While editing text for something about the National Awards, I found that a lot of actors who have won in …
Saudi Arabia: Holier Than Thou
In 1990, a friend of mine, a writer and an intellectual, went to visit his son in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. …
In My Own Backyard
Father Richie heads the Mass Communication department at the St. Aloysius College. Although his University restricts the electronic media syllabus …
Festival-Krrazzy Kolkata
Cold shoulders. Plastic smiles cut-and-pasted from glossy toothpaste ads. See-through eyes. Smouldering looks. Conversations generously peppered with names like Bunuel, …
Israel: Biblical Balderdash
I have been following and keeping track of the Middle East conflict for many, many years. But it was only …
Sights and Sounds of Jogeshwari East
Sushma, my wife, had agreed upon this one bedroom-kitchen-hall abode that we are presently residing in, mainly because our colony, …
The Dangerous Student is now a Grand Shaykh
(In continuation to The Dangerous Student as a Young Man) It was 424 AH (or 1034 AD) and the scholars …
The Dangerous Student as a Young Man
(In continuation to A Tale of a Dangerous Student) The year was AH 390 (or AD 1000) when the emir …
Death of a Filmmaker
It’s often said that to reach the top is easy, it is how long you stay there that shows true …
A Tale of a Dangerous Student
It was in the year 380AH (or 990 AD according to the Christian calendar) that the student lifted his eyes …