Brand India’s Ambassador – Shashi Tharoor’s Ganesh Cellphones & Tigers
Bhaskar Dasgupta Oct 14, 2007 interacts: 1Ganesh Cellphones & Tigers is more a description of an idealised India neatly packaged and divided into bite sized pieces for public consumption.
Vanaja: A Movie That Moves Your Heart
Ras Siddiqui Oct 8, 2007 interacts: 8
Either Writer-Director Rajnesh Domalpalli is one of the luckiest first filmmakers around or true contender for future international movie fame.
War of Independence or the Great Mutiny
Bhaskar Dasgupta Sep 30, 2007 interacts: 30A review of William Dalrymple's book, The Last Mughal
A Writer's People and earlier works of V.S. Naipaul
William Dalrymple Sep 19, 2007 interacts: 26Naipaul was once a penetrating and unpredictable literary critic, but here criticism has been reduced to a series of spikey provocations.
Review of the Book: FREAKONOMICS
V S Gopalakrishnan Sep 10, 2007 interacts: 7Mercifully the sub-title of the book is “A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”.
The Green Palette
Nadeem Alam Sep 4, 2007 interacts: 1
Painting in Pakistan: the legacy of Anna Molka Ahmed, Zubeda Agha, Ustad Sharif, Allah Buksh, Chughtai, Sadequian and many others.
Book Review: Killer Tune by Dreda Say Mitchell
Arun Reginald Aug 27, 2007 interacts: 5
What is race? Is it the colour of our skins, or the faith of an individual, or is it the
A Humble Opinion of Habib Mamoo
shehlah zahiruddin Aug 24, 2007 interacts: 1"Yea!" I thought to myself, "a Zia Mohyeuddin play" - well not exactly! It really was Chekhov's play, but with names like Talat Hussain, Rahat
Women's Image and Imagery
Emma Alam Aug 22, 2007 interacts: 2Sumera Jawad has excavated with her brush, the buried history by unveiling the “image” of women.
Book: Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Asif Naqshbandi Aug 20, 2007 interacts: 19Aslam has really succeeded in portraying the lives, dreams, and fears of immigrant Pakistanis in the UK. That he does it with magical prose is
Michel Houellebecq: France's New Literary "Enfant Terrible" and Islamophobe
Asif Naqshbandi Aug 2, 2007 interacts: 26Reviews of "Atomised", "Platform" and "The Possibility of an Island".
Khuda Ke Liye
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jul 30, 2007 interacts: 237
"In the Name of God", it is about us - the people of Pakistan warts and all.
The Corporation That Changed The World
V S Gopalakrishnan Jul 27, 2007 interacts: 53A book exposing the illegalities, tyrannies, immorality, rapacity, frauds and every kind of misfeasance practised by the East India Company.
Film “Amu” Revisits the 1984 Sikh Massacre in Delhi
Ras Siddiqui Jul 27, 2007 interacts: 7
Kaju’s past leads to the year 1984, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
Tribute to a Master
Asif Alig Jul 24, 2007 interacts: 13A book dedicating the contributions of the great Indian littérateur Premchand
“A Mighty Heart” is a Mighty Sad Movie
Ras Siddiqui Jun 28, 2007 interacts: 72
It is the story of Mariane Pearl, one vulnerable, pregnant and devoted wife who is caught up in the search
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