Posted in Blog on Oct 27th, 2005
The passage that follows was written by me as an Author’s Note to the Japanese edition of Prince of Ayodhya. It’s unedited as yet, and of course, when published it will appear in Japanese, translated by the esteemable Yutaka Ohshima, who is almost single-handedly responsible for the Japanese editions of my Ramayana series. Thank you, […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 24th, 2005
If M. Night Shyamalan ever makes a sequel to The Sixth Sense, he should seriously consider adapting Lost Boys. Or has he already? The very fact that Lost Boys was first published way back in 1992, years before Shyamalan made his dazzling debut that shot to the top of the biggest all-time grossers in Hollywood […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 18th, 2005
This one’s a blast from the past. An old short story I wrote like, twenty years ago.
I had forgotten all about it, until I found it tucked away in a long-forgotten website run by an old friend. I didn’t even remember giving it to him back when he started the site.
There are a […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 13th, 2005
A reporter from Times of India, New Delhi, Sunaina Kumar, called me thrice in the past month, asking for the usual ‘quotable quotes’ about the books and authors nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2005.
Since I’d read several of the books in the running, I commented on various titles. You can read my review of […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 12th, 2005
Not many movies stand the test of time. Even fewer horror movies do. Horror movies are notoriously cheap on production and quality, and viewed ten or twenty years later, they’re often more campy than chilling. You could actually get a bunch of friends your age together at Halloween, sit down with a lot of beverages […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 11th, 2005
This interview first appeared as part of my Book Chaat series on Rediff.com
An American by birth and nationality, Lee Siegel is no foreigner to India in the literary sense. He’s a trained magician and professor of Indian religions at the University of Chicago. Formerly, he was with the University of Hawaii, where he penned Net […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 11th, 2005
Discovered this very nice blog. No, it’s not by Sage Narada, but if the great voluble seer was around today, perhaps this is what his blog might have been like!
It’s a blog dedicated to retelling the stories of Srimad Bhagvatam, which, as you probably know already, was a minor collection of mythological tales from the […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 11th, 2005
When I first read about the American romance publisher Harlequin starting a fantasy line, I wasn’t sure whether to be thrilled or wary. After all, category romances are no longer the most exciting reads. Even the sales figures reflect that fact, with ‘big’ multi-character novels like The Ya-Ya Sisterhood and crossover genre novels like the […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 8th, 2005
Hi there. It’s only a few days to the VORTAL launch, and I’m trying to vary the contents of this blog from my recent run of reviews, reviews, and more reviews.
So I decided to post a couple of reviews for a change–but not by me, this time. They’re reader reviews culled from the many emails […]
Posted in Blog on Oct 7th, 2005
Caroline: Kate Hudson
Violet: Gena Rowlands
Ben: John Hurt
Luke: Peter Sarsgaard
Jill: Joy Bryant
Papa Justify: Ronald McCall
Mama Cynthia: Maxine Barnett
Hallie: Fahnlohnee Harris
Bayou Woman: Marion Zinser
Universal presents a film directed by Iain Softley.
Written by Ehren Kruger.
Running time: 104 minutes.
Rated PG (for violence, disturing images, some partial nudity and thematic material).
You don’t have to be Southern to enjoy Southern Gothic. […]
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