PinnedTOP GUN: MAVERICK the movie, revisiting Generation X’s cult classic.How the Top Gun sequel invokes nostalgia for the nineteen eighties when the original movie was released.Jun 13, 2022Jun 13, 2022
PinnedThe Unreliable Narrator/RecipeI am a novice fiction writer and forgive me for being immodest but somewhat of an ace baker. Until yesterday, I hadn’t quite understood…Apr 7, 20211Apr 7, 20211
My Great Train Ride Across New EnglandFriends and family met my decision to travel to Vermont from Manhattan with varying degrees of incredulity.Sep 13, 2021Sep 13, 2021
How I took solace in writing historical fiction during the pandemicIn May, before I’d been vaccinated against Coronavirus and was leading a restricted social life, a friend asked me if writing historical…Sep 9, 2021Sep 9, 2021
The Great New York City CarnivalAs I sip on my lukewarm coffee, I peer up from my opened novel. The Carousel in mid-town Manhattan’s Bryant Park has come to a gentle halt…Aug 30, 2021Aug 30, 2021
M M Kayes Deccan sojournThe Secunderabad Club website boasts that M. M. Kaye, author of the acclaimed Far Pavilions, painted the murals on the walls of its mixed…Jun 18, 2021Jun 18, 2021
Of revelations and religious initiationsWhile on a holiday in the town of Selçuk, Turkey seven years ago, a framed photograph of a little boy in white fur-trimmed regalia, scepter…May 2, 2021May 2, 2021
The etymology of the word ‘Ramadan’And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread [of night]. Then complete the fast until…Apr 12, 2021Apr 12, 2021
Prince Philip-a rare breed of masculinityAt noon GMT yesterday, guns boomed across seven locations in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, and on two Royal Navy Ships somewhere in the…Apr 11, 2021Apr 11, 2021
