Subramanian is a Newcastle-based writer
August 06, 2014 00:54 IST
Nowhere good, if two recent sci-fi films are to be believed.
July 15, 2013 01:36 IST
The number of non-white characters played by non-white actors in Hollywood films is still smaller than it should be
June 02, 2012 02:16 IST
A thorough exploration of surrogacy,but a half-hearted thriller
March 31, 2012 03:55 IST
The personal,the impersonal and a Bollywood ending in Bombay
March 21, 2012 00:57 IST
The Hunger Games is also about teens struggling against authority
March 03, 2012 00:07 IST
This book manages to convey sense and nonsense with too few words
January 28, 2012 03:16 IST
Are women not as funny as men? Two memoirs that laugh at that old question
January 07, 2012 03:58 IST
Kunal Basus new novel is about an unusual search for a cure for syphilis
December 03, 2011 00:06 IST
The carnival does not rise above some gorgeous scenes
October 29, 2011 03:17 IST
Slave trade doesnt quite fit into Terry Pratchetts Discworld
October 15, 2011 00:07 IST
Michael Ondaatje turns a voyage into an unusual coming-of-age tale
September 24, 2011 03:10 IST
An outstanding novel about a teenager who wants to save the world
April 30, 2011 02:51 IST
Beyond fairies and fandom,this is overwhelmingly a book about books
December 04, 2010 01:29 IST
A fantasy crime thriller unravels in a Joburg ghetto peopled by ex-convicts and their animal familiars.
November 13, 2010 05:34 IST
In a way all fairy tales are retellings.
October 16, 2010 02:15 IST
Vampires,werewolves and a large-nosed girl in Victorian London. It is gloriously ridiculous.
August 28, 2010 23:47 IST
An odd little,oddly satisfying book about fabulous rebellions
June 26, 2010 22:51 IST
In her introduction to The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,Elif Batuman says of Cervantes Don Quixote that he had broken the binary of life and literature....
May 29, 2010 00:40 IST
The main attraction for visitors to Londons Darwin Centre is a perfectly preserved giant squid,Architeuthis dux (Archie to those who work there)....
June 11, 2009 00:02 IST
The new Star Trek movie is less about the original geeky franchise and more about human drama
