Film

"The Lunchbox" at Berkeley Rep: world premiere of a musical play

The Lunchbox, the film It is a truth universally acknowledged that dabbas (lunchboxes) in the famed Mumbai dabbawalla system do not get mixed up. Over a hundred thousand dabbas are transferred every day using a manual transfer process, and always reach their intended recipient. The system is so efficient that even Harvard Business School did a case study on it. For his 2013 film The Lunchbox, Director Ritesh Batra imagined the unthinkable: a dabba mix-up. The film is a soulfu

Jun 83 min read

Short Takes October 2025

More Short Takes: on a literary journal, a film, a Berkeley Coffee Shop, and two novels translated from Malayalam. Weaver’s Literary Review (Volume 1, Number 2, 2025) Volume 1 Number 2 of Weaver’s Literary Review, “A Home for Writings by South Asian Americans and Others”, is beautiful and powerful, with poems, essays, translations, short stories and a review. I have read a few pieces so far, and am looking forward to reading the rest. I am honored to have in it my story Drea

Oct 29, 20255 min read

Short Takes July 2025

Introducing Short Takes There are so many things I want to write to you all about, and I never seem to have time. So, I decided I would start “Short Takes” to tell you, in 500 words or less, about a book, a show, a movie, or something else that moves me. So here we go! Film: One Hundred Years of Solitude. A beloved book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez , made into an impressive Netflix series . I was transported into the world of Macondo and seven generations of the family of J

Jul 20, 20253 min read