Not the Perfect Murder: HRF Keating’s Breaking and Entering

This review first appeared in India Today, several years ago. What I didn’t mention in the review, as it didn’t seem relevant, was that I had met Keating a few years earlier. In fact, he had recommended me strongly to a British literary agent who flew down to Mumbai to sign me up, convinced (based on her reading of Vertigo and my other books) that I was going to be the Next Big Thing. As it turned out, I didn’t become the Next Big Anything. Partly because she... Read More

The Ludlum Identity: Obit of a spy-fi master and other odd odds and ends

It’s been a movie-full week. Reason being my son finished his ICSE boards, my daughter recovered from an attack of viral flu, and one of my best friends had a much-needed break between schedules of the film he’s working on (the film’s directed by another mutual friend, John Mathew Mathan of Sarfarosh fame). So the past week I saw a number of movies, mostly on DVD. There was the very hilarious Harold And Kumar Go To Whitecastle. Did I mention this before? (Must... Read More