Asian horror rocks: Reviews of Shutters, Tell Me Something, and more

If you haven’t yet discovered Asian cinema, I urge you, do. Not only because the culture of countries like Thailand, Malayasia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Japan, etc, is so much more like our own desi culture than the western world, but because Asian cinema has truly come of age now. Take even the most reviled genre, horror. You’d think that horror films are the tackiest, most tawdry, exploitative, button-pushing, gimmicky, gore-splashing things around. And most... Read More

Flesh Songs: A Sheila Ray story

Way back in another lifetime, in a galaxy far far away, before I began writing my Ramayana retelling, and my Mahabharata retelling, and even my Devi stories, I used to write contemporary fiction. I still do. Realistic, contemporary stories about life in (mainly) Mumbai, and almost always in urban India, which is what I know best, apart from ancient India. Even crime fiction, because so much of urban living is dominated by the looming shadow of the skyscraper-like edifice of the... Read More