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...
After three years of post-retirement blues, former government employee TS Rajagopalan started working again—at a call centre, with youngsters half his age
Bobby is a 32-year-old man who feels like a woman. Here, he talks about what he went through to be both, and still come out happy
The author on Calcutta’s elusive connection with its literary tradition and the anarchy caused by the Hungry Generation
Mothers think they are the centre of their children’s universe. Alas, they find they are not
This Tinseltown’s most prolific reporter works out of Patna. How does he go about doing his job in a state of absence?