One night in January 2014, when my mother thought I was preparing for my high school final exams, I watched the Indian film Party (1984).

“Music is an endless sea. I am a child on its shore, gazing at it in wonder. To stand here and look at the waves alone is a boon, a joy...

“Skool acording to headmaster’s pi-jaw is like LIFE chiz if that is the case wot is the use of going on?”

This story begins with the Muñoz sisters: Lucía, Lola, Pilar and (later) Rocío. The daughters of Spanish flamenco guitarist El Tomate...

In 2015, after their attempt at a celebrity roast attracted a lot of controversy, Indian comedy group All India Bakchod issued...

As I write this, the coronavirus pandemic has indefinitely halted the world in its tracks, much like the pause button on a particularly...

As title characters go, Michael Caine’s Alfie (1966) falls somewhere between Dustin Hoffman’s The Graduate (1967) and Charles Denner’s The..

Every so often, you get a song that encapsulates a film (or a play, or even a book) perfectly; rarely does the same song transcend this...

Four years separate my late-night discovery of Koyaanisqatsi (1982) – one of the most cathartic works of art I know – and its screening...

I rediscovered Lily Allen’s music earlier this month, and ended up reading her memoir My Thoughts Exactly. It’s one of the better...

It’s 1981. Bombay-based session musician Charanjit Singh has just gotten his hands on some new Roland gear: a Jupiter 8 synthesizer...

In my previous incarnation as a literature major, I had to read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for a class. I rather snidely suggested...

The story of a song that took on the music press and probably killed its creators' careers.

In the beginning, there was Indus Creed/Rock Machine, the first Indian rock band to achieve international success. Then there were scores...

“How many kilometres from Washington D.C. to Miami Beach?”

My room in the dorm might be the most racially diverse one on campus. Of us three roommates, one is African-American, one is Japanese...

Almost all pop music is about romantic heterosexual love, with constantly shifting emphasis on each of those three words. Considering our...

I have always felt there are more good readers than good writers in this world. And, like Frantz Fanon, now that I have said it, I have...