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Showing posts with label detective fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label detective fiction. Show all posts
4 January 2024

Book Review: Anuja Chauhan's 'Club You To Death'

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Decided to update the blog in the new year, with pieces I've written in the interim. This is a book review I did for Scroll in 2021 and ...
2 August 2020

In the dark of the night

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My Mirror column: The absorbing Raat Akeli Hai stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a UP cop learning a little about himself as he unravels a web...
10 July 2017

Bombay Confidential

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My Mirror column : In a murder mystery set in the film industry 40 years ago, the crime writer HRF Keating tapped into our preoccupati...
7 December 2016

At the scene of the crime

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My Mirror column . Watching Kahaani 2 triggers a retrospective look at the city’s role in Vidya Balan’s actorly career. Vidya B...
4 October 2015

The Turn of the Screw

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My column in today's Mumbai Mirror : Meghna Gulzar's gripping filmic recreation of the Hemraj-Aarushi Talwar double murder ...
7 April 2015

Much too fast and furious

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My Mirror column on Sunday: Dibakar Banerjee's contemporary spin on a 1940s Bengali sleuth is packed full of grungy period detail, ...
13 July 2014

Woman, Uninterrupted

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Today's Mumbai Mirror column: Vidya Balan's free-spirited performances have opened up a space in our cinema where not just she, b...
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7 October 2012

The Case of the Punjabi Detective

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My Asian Age piece on the mystery writer Tarquin Hall and his wonderful creation: the portly Delhi detective, Vish Puri.  When the fath...
30 January 2012

Mumbai Rollercoasters - Not One But Three

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A review of three 'young adult' thrillers, published in yesterday's Asian Age .    Mumbai has long been the favourite Indi...
1 May 2011

And Then There Were Two: a review of Ibne Safi's The Laughing Corpse & HRF Keating's Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart

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The recent reissue of two detective fiction series reminds you of all that is wonderful about the genre TWO EXTREMELY popular detective f...