The Dibakar Banerjee files

The new issue of The Caravan has my profile/interview/general-reflections piece on director Dibakar Banerjee. The first thing – quite possibly the only thing – you will notice about the story is that it is Very Long. (The first draft was more than one-fifth the size of the Jaane bhi do Yaaro book.) But it could have been even longer, and at some point in the not-too-near future I may put up an extended/modified version here (or the full transcripts of conversations spread over many days). Meanwhile, here’s the Caravan link again.

Update: I hereby excuse myself from responsibility for any insane grammatical errors in the piece (I just noticed one, in the single excerpt I've read, and there must be more). Pity, but such oversights often happen with pieces of this length, involving a long-drawn-out process of revisions and overenthusiastic/hurried proofing. (It happened with the Jaane bhi do Yaaro book, where the Harper Collins desk blithely introduced errors into the copy at the last possible stage.)