Spellbound in India

Roberto Rossellini arrived in India in December 1956 at the invitation of prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to make a series…

Item Quotient

For last year?s Diwali blockbuster, the retro flick Om Shanti Om, starring Shah Rukh Khan and newcomer Deepika Padukone, director…

Heart of darkness

There have been many India books this past year or two, but Aravind Adiga?s debut novel, which shines a light…

Conflicted hearts

What?s even more interesting is that though Unaccustomed Earth talks about the immigrant experience, like The Namesake, it goes beyond…

Minimum City

As Shroff takes in the sights and sounds, we are taken on a tour of the city – okay, it?s…

The turn of a century

In 1979, a young American graduate decided to reinvent an old Cambridge University student magazine called The Granta (founded in…