Articles by Nandini Lal

Nandini Lal

Donald, World’s Biggest Chump

With rudeness, low cunning and barefaced dishonesty, Trump plays to an idiot’s gallery where climate...

Jun 09, 2017 Nandini Lal
Waist-Deep Mud At The Somme

Edouard Louis’s brutalising in his rough, provincial France has a direct connect to its right-wing rage....

Jun 08, 2017 Nandini Lal
Washington Diary

“You can take our official Twitter, but you’ll never take our free time!” In the times of Trump, the...

Feb 02, 2017 Nandini Lal
Curiosity Shops For Dickens Town

A joyous, clever, black satire references the entire African-American experience to make its point

Dec 08, 2016 Nandini Lal
A Flame-Top With A Torch

America’s struggling masses have made this a trickster’s finest hour

Nov 11, 2016 Nandini Lal
Post-Geography Of Modern Friendship

Confession: I took a Facebook daily-fix break before writing this. Pl like and share!

Oct 27, 2016 Nandini Lal
Fall, Vulgarian

Changing standards have condemned Trump the abuser

Oct 13, 2016 Nandini Lal
To Be Or Not To Be Ian’s Baby

McEwan’s ventriloquism gives voice to an unborn, modern Hamlet—seething, philosophising and sipping...

Sep 29, 2016 Nandini Lal
'I'm Not Here To Defend Naipaul's Politics'

The celebrated author of Liberty or Death talks about his forthcoming book on Tibet and the authorised...

Mar 10, 2003 Nandini Lal
Kaifi, My Father

Shabana Azmi spoke to Nandini Lal on her father -- Kaifi Azmi the poet, the activist, and the man.

May 17, 2002 Nandini Lal
'You Must Have The In-Built Shit-Detector'

CEO, Penguin India , MD, Dorling-Kindersley, and author of the House of Blue Mangoes spoke to Nandini Lal...

May 08, 2002 Nandini Lal
The Fall Of A Director

Kalpana Lajmi's Daman connives with the worst clichés of Indian cinema, belies its noble social message of...

May 14, 2001 Nandini Lal
Alias Disgrace: What The Urf Professor Win Means

Is it time the postmenopausal brigade of moral custodians like Ashaji and Vyjanthimalaji gave way to people...

Apr 05, 2001 Nandini Lal