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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“There are more things between Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet’s words are just as true today as they were when Shakespeare first penned them down. For, don’t we all yearn for things beyond the ordinary – a love that defies logic, a faith that believes before it sees, […]
Life is but a delicate web, spun with fine threads of faith, coloured by our dreams, textured by our fate. Fragile butterfly wings, are such ephemeral things, in their innocent swing, lies the destruction of a hurricane’s spin. A grain of dust, negligible, to say the least, in the hands of time and tide, is […]
Freedom is… Knowing we will all drown someday but being at peace with drowning before the next minute arrives Feeling the fear but looking it in the eye anyway Thinking you’ll never make it but taking that first step nonetheless Sensing that you’re way out of your depth but trusting the water and your body’s […]
Living in cardboard box off 5th Avenue Nine floors high without much of a view Bagpipes on a Saturday afternoon Cyclists fill the streets in June People in Harlem dance to their own beat The sounds of the trains travel through the pipes Thud! A pair of heels hits the floor The neighbour’s home. It’s […]
Veggies remain fresh when vacuum packed and sealed I blink riveted like an idiot at the lady on TV Suck out the air and they’ll live longer than they would if they could breath Can’t wait till they make containers big enough to hold a human being Seal in the youth Draw out the air […]
Two thirds of the earth’s face Yeah! She needs a lot of space You can step into her world for a beat Sweep her off her feet But you’d be a fool to be deceived The next wave will bring you crashing to you knees She’ll reclaim everything you stole Long before the story grows […]
Mr Shambles is as brilliant as can be Builds castles in the air to which he’s lost the key He sells dreams for a living You can buy them for free Hears voices in his cranium when he’s high on cold coffee Mr Shambles knows too much for his own good 5-year-old and wise old […]
With trees being chopped down by the hundreds, to make room for new buildings, there were very few forested areas left in the city. Little Red Riding Hood always thought she was really lucky to live right at the edge of the city, adjoining a forest. Most people took the long road around the forest, for […]
In a world filled with alternatives, one more seductive than the next, Grassroutes offers urban India a taste of rural living. Half a century after the green revolution hit India, our agricultural practices are still subject to the whims of the weather; our farmlands have been split and re-split into acres too meager to afford […]
I want to take the sea with me Wherever I go, whatever I be To rest my head on a pillow of water A life lived as King Neptune’s daughter I want to take the sea with me To feel the whipping wind in my face Could there ever be a better place? I want to […]
Chased the sun to the edge of a cliff He slipped into Sandman’s lair through walls as thick as mist Rowed through the clouds trying to remember a dream With a heart that’s numb and a mind in deep freeze Shadows wear colour as and when they please Reality grows rich in a world of […]
Down the street they stroll hand in hand Like lovers who’d care two hoots should the whole world be damned She leaps about to a rhythm none but she can hear Never failing to keep pace with his slow tentative step Two hops to one plod A rather odd time signature “Another one, another one” […]