Watched Monsoon Wedding. Beautiful film, great acting, lovely soundtrack. Not really a comedy, like many reviews have said, unless we mean comedy in the Italian neo-realist tradition of social satire and bittersweet storylines. The film made all the more poignant by the current nuclear threat hanging over the region – when the madness of power and politics becomes more incredible than the most unbelievable fiction. Hoping only in an ending to the crisis reflecting the film’s closing shots, with the monsoon rains washing away all the bad karma and the pain…

Also from New Delhi - like the film's setting - come Arundathi Roy's comments on the crisis - Under the nuclear shadow.