I saw a dried leaf rolling over a lush green patch of grass, cracked along its bent spinal cord, edges falling into pieces across the length of the grass. It disappeared somewhere , probably on its path along with the ...Read More
When I was a kid, we had a Videocon VHS at home. Grandpa would bring videocassettes from the nearby library, and played them on it. I asked him innocent questions like, “Tatha, don’t you get bored? These films go so ...Read More
This balcony is perfect. It gives the luxury of both shade and sunshine from the morning sun at the same time. You can sit in such a way that your legs are warmed by the sun while the head rests ...Read More
We Hollywood groupies are a spoiled lot. Just because Ricky Gervais made the Golden Globes lip-smackingly outrageous last year, we expected him to stay true to his irreverent form this year. What we got instead were insults that were cringe-making, ...Read More
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes(1970) is one of Billy Wilder‘s least known works. It is one of the ‘revealed’ Holmes stories, and is not part of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes canon. The film takes a satirical look at the ...Read More
Harishchandrachi Factory, if you haven't seen it till date is strongly reminiscent of Malgudi Days, DD serials of yore, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee oeuvre of films, the feeling of snugging into the quilt to hear Grandma tell a story. In short, ...Read More
Freedom is a word full of peril. Because it engages with something that exists beyond the possible, the real, the confined, the limited. Freedom in its purest sense is not a destructive word. It is not about leaving ...Read More
Living in the cities, news of disappearing farmlands and increasing numbers of farmers’ suicides is just another media story for most of us. But when a creative artist chooses to bring the harsh truth right at our doorstep, there is ...Read More
She waved good bye as she left for school, trying to manage her raincoat hood and blue umbrella – her own little sky, as she’d always quip. Her tiny shoulders bearing the weight of her school bag and this ...Read More
The good thing about cheaper DVDs flooding the market is that one no longer has to think twice before picking up a film. My recent acquisitions include Raj Kapoor’s Prem Rog, Raj Sippy’s kidnapping caper Inkaar, Gulzar’s Khushboo and a ...Read More
Every tender shoot grows green
and withers to brown one day
Every flower will be sucked through its tendons
and become nothing one day
Every pebble was part of a strong rock
Every raindrop seeping into the earth
was once cradled by a cloud flock
The tiny ...Read More
This is what she had wanted. With a maddening urgency and desperation, like thirst for water after a long spell of draught. So what if the rains came four months ago, and had drenched her. With moisture soaking into clothes, ...Read More
