In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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Spilling over with abandon, Bursting forth with life. No barriers.No boundaries. Not a shackle in sight. Spring in joyous, unfettered flight. Rachna Tiwari is a hospitality professional, residing in Gurgaon and working in New Delhi. She hails from a services background and has lead a nomadic life in her formative years. Her interests include reading, movies […]
Life is all about contrasting decisions, each one making a new ripple; sometimes saving you and the other times destroying you. I have written before about letting go and moving on, but now, I’ll write about the opposite. About the virtue of holding on. Nowadays, people have lost the patience to tolerate cracks in […]
Life is a riddle. When we try and unfold its layers, we learn a little more. For most people, life does not unfold as a picture book story. As time moves, we see the colours fading. The innocence of childhood, the zeal of the sophomore, the spiritedness of youth; all of that fades into grey. And wisdom […]
We are told how to be happy in a million different ways by a million people and the options are boggling. There are many different ways to be happy but just a few simple ones to be unhappy. Here are a few simple tricks to be unhappy and achieve a gloomy, sloppy, sagging soul. Beat yourself […]
Yesterday, on a friend’s suggestion, I read a poem called ‘On the Art of Kintsugi‘ by Ruth Padel. And then to understand it better, researched the pottery craft the poem was inspired by. Kintsugi, I learnt is a Japanese art/craft of fixing pottery and ceramic vessels. But it is no ordinary technique. It uses a gold based […]
What can you say about a woman who loved Urdu poetry, a cat named Jadoo, Pink Floyd, Steve Jobs and human connections? And who, in her own words, fell in love with a Macintosh Plus computer over two decades ago? The computer changed the course of her life as it helped her to shape an, […]
The bunk bed went yesterday. In the living room the 40-inch TV lies on the floor, devoid of its stand. The coffee tables and end tables gone – even their impressions on the carpet – gone. Very soon this house will be empty. Emptied of occupants and emptied of possessions. It will no long smell […]
In 1996, one Father Verghese in charge of Bangalore Oniyavara Seva Coota (BOSCO), a non governmental organisation working with the young at risk in the city since 1980, had responded to a late evening call by this reporter and come to MG Road to counsel a destitute teenager addicted to white ink. BOSCO, in retrospect […]
There is a scene in Shonali Bose’s incredibly direct and brave film Margarita With A Straw where Laila (Kalki Koechlin), the protagonist is passing by a library in her wheelchair and looking through a glass wall at ‘normal’ people on the other side. This glass wall, as the film teaches us is not just something […]
Technology baffles me. And makes me laugh. And wonder. This happened some time back. I was checking out this beautiful wall clock on that online shopping site. It was not one of those pricey items. But I was not sure if it was the right wall clock for me. I needed more time to decide. And there […]
A certain section of Internet users need scapegoats and heroes. They need constant debate. About whether the cat is coming down or going up the staircase. Whether a dress is blue or white and gold. Whether Prince Harry was right in refusing a selfie with a fan. Some of us want to see the last […]
My sister and I got busy in the kitchen. She read out the ingredients from mom’s recipe book and I arranged them on the counter. Both of us aren’t too keen about cooking, but we were determined to bake cupcakes to make a birthday special and memorable. As I mixed flour, eggs, chocolate, sugar and […]