JLF Diary: Small-town stories to Af-Pak affairs

Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande was attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, considered Asia-Pacific's leading literature event. At the fest, he managed to strike a rapport with......

JLF Diary: Sex, drugs and Indo-Pak, all up for debate

After five days of cultural jamboree curtains drew on the Jaipur Literature Festival and writer-director Suparn Verma and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande witnessed all the extravaganza.......

JLF Diary: 'Ruskin Bond is James Bond's uncle'

Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, considered Asia-Pacific's leading literature event. They......

JLF 2011 Diary: Rajasthani charm and The Bookshelf

Tina Brown, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast has called it 'the greatest literary show on earth' -- a fact that the website of the Jaipur Literature Festival proudly......

Inside the mad skull of Suparn Verma

Raja Sen meets Suparn Verma, the zany director of the thriller, Acid Factory I will not review Suparn Verma's Acid Factory. And no, this isn't just because the director once broke my little......

Aatma director Suparn Verma: I was sick of horror being abused

'Atmospheric scares don't have to come from scenes in graveyards with dogs howling....' 'I chose to make a horror film because I was sick of this genre being abused by haunted villas,......

Suparn Verma: Bipasha will win a National Award for Aatma

Suparn Verma, director of Aatma, which releases this Friday, recounts his cinematic journey, his favourite films and everything in between. While most filmmakers probably suffer anxiety attacks......

Bipasha Basu: I am a greedy actor

Bipasha Basu's latest horror film Aatma was unveiled at J W Marriott hotel in Juhu, a western suburb of Mumbai, on February 11. The film co-stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and child artist Doyel Dhawan,......