Borgub's Lair

Happy Birthday, Superman

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:48:08 +0530

Superman turned 70 this month... and wouldn't you know it, he's not aged a day on celluloid - in fact he's gone back in time - at least judging by

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:51 +0530

Before you start frothing at the mouth, all you self-declared guardians of all that's pure, it's a quote from Heroes (Tagline Season 1...But I digress.) Why cheerleaders are the

Shock and Horror

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:16:14 +0530

A 15 year old is raped and murdered ... preyed upon in her youth, in her weakness. Preyed upon by a society whose fabric has been so badly decimated that

2 feet from Aamir … and other Literary Stories

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:26:54 +0530

So you don't exactly expect to see Aamir Khan at a literature festival - that too, in Jaipur. Sure, he was scheduled to "hold a session" with Tehelka Features Editor

"Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters..."

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:17:42 +0530

Every once in a while, someone writes a book that's crying out to be written - but even more, crying out to be read... Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters - The

"Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters..."

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:17:42 +0530
Every once in a while, someone writes a book that's crying out to be written - but even more, crying out to be read... Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters - The

Spiritual healing?

editor@ibnlive.com — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:12:55 +0530
This is probably just ASKING for trouble in these religiously charged times, what with national debate revolving around the authenticity of claims that Ram may have been a mythical figure...

Better...(the Hippocratic Oath Reviewed)

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:58:56 +0530
Atul Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon of Indian origin, practising in Boston. So what makes his latest book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance relevant to us half

Harry Potter & The Final Review

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:49:01 +0530
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS It begins with death. Right there in black and white in the first chapter of The Deathly Hallows. And it ends with death...and the

I'm Ok...You're Ok...With Harry or Without

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:31:58 +0530
I think I have to say this right at the outset...whether you love Harry Potter or can't stand him, let it go! Live and let live. The world's moved to

After Dark

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:14:42 +0530
Japanese author Haruki Murakami's latest novel, After Dark, tracks its main characters from 11.56 pm one night to 6.52 am the next day... But of course it doesn't feel like

What Goes Around...

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:29:53 +0530
It's not surprising that not much of a fuss has been made about Justin Timberlake's latest video - not surprising because of the changing face of the corporate mass-marketed cross-promoted

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:08:00 +0530
REVIEW: The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid Published by Penguin/Viking Price: Rs 295/- Now here's a book that pulls in you in from the get

Inhaling the Mahatma - Review

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:38:01 +0530
REVIEW Inhaling the Mahatma by Christopher Kremmer It's a catchy title, and there are clever little quotes - the back flap has "When a Gandhi dies, nobody is safe",

Why a Lit Fest in Jaipur, you ask?!

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:25:56 +0530
What's the point of a literary festival? Ostensibly it's a meeting ground for authors and publishing moguls and intellectuals, and let's not forget, their fans and...the media. Ah,

What do you mean Happy New Year?

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:56:31 +0530
What a miserable year to wake up to. It's a year where we're all talking child abuse and perversity and serial killing. But it's miserable on so many levels, I

Through the Looking Glass: Will Dalrymple's Rising

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:12:53 +0530
The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple It's hard to know where to begin...everyone's got a favourite Dalrymple, whether it's City of Djinns, or In Xanadu, or even White Mughals...

Tellin' Everybody...

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:02:30 +0530
I just met two sets of adoptive parents for a lifestyle story on adoption - and of course while you're busy looking at things in terms of "case studies", you

Sacred Games...Up Close and Personal

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:56:54 +0530
It took Vikram Chandra some seven years to write Sacred Games, currently being touted as the big Indian release of the year. And they're not kidding about the "big" -

Review: Shooting Water

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:37:49 +0530
Shooting Water Author: Devyani Saltzman Publisher: Penguin India Price: Rs 295/- Shooting Water is an emotional, even turbulent ride. Sure, you'll probably start it with some amount of scepticism.

Review: Iran Awakening

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:14:18 +0530
Iran Awakening From Prison to Peace Prize: One Woman's Struggle at the Crossroads of History By Shirin Ebadi Random House Shirin Ebadi is of course now a known name

Missing the Wood for the Trees

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:37:46 +0530
Right now, there's no denying it, the big news is Mahajan Jr's fall from grace. Though the powers that be have of course known all along about young Rahul's propensity

We've come a long way, baby

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 27 May 2006 03:11:20 +0530
Yes, Aamir Khan is back!! All over the place and not too shabby either...Is it me, or is he quite the articulate star?! I particularly admire the way he uses

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Went Wild...Get a life!

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 01 May 2006 08:45:31 +0530
So, the plagiarism debate has been done to death, you think? With anyone and everyone waxing eloquent on how it's immoral/unethical/plain stupid, or was Kaavya Viswanathan just a poor young

of fashion and fillers

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:27:54 +0530
Politics and death and destruction dominate, as always. The fashion week is finally over, thank god, people can finally get back to talking about babies or the heat or whatever

The unholy art of celebration

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:35:46 +0530
Oh doesn't everyone hate to be a party-pooper. You never wnat to be the loser in the corner, who doesn't know how to have a good time. Me, I have

Missing the bush(es) for the trees

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:58:52 +0530
So much drama, so much hype!! Yes President Bush was here...But no the world didn't stop for a minute, let alone a day. He didn't have the good sense to

Chicken little

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:33:26 +0530
This bird flu panic is beginning to get me down. Yes, we know the H5N1 bird flu virus has the potential (POTENTIAL) to perhaps mutate and combine with the human

Jet, Set, GO!!!

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:15:22 +0530
So the Book Fair is on, it's all madness, fun and excitement, but after you're done trudging from hall 1 to hall 18 (ALL the way across Pragati Maidan) for

Technicolour and Loving It

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:49:00 +0530
Brokeback Mountain is sweeping awards all over the place and I'm already waiting to get tickets to see it. Just read it's based on a short story by Annie Proulx

Books, covers, bursting blood vessels

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:06:46 +0530
Karan Thapar's book was released yesterday...He said some interesting, not quite self-effacing things, but one of the things that struck me was when he said that one shouldn't judge a

The (second to) Last of the Mohicans

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:15:07 +0530
Borgub is a Nordic stone goddess (no, not troll!) Goddess, or god, even, why bother with gender when you're divine. But unfortunately Borgub's Lair is no longer the fjords of

Bigger, Faster, Newer!!....Yawn

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 06:13:54 +0530
It's a brand new year!! Well, not brand new but still not dusty yet around the edges. A time when really anything seems possible...not for long though, ha! The crime

Don't hold your breath

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:24:50 +0530
We're not safe anymore. Noone, nowhere. Bad guys worldwide have had the last laugh. When professors will think twice before going for academic conferences, far from the so-far clearly demarcated

On the reindeer trail

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:04:22 +0530
NORAD might have tracked Santa this Christmas, but I'm not so sure about his living in Reykjavik. I know for a fact that he set up home in Rovaniemi, bang

Breaking out the bubbly

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:22:27 +0530
So another year's drawing to a close, and normally that would panic me no end, Bridget Jones-style. A quarter of a century next year and I'm definitely freezing the sands

"Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters..."

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:00:00 +0530
Every once in a while, someone writes a book that's crying out to be written - but even more, crying out to be read... Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters - The