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Sometimes, the merest thing can trigger off memories- an image, a sound, the whiff of a perfume. I recently viewed a photograph of Mumbai….endless tall buildings, a grey snaking road and a bird soaring in the ...Read More
Today, I fell in love with a
Pashto song.
I imagined the writer,
a handsome man,
his features Afghan
like I see on TV;
to me they all look like poets.
Thinking up beautiful lines.
in the mountains,
in the pleasant bitter coldness,
of Waziristan.
Now terroristan
if we’re to believe
the Americans.
He ...Read More
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Our lives are not in a constant even flow. There are troughs and crests interspersed with the routine business of living. While the crests are easy to ride- being as they are about intense happiness, success, joy ...Read More
Which side of the road do you walk?
There is a parallel line.
You look at the road
And it gives you a stare right back.
The road to home
has always looked the same.
It offered me a chance
to go out and see another roads
in ...Read More
I continue to ask myself the question, what is it that draws me to Na Bole Tum, Na Maine Kuch Kaha? One thing I can say with certainty that it’s the emotional link the writer, actors and director are able ...Read More
Editor's note: This Eid we are very happy to introduce to you, our first contributor from Pakistan. Here is to threads that bind us together inextricably through art, music, cinema and a shared humanity. This piece is reproduced here courtesy NuktaArt, ...Read More
This post is dedicated to my mother; who like any other teenager was smitten by Rajesh Khanna in the 70s so much so that she wore sarees especially like one of his heroines; Sharmila Tagore (though she totally denies it!). ...Read More
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A few months ago, on a Facebook thread, I read a few comments against North-Eastern women, about North-Eastern people and their irrelevance to India, to a city like Bangalore. I was teaching at that time in a college ...Read More
What does a cinematographer or a photographer do that we can't? Well, he reinterprets the world through his gaze, recreates it, focusses on moments that say, "Watch this. This is important. Beautiful. Relevant," bleaches a frame of colour or suffuses ...Read More
"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, ...Read More
My heroes who I look up to would not be regarded as super human or larger-than-life characters but simple “ordinary” people who possess extraordinary qualities that somehow seem rare these days. In an increasingly cynical country, these unlikely heroes share ...Read More
As we are entering into the 65th year of Independence, a zeal, a fervor can be felt all around; and moreover, as we celebrate the glorious achievements of our six Olympians, who have made the whole nation proud with their feats, ...Read More
