Posts Tagged With: Rant
Salman Rushdie and the Jaipur Literature Festival
This is rare. I’m so livid that I don’t actually know how to start. I also wrote “know” as “no” just now. It really is all going to hell. Earlier this month, I cancelled my tickets to Jaipur. I was going to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) but ultimately I decided against it because [...]
Lost Cause
Last month, I decided that I would shake off the sloth of the past … oh, about year and a half, and get with the program again. Or at least get with as much of the program as I can. So I vowed that I would, come first September, head into town and see all [...]
Many Reservations
Prakash Jha’s new film “Aarakshan” (trans. “Reservation”) has been banned in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. The fear is that the film, which purports to be about reserved quotas in educational institutions, will inflame lower caste viewers and then there will be riots, looting and mayhem. This was so not necessary. No one who [...]
Blind Side
Ok, someone should have slapped some sense into me for the post below, in which I got on my high horse and said I didn’t think Danny Boyle’s “Frankenstein” was up to the mark. Where the hell do I get off being critical about a National Theatre production when the local fare is “The Sound [...]
E for Envy
Alright. Rant ahead because really, I should just get this out of my system. So I was reading Tishani Doshi’s “The Pleasure Seekers” and by the time I’d reached page 50, I wasn’t terribly gripped by the novel but it’s not appalling either and idly I put her name into Google. There was an interview [...]
Cheek and Chawl
The headline to this post on Cinematical says “Danny Boyle Admits ‘Slumdog’ Kids Were Exploited“. Please gasp. That’s why the words “admits” and “exploited” have been used. Because if you do read till the end of the post, then you can see precise what Boyle has “admitted” to, which is: …you exploit everyone in a [...]
Southern discomfort
I’ve read this article three times now and each time I’m a little more bamboozled that The Hindu would carry it. Either the greater Chennai region got hypnotised by an evil extraterrestrial, or it got sucked into a time warp (again the work of an evil extraterrestrial, surely) while the rest of India was being [...]
Royally pissed
In Disney’s most recent bid to be modern and cosmopolitan, “The Princess and the Frog“, the princess actually appears at the end, by which I mean that the little black girl who is the heroine of the story needs to marry a prince in order to fulfill the movie’s title. However, much of the movie [...]
What’s in a Name?
This morning, when a friend of mine sent me a text message screaming, “SUPPORT MNIK!”, I sent her a gory description of what happens to minks in the process of going from animal to fur coat. Which led to her writing back, “Get with the program.” So I’m probably the only person in Mumbai who [...]
Talking trash
Having spent a few hours at my first Jaipur Literature Festival, I’m very sure of two things. One, having walked into a loo at the precise moment when Tina Brown was in it – hey, she shouldn’t have kept the doors parted and unlatched – my chances of landing a gig with The Daily Beast [...]
World Domination
