Half a Kilo Mixture
Four years after the anthology Madras on my Mind, A City in Stories, here is another Chennai-centric collection, but by a single author. In her debut collection of short stories, Half a Kilo Mixture, Ranjitha…
Four years after the anthology Madras on my Mind, A City in Stories, here is another Chennai-centric collection, but by a single author. In her debut collection of short stories, Half a Kilo Mixture, Ranjitha…
From the CalTech magazine. In the 1960s, just as the civil rights movement stepped up its fight for equal rights and turmoil rocked the South, a young physics professor made his own mark on…
By now, every serious movie buff who enjoyed watching the Malayalam movie Drishyam, will know that the writer-director of the film may have been inspired by the plot of The Devotion of Suspect X. The book…
Legend says that the Pandya king, the ruler of Madurai, rejoiced at the birth of his daughter. She had beautiful eyes, like a pair of chiral fish. So she he named her Meenakshi (Sanskrit for…
And so the talk turned to sons who don't take as good care of their ageing parents as they should. The blame shifts to the daughter-in-law. The son gets off the hook -- old story.…
At the age of 14, writer Dilip Kumar became a wage earner for the family. He held a series of jobs in dry-cleaning and tailoring shops, and as sales clerk in textile shops, before he…