Articles by C.P. Surendran

C.P. Surendran

Newest Man From La Mancha

Rushdie borrows Cervantes’s many-mirrored structure to portray our post-truth world of leaky realities; it...

Oct 30, 2019 C.P. Surendran
Driver Calls December Beatrice

Woven within an ambience of loss—of innocence, home, honour—Jha clinically details his characters’...

Jul 03, 2019 C.P. Surendran
No Rhyme, Only An Anguished Cry

The Hungryalists found a visceral new idiom to lance the pustules around them. The resultant backlash...

May 29, 2019 C.P. Surendran
Book For All Chiroptophobics

Transgression leads to transcendence in this genre-bending novel, as shape-shifting ideologies are left for...

Apr 24, 2019 C.P. Surendran
Shockie’s Last Blast

A novel on the ravages of terrorism fails on account of insipidity

Jul 21, 2016 C.P. Surendran
Let ‘A’ Be The New Universal

The censor board is right about the new Jungle Book. It’s not fit for unrestricted viewing, but neither are...

Apr 14, 2016 C.P. Surendran
We Asked Them For Stories

You will, woncha? By mid-October? While the goddess is straw still?.... Oh, but to count the bellows of the...

Nov 02, 2015 Shashi Tharoor
Materia Medica

From an ongoing work, a return to poetry after eight years

Sep 08, 2014 C.P. Surendran
Those Black Silk Curtains

Ok, you look young with your hair. But should you, after all? Ask Rajni

May 19, 2008 C.P. Surendran
I'm A National Absession

Shah Rukh Khan inhabits a universe that revolves solely around himself

Dec 03, 2007 C.P. Surendran
Glorious Make Belief Bharat!

Stars survive in a wispy, staged world. Politics is too real.

May 21, 2007 C.P. Surendran
There's No Poetry Anymore

The written word no longer seems a way of happening, Auden said. Can't agree more.

Jan 10, 2005 C.P. Surendran
Misfortune's Duo

Tantalising in its understatement, the sadness of his vision wells up through the words.

Dec 09, 2002 C.P. Surendran
Pearl-White Bones

Is reviewing books the best way to lose friends? Is that why our reviewer is playing safe?

Sep 23, 2002 C.P. Surendran
Being And Nosiness

The fragrance, if any, is fleeting, while the words kill with their excess

Apr 15, 2002 C.P. Surendran
Amour Sonar Bangla

Compared to the rhetorical, documentary-like Lajja, French Lover is an evolved creation. It's much better...

Mar 11, 2002 C.P. Surendran
Mumbai

Thai Pavilion, Olive Bar and Kitchen, Indigo, Zodiac Grill and Golden Dragon.

Nov 19, 2001 C.P. Surendran