Nine Lives Review – Heartrending Indian Stories

Maybe…it is only those of us who have no eyes that can see through the lure of maya, and glimpse reality for what it is. – Kanai, the blind minstrel in Nine Lives, p.246 A few days back, we got William Dalrymple’s well received book Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India […]

We are Family is We are Garbage, Say Critics

We are Family Review – Disgustingly Bad Folks, our hopes have been dashed on the altar of Bollywood’s  incompetence. Here we were fondly hoping that this weekend would be a joyous affair but, alas, man proposes, Bollywood disposes. Several Indian critics have buggered the latest Karan Johar production We are Family (directed by Sidharth Malhotra). […]