Thirty letters in my name

My Name is Khan (MNIK) is one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year. The embarrassing sentimentality of its scenes, which promote a chees...

For me, the most delightful moment in the new movie Ishqiya is the scene that goes with the melodious Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji – crudely “The...

1. The two stories I’ll be linking to in this post have something in common: the attempt to use “markets” to solve big problems. First, PBS ...

The death in question is of the young Neda Agha Sultan, who was out on the streets of Tehran protesting, after the controversial election el...

In June 2007, I saw a preview of Dinner With The President , a documentary about democracy in Pakistan. I’ve been looking for the movie ever...

1. I've always put in a good word for the documentaries of Frontline , but now I've found another terrific source. This too a PBS p...

Once again, PBS Frontline excels with its superb documentaries. A couple of recent ones: The Choice , a deep analysis of the political back...

I found Om Shanti Om immensely entertaining. The movie was needlessly long and wallowed in precisely the sort of mushy, sentimental stuff i...

It’s been five years since the Iraq war, and a lot has been written about the subject. But if you want a comprehensive one-stop overview, be...

Click on the links below to see the videos on which this post is based: Link 1 and Link 2. The picture to the left is of the famous Nigeri...

While traveling in Washington DC for a few days last week, I attended an event at the National Archives , where short clips from different d...

Jhumpa Lahiri , author of the The Namesake , talks about her feelings upon seeing Mira Nair 's movie adaptation of her novel: "I ...

I Lost Boys of Sudan is a documentary that follows the stories of two orphaned Sudanese refugee youth, Peter and Santino, from the time jus...

A Frontline four-part series on AIDS . The preview calls it "The most important scientific and political story of our time". With ...

The last time I checked on Amazon, no one had reviewed The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature . But that may be because the book is a ...