Vijee Venkatraman

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The Rainbow Crossing

Avi sets out to buy figs for his grandfather. Crossing the road is easy enough when the traffic policeman is on duty. But on the way back, the crossing has changed. The policeman is gone. Cars zoom forward, scooters weave around, and even cycles seem...

Drishyam vs The Devotion of Suspect X

Jeethu Joseph swapped bleak brilliance for emotional intelligence — and created a thriller India couldn’t stop remaking. Every serious movie buff who loved Drishyam has heard the rumor: its plot echoes The Devotion of Suspect X. To my mind, the more interesting question is what...

Contemporary Tamil Literature 101

The sun can set as late as 8.26 PM in the Boston summer. That evening my mind refused to wind down well after the darkness had set in. The pandemic had upended so many lives in so many ways – a slightly disrupted circadian rhythm...

Why Pregnant Women Don’t Just Topple Over

Yesterday, I ran into my professor and we talked about what else but the local IgNobel ceremony -- an annual event for us here in Cambridge, MA for 34 years -- which will be moving to Europe this fall. My professor mentioned that her husband's...

Anamika by Samanth Subramanian

I’ve been spending many, many days in the company of a man who told me an astonishing story about how he fell in love with books. When he enrolled in a university in western India for a degree in English, he realised he hadn’t actually...

I Told You So!

When the Renaissance scientist Galileo defended the heliocentric model of the Universe, he was condemned by the Catholic Church. Modern scientists, however, frequently face their fiercest opposition not from religious authorities but from within their own ranks. In his new book, I Told You So!, Matt Kaplan—a...