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Reading At the End of the World: Daisy Jones & The Six
Midway through reading Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s oral history of a fictional rock and roll band from the 70s, I feel this desperate urge to pause and listen to the Fleetwood Mac...
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The Rahman Quiz : Answers
The What: Hey, guess what! I am posting answers to a bunch of questions I asked seven years ago. The What. The. Fuck: Yeah, I know. I have this bad habit of starting stuff and never finishing ’em. You...
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A Jin Wong Appreciation Post
So I recently read the first two parts of the Legends of the Condor Heroes novel, which are considered the Chinese equivalent of Lord of the Rings. Written in Chinese by the writer Louis Cha under the...
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A Shannon Chakraborty Appreciation Post
TLDR: Best fantasy series I have read in the recent past, highly recommend. So the Daevabad Trilogy caught my eye because of two main reasons: The eye-catching cover of City of Brass, the first book,...
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A Scott Pilgrim 10th Anniversary Appreciation Post
Today morning, this came up on my YouTube Feed. While the placeholder image on the video says “Full Interview”, it’s actually the reading of the complete movie Scott Pilgrim vs The World, with...
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A Food Novel: The Pasha of Cuisine
If there is one constant thread in my life, it is this realization that one thing leads to another, in the best possible way. Consider, for example, that after reading and gushing over the third book...
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Gods of Jade and Shadow
OK, so here’s a book that reminds me of Neil Gaiman a lot. Part of it is the subject matter. The story is almost a primal narrative, brimming with character and story tropes spanning cultures. There...
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Reading At the End of the World: The Drifting Classroom
There are a few names that immediately come to mind when you say “horror manga” — Junji Ito, Suehiro Maruo, Hideshi Hino, and Kazuo Umezu (or Umezz, if you prefer). Of these, Umezu is the oldest, born...
View ArticleOn PK Mishra, The Forgotten Hero of Dubbed Lyrics
This post has been in my drafts for ages. I was trying to get citations on certain facts, but that would have required months of burrowing through old issues of Filmfare and Stardust magazines and...
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It’s Time to Blow The City/ Get Everybody and The Stuff Together
Once upon a time, a decade and a half ago, to be precise, I was introduced to the work of composer Yoko Kanno, and spent endless hours swimming in her music. The soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop was one of...
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