Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

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Portrait of a ‘fallen’ woman coming of age

The other night I had this dream that I was married. That in itself wasn’t so bad, what was bad was the person I was married to.

In love with the musty smell of old books

You can keep your Kindle. I don’t care how easy it makes things, I don’t care if it means you can travel lighter. I would rather make a bonfire of all the Kindles in the world before I gave up on used bookstores.

Prize winners come with an added charm

Okay, I’ll admit it. If given a choice of two books (or films) I have never heard of, and one has won a prize and the other hasn’t, nine times out of ten, I’ll pick the one that won the prize.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.