Son of a famous father. Father of a famous son. I am the hyphen between them. Only, Rishi Kapoor was and is so much more. Few actors in Hindi cinema have had this sort of a career arc: from the gawky adolescent pining for his schoolteacher (Mera Naam Joker, 1970) to the naughty ninety-year-old (Kapoor […]
A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks–who starred in the film version; in “Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everything–but finds himself caught in a series of international events. “Summer Moonshine involves a complicated love quadrangle and what is probably the ugliest home in England; and […]
This new biography charts not only the life of the Buddha as it happened, but also considers what the life of Siddhartha Gautama still means to Buddhists today.