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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Thank you 2011.. For showing me that dreams can come true… they may take time, but you must persevere, hold on to them, and have faith. For showing me that once dreams come true, it’s not the end, but the beginning of another dream. For teaching me the power of staying in the present moment. For helping […]
Chaos reigned all around. It was difficult to believe that on a normal day, this place exudes quiet discipline. Children were shrieking and their parents were milling around, socializing, and discussing school politics maybe. The school was spread over four floors with an atrium in the centre. Today, the atrium was a buzz with activity. The school […]
I first did yoga when I was in the eighth or ninth standard. I remember waking up early in the morning and going to a dark, dingy building with my mom. I felt so bored by the slow motions of yoga asanas coupled with my sleepiness, that I lasted just two days. As I grew […]
Last week, an issue was bothering me. I had done everything in my control to take care of it. But there were so many factors I had no control over. Every night, as I would sleep, my mind would be beset with worries. I felt the burden of a million negative thoughts about how everything […]