A Q&A with novelist Vikas Swarup: ‘India’s complexity needs a multi-layered perspective’

‘Six Suspects’ is the basis for the Disney+ Hotstar series ‘The Great Indian Murder’.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Feb 02, 2022 · 08:45 am

Here is a primer on Netflix’s ‘Bard of Blood’, based on Bilal Siddiqi’s novel

The Red Chillies Entertainment production stars Emraan Hashmi, Vineet Kumar Singh, Kirti Kulhari and Sobhita Dhulipala.

Soumya Rao

· Oct 15, 2018 · 09:15 am

How ‘Sacred Games’ stays true to the source novel but also turns it on its head

The show starring Saif Ali Khan, Radhika Apte and Nawazuddin Siddiqui makes some clever tweaks to Vikram Chandra’s 2006 novel (spoiler alert).

Soumya Rao

· Jul 10, 2018 · 08:15 am

From book to film, William Dalrymple’s ‘The White Mughal’ disrupts the standard narrative

This historical tale set in Hyderabad, for all its violins, offers yet another story at odds with the official version of India.

Jonathan Gil Harris

· Mar 31, 2016 · 08:30 am

With ‘Ek Tha Chandar, Ek Thi Sudha’, the literary TV show gets a makeover

Manish Gaekwad

· Sep 24, 2015 · 07:34 pm