Sublime

I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and

In February of this year (2017), ‘The Indian Express’ announced that the Indian Council of Cultural Relations was to host a seminar dedicated to Dara.

But I think, ultimately, my songs are gifts to her and I think her dresses are gifts to me. We are both waving to each other, through our work, that we are both still present in the world.

some nights I would be covered in the manic spittle from Pacino’s endless monologues, which I imagined a kind of literal theatrical baptism.

Dr Jaffery said that very few people in Delhi now wanted to study classical Persian, the language which, like French in Imperial Russia, had for centuries been the first tongue of every educated Delhi-wallah. ‘No one has any interest in the classics today,’ he said. ‘If they read at all, they read trash from America. They have no idea what they are

The Satanic Verses was my first experience of both magical realism and metafiction.