Wednesday, Oct 20, 2021
Jan 12, 2015
Mukul Kesavan A hundred essential books, chosen by our jury, and the reasons they should be read—and reread
Dec 29, 2012 Nilanjana S. Roy That girl, the one without the name. The one just like us. The one whose battered body stood for all the...
Jun 20, 2011
Nilanjana Roy
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Maqbool Fida Husain
Husain’s canvases, absorbent of India, were coloured by the times
Mar 07, 2011
Nilanjana S. Roy Finally, it’s the fabled grime that gives street food its defining sharpness
Jan 24, 2011
Nilanjana S. Roy The warm, sensitive stud has morphed into a handsome handyman but Mr Right is still a fantasy
Dec 27, 2010
Nilanjana S. Roy It is relatively easy to write about remote, far-off places—Timbuktu or Ulan Bator rather than Delhi,...
Jan 11, 2010
Nilanjana S. Roy A national dish for India? Cut out the curry, the dosa has searing ambitions.
Aug 20, 2007
Nilanjana S. Roy From puri-aloo to McAloo Tikki burger, from Raj to rajma, fusion to confusion, we have run the gustatory...
Jul 17, 2007 Nilanjana S. Roy Older and wiser, none of us want to be Modesty Blaise any more. Instead, we'll settle for making war, money...
Oct 16, 2006
Nilanjana S. Roy The pen became an abstract blade. And as it slashed through the undergrowth, the vegetation kept changing.
Jun 26, 2006
Nilanjana S. Roy It is the stories where human lives stray plausibly, but irrevocably, into surrealist territory, while...
May 12, 2006 Nilanjana S. Roy I gave up on trying to do the Bombay scene - what was the point when it was so Delhi?
Mar 03, 2006 Nilanjana S. Roy A flock of bookish birds: Restless Chattering Starlings, Feather-Brained Cuckoos, Bibulous Bulbuls, Culture...
Feb 03, 2006 Nilanjana S. Roy My guests have been hooted at, had obscene gestures made at them, and showered with muck. "Really," they say...
Jun 20, 2005
Nilanjana S. Roy In the heart of darkness, Deb finds a new set of horsemen for the apocalypse: dereliction, amnesia,...
Jan 31, 2005
Nilanjana S. Roy Baldwin's ability to bring her characters to life has never been in question and it reigns supreme now...
Apr 05, 2004
Nilanjana S. Roy It has few surprises, but many insights and the small joys that arise from making new discoveries in an...
Mar 02, 2004 Nilanjana S. Roy "In my mother's house and my grandmother's house, meals came in two varieties: Indian and English. Between...
Dec 08, 2003
Nilanjana S. Roy There are few sensations worse than reading a book with anticipation and realising that the package should...
Aug 04, 2003
Nilanjana S. Roy Irritants break the flow of concentration; instead of the urgency and the barely suppressed energy of the...
