Parth Pandya reviews Salman Rushdie’s latest ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights’, calling it a work of uncommon and unabashed beauty.
Handwritten letters have played a big role in Hindi films. Parth Pandya writes a humourous piece on the use of the letter as a plot device in Bollywood. Read on.
Parth Pandya writes a ghazal (a poetic form with origins in Arabic poetry) in English, attempting to stay with the rules of the form and bringing forth the beauty of expression that a ghazal uniquely allows.
It’s not an uncommon sight to see an Indian parent running behind her child in a bid to feed the kid a few morsels of food. Parth Pandya offers a humourous take on this amusing aspect of Indian parenting.
It’s music that comes to the rescue of a person stranded in the middle of a thick traffic jam and bogged down by frustration. Parth Pandya captures the moments of musical escape in a poem.
Uday has three hours for himself between teaching at an arts college and taking tuition for Mr. Ishwar’s son. What does he do during those three hours every day? Parth Pandya’s story tells you more.
Parenting is no easy task and at every stage of the child’s life, the job only gets harder, says Parth Pandya in his poem.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE As the nation recovers from India’s loss to Australia in the cricket World Cup, Parth Pandya, a devoted fan, remembers the other unsuccessful tales of the Indian cricket team in the biggest cricket tournament.
THE LOUNGE | STORYBOARD It’s the age of the multiplex when it comes to movie-watching in India today. The popular predecessors of the multiplex, the single screen theaters, are now on their way out. Parth Pandya rues the fast-approaching end of a memorable episode in the lives of movie-goers, and recalls some fond moments associated with single screens.