Now, he explains the physics of arranged marriages to Yanks. Besides selling spices, that is
He suffers from amusia and can’t tell the difference between the national anthem and Beethoven’s Fifth
In these times when success is determined by numbers, poetry is a marginal mode of communication. Perhaps what the poet should look for is the intensity of his readership, not its size
If an etching of her presence on the template of history is what she wanted, that’s all she’ll have got at the end. Here’s how we’ll remember her
There’s more to the erotic imagery at the Khajuraho temples than a wanton display of lust. The author reveals the architectural logic for these sacred sculptures
This author lost his boyhood to science fiction. It was a bit like Dante’s hell: abandon ye all hope, those who enter here
So the scene for Indians is really bad in Australia. But surely there’s something these hapless desis can do to make life easier for themselves
Resul Pookutty is a film sound engineer, sound designer and sound mixer. In 2008, he won the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing for Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire
A modest apartment, a borrowed Maruti 800 for outings, Mahendra Peshwa, descendant of the legendary Maratha rulers, is like any other middle-class guy. Except for that last name...