It has been over one year since Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez were killed in Mumbai by eve-teasers for trying to protect their girl-friends. Their loved ones are still waiting for justice though finally charges have been framed. However, never before in the history of independent India have the young faced so many challenges as they […]
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Month: October 2012
You?
That dark swirling path That goes on chasing its tail that takes you back to where you began what would it say if it could speak? It would say.. It’s not the path it’s you you need to find something new.. you..maybe? *** Reema Moudgil has been writing for magazines and newspapers on […]
Ascend…
In search of the subtle The gross is lost So is the prose, in the search of poetry Trudging up the hill The mountain breeze heals the mind The soul yearns for the peak The body..for earth.. In search of the miraculous The mundane is lost So is the form, in the search of essence […]
Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934-2012)-In Memoriam
Silence the conch shells stop the dhakis at their drums the winter air this festive season nips sharp for the writer’s gone. His pen that spilled over into thousands of words and more will write no more. The writer whose words could make my father’s voice mellow and ruminative when he read him out […]
Press Release: The Seduction Of Lady Anne
The Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival 2012 in Bangalore pays a tribute to the dramatic genius of William Shakespeare and one of the short plays hosted at the festival is.. The Seduction of Lady Anne: Excerpts from William Shakespeare’s Richard III ** Synopsis: Lady Anne is in mourning as her husband Edward and her father-in-law Henry […]
Jaspal Bhatti: A Tribute
Jaspal Bhatti was more of a crusader than a comedian, who through his simple, clean, genial and understated humour won millions of hearts through decades. With much ease, freshness and simplicity, Bhatti’s realistic characters, caught in everyday situations, were identifiable and made instant connect. Utilizing comedy as a tool of satire had been his […]
Review: The Buddha In The Attic
The world is divided between them and us. Between the disempowered and the powerful. Between survivors. And oppressors. And what better way to tell a story about dispossession, migration, transition and struggle than to assume not just one voice but many? To narrate not just one but diverse histories embodied in Japanese mail order […]
Train Of Thought
“The train of thought, stream of thought’, or chain of thought refers to the interconnection in the sequence of ideas expressed during a connected discourse or thought, as well as the sequence itself, especially in discussion how this sequence leads from one idea to another.” So I decided to record my train of thought. These are just words. And […]
Where We Used To Be..
When the sunrise was not something I took for granted and the sound of birds chirping in the morning made my day complete before it had even started. When soft guitar chords would float around me as I waited patiently for nightfall, as days stretched into night and then merged into each other like […]
The Wait..
Out and about in the happily bustling, oozing with life city this past week and craving for an escape to a land of beaches and waves, a lot of things have been hitting me in the face. The most recent being the lack of time anyone seems to have for anything anymore. And if you do have a lot […]
Yash Chopra: Grit, Guts and Glory
Jab Tak Hai Jaan..a prophetic title in retrospect. Perfect for a man who worked till the last year of his life with the medium that he loved, and had shaped and redefined. Call it a coincidence but for some reason, I started watching my favourite Yash Chopra films in the past one week and marvelled […]
Second Act
Whoever said women were permitted only one act in a lifetime? Do 20 extra kilos, scars of an invasive surgery, dental implants and some somnolent muscles mean you are done for in this life? Would it be fair to say that you are now past your peak and prime, having discharged your primary obligations of […]