The power of the novels The Great Gatsby and The Reluctant Fundamentalist is in their brevity, but what is unsaid - left to the reader's imagination - is possibly what attracts film makers to them
If a parrot is tamed over a long period, it loses its bite and the habit of stretching its wings. The CBI's feathers were trimmed from the start, its beak trained to give friendly pecks to its masters
With the cunning of a master thief, Mohsin Hamid in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has stolen the form of a self-improvement guide with chapter heads that alternate between the mundane and the
Equally admired and loathed, both Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher have been so often memorialised in biography, novels and film that it's difficult to separate fact from fiction
Against a background of chronic political and economic instability in Italy, the marines have acquired a mythic status
If you want a whiff of old Lucknow, you could turn a corner at Qaisar Bagh and enter the gracefully restored home of filmmaker, artist and musical impresario Muzaffar Ali
