Welcome Home, When Chai Met Toast, and Aravind Adiga - What's The Chakkar?
What’s The Chakkar? Episode 4: We’re watching Welcome Home and Indian horror; listening to When Chai Met Toast; reading Aravind Adiga and Balli Kaur Jaswal. Featuring Prateek Santram, Ady Manral, and Shaista Vaishnav. Hosted by Karan Madhok.
Indian Tiger, Foreign Gaze
The White Tiger (2021) is a dark and explosive rags-to-riches Indian story, cooked to be palatable to Western tastes. The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel sticks too close to its source, losing on screen what was gained in text. By Karan Madhok