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The Guide’s trouble with the Censor Board

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 06, 20161 mins

If you thought Bollywood’s troubles with the Censor Board are a recent phenomenon, think again. R.K. Narayan recounts, in The Writerly Life, his experience with the movie making process of The Guide…

Lessons from Under the Banyan Tree

Vishy KurugantiMarch 16, 20124 mins

Pic: Courtesy Amazon.co.uk R.K. Narayan is my favorite Indian writer. I don’t know who is second on my list… in any case it’s not germane to this blog post. Under the Banyan Tree is a collection of…

R.K.Narayan’s Coffee Worries

Vishy KurugantiMarch 16, 20114 mins

South Indian filter coffe (Pic: courtesy saffrontail.blogspot.com) Every now and then, one reads an article, a book or prose and it’s not sufficient merely to shout from the ramparts “Buy/borrow the…

100 Days in Bangalore (Part 1)

Vishy KurugantiDecember 13, 20086 mins

Vidhana Soudha (Pic: courtesy tripadvisor.com.sg) I had planned to write this post sometime back – a retrospective kinda post providing a snapshot of the family’s settling down process – my job, kids…

The two types of Indian immigrants

Vishy KurugantiJune 04, 20083 mins

“When an Indian professional becomes a ‘Non-Resident Indian’ in the United States , he soon starts suffering from a strange disease. The symptoms are a fixture of restlessness,anxiety, hope and…

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