The Literary City

Send us Fan Mail If there is, at all, succession in life cycles, Prasad was a child of the Roaring Twenties. And not— as many might fall to wrongly assume—a lapsed constituent of the flower power years of the 60s, nor of the decade of anti-establishment protest that was the 70s. Free of dogma, and always curious about where style is headed next, Prasad Bidapa is  Downton Abbey meets The Devil Wear...

Send us Fan Mail Anita Nair is one of India's best known authors, whose books have been translated variously and widely, into many languages and across the world. Anita and Ramjee Chandran talk about literary critics with some funny examples of the acerbic wit that gives a knowledgeable and competent literary critic the right to "biting sarcasm". Anita is candid about her reaction t...

Send us Fan Mail What do you ask a guy who is one of the country's foremost classical pianists, a Shakespeare fanboi, a theatre company founder and now, an actor on a Netflix series? Well, Ramjee Chandran asks Preetam Koilpillai everything. In a fun, laughter-speckled interview, they discuss the problems with stilted education methods and the snobbery surrounding western classical music, whic...

Send us Fan Mail As everybody knows, the principal measure of gender equality is arm wrestling. Our guest on the show today is well-known actor and TV boss, Darius "Tuffy" Taraporvala. Tuffy handles his roles easily, whether he's playing a petulant Mozart, a clueless spy Bernard Boursicot, caught in his honey trap with Shi Pei Pu, a Peking opera singer or one of the Marx Brothers. R...

Send us Fan Mail Explocity Podcasts presents The Literary City With Ramjee Chandran. This podcast is devoted to words—written, spoken or signed. Words rule everything...song lyrics, a movie script, a play, prose, poetry or a podcast. We will feature readers and writers, publishers, people of prose and poetry and playwrights. The Literary City podcasts will feature English language teachers, gramma...