Known Turf

When was the last time you read a story that well and truly blew your mind?I suppose, in order to answer that question, you’d have to first consider what it means to have your mind blown? To me, it means coming upon a story that makes me reconsider the...

Imagine then, my perplexity when I found myself trudgingfrom hotel to hotel, baggage in tow, and my friend refusing to check inanywhere. The rooms looked fine to me, the hotels reasonably secure. What couldbe the matter? At the third hotel, my friend...

'Annie Zaidi’s The Comeback is about one man’s journey from self-absorption to consideration for others staged as an ode to theatre as an artform. It asks important questions of popularity, selfishness, stoicism and leadership, about life on social media...

Extract from a new essay on representation of Muslims (Muslim men in particular) in Hindi movies:  In and of itself, the Muslim-as-terrorist trope would be less damaging were it not for a quiet lie surrounding these narratives. The lie is that only Muslims...