In Banu Mushtaq’s "Heart Lamp", one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs.

Three writers--Orhan Pamuk, Austin Kleon, and Paul Graham--whose writings I have come across recently and admire their tips for writing well.

MC Jithin’s directional ‘Sookshmadarshini’ is a Malayalam fun thriller, moves away from a conventional police procedural when a crime happens.

Dinjith Ayyathan’s ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’, a 2024 Malayalam thriller, enmeshes emotions, familial relations, and mystery in his storytelling. Monikered after Ramayana’s Kishkindha Kaandam, where Lord ...

Mehta asks: “Despite having a functioning democracy for almost five decades, does the entire repertoire of our habits and practices outside the sphere of formal politics conduce to the formation of ...

When I watched Jeo Baby’s Malayalam movie “The Great Indian Kitchen”, I felt unease about gender dynamics that sustain Indian households.

What starts off as a dabbawalla home business in Thane’s suburbs spirals into a drug operation in this new thriller ‘Dabba Cartel’, monikered ‘Narcos Thane’. A homemaker, Raji (Shalini Pandey), her ...

‘Conclave’ is a political thriller that revolves around papal elections, which are woven together with a tinge of ambition, intrigue, envy, and mystery—keeping you at the edge of your seat. The story ...

DeepSeek and the Politics of Knowledge It seems a new AI player was in town. Founded two years ago, in 2023, the Chinese AI company DeepSeek had already achieved what would have seemed almost ...

Traffic signals halt our movement and absorb us into the world for a moment. Just as we wait for signals to start blinking, we feel, observe, smell, rationalise, envy, smile, and smirk all at once or ...

Murder Mindfully, two seemingly opposite words strung together, makes for a good TV story. At one end, there is a murder; at the other, there is mindfulness—a sense of calm one craves but struggles ...

This is the list of resources for effective creative non-fiction writing. I will keep updating this page again and again.