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On Criticism as an Act of Jilted Love
The text of the brief talk I gave last year, at the launch of my debut book, "On Beauty: The Cinema of Sanjay Leela Bhansali"
Dec 7, 2025
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October 2025
On Flesh & A New (Hot) Short Story
I have a short story in an upcoming anthology "The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories" + some thoughts on David Szalay's brilliant "Flesh"
Oct 6, 2025
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November 2024
On Beauty & Bhansali’s Cinema—My Debut Book, On Pre-order
The book will be out in November-end. The pre-order links are live.
Nov 4, 2024
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December 2022
On The Perfect Novel; A Short 2022 Dispatch
I only picked up this novel because a friend, a dearest friend, told me of a wedding toast where the book was quoted.
Dec 30, 2022
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September 2022
On 1970s Bombay Cinema; A Long Read
The Angry Young Man and the Thinking Woman, between parallel cinema and the thudding success of a mythological drama.
Sep 28, 2022
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August 2022
On The Satanic Verses
Thinking of Rushdie this Independence Day.
Aug 15, 2022
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April 2022
On The Film That Must Not Be Named
To tell a story of violence, you have to have an unusual sensitivity to not replicate that same violence, that same poison.
Apr 25, 2022
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February 2022
On Gangubai Kathiawadi And Sex Work
Embedding the movie in the context of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's art-artifice
Feb 28, 2022
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On Gehraiyaan's Narrative Trickery
Digging deeper, looking at how the film uses death, infidelity, and trauma.
Feb 14, 2022
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On The Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022) Debates
The singer who began her career in 1942 passed away yesterday. How to produce a coherent, complex, and meaningful articulation of her legacy?
Feb 7, 2022
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January 2022
On Nostalgia For The College Days
Hridayam, a Malayalam film, asks you to participate in its project of eliciting nostalgia, even if it does so with shameless, predictable genre…
Jan 24, 2022
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On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act
Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?
Jan 17, 2022
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