Post Tagged with: "Shougat Dasgupta"

[ Film Review ] The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The Great Gatsby

Nair and Luhrmann have not made bad movies. But as interpretations of their source material both films...  

Messiah, or Very Naughty Boy?

JM Coetzee’s 'The Childhood of Jesus' asks questions about faith, memory, sex, vegetarianism and the pooness of...  

The Lure of Filthy Lucre

A new book from the writer of The Reluctant Fundamentalist  

What Will Survive of Us is Love

If Pakistani novelists appear to be writing with great urgency, it is because there is much at...  

Make Room for Disrespect

Is literature above politics? Are the responsibilities of poets and novelists limited to their art, or must...  

Leading the Idiocracy

Chetan Bhagat is our great ‘unthinker’, as sure a representative of ‘new India’ as the khadi-clad...  

Art or Artifice?

Caught in two minds, Shougat Dasgupta wonders if Gangs of Wasseypur is a triumph of form or...  

If he builds it, they will ooh!

Thomas Heatherwick has an eye for the spectacular. Just check out the cauldron he designed for Olympics...  

Is literature above politics?

Are the responsibilities of poets and novelists limited to their art, or must they be a voice...  

Déjà Vu All Over Again

William Dalrymple talks to Shougat Dasgupta about the first abject British defeat and the startling current parallels  

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