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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I live in a small town, with cement roads and dust smitten air. We relish the small town luxury of maintaining a garden, in the front as well as in the backyard of our bungalow. We never got a landscape designer or a planner for the garden. Instead, through the years, we just collected […]
Roamed a while amid the lush green trees, across heaps of crushed leaves, Strolled within the crowning bulge of the sun, Smelled the warm scent of the freshly baked bun, Poured coffee, steaming over the headlines, Shivered in the crisp chill around the nearby pines, Smiled at a wrinkled soul wandering aloof with his […]
Life, beaming in a drop, hanging down a leaf, Life, that surpasses the shackles of belief, Life, flowing upon the rigid bed of rocks, Life, like a standing pile of balancing blocks, Life, always walks a path along the valley steep, Life, a warrior against the darkness deep, Life, breathing the hearts’ tiny beat, Life, […]
I woke up with a breeze knocking at my window, ** I woke up to the sun, sending a ray of gold aglow, ** My feet crawled to the open arms of the clouds, ** Where the morning stood smiling, with chirping bird sounds, ** A breeze came along yet again to brush my hair, […]
Let your voice for once, listen to your feelings, For words and tears wait for none, Let those eyes be as silent, Else they might voice your bitter heart Yes I remember those sleepless nights, And those lamps, lit with your memories, the black crisp petals are still fresh, I can still smell the […]
Who do I trust, which heart should I pry? Who should I call, when my lips tremble dry? Who should I trust with the saddest day of my life? Who would be by my side, when life is the edge of a knife? Who should hold me with strength ? Who should walk along […]
Emotions sometimes seem so unnecessary. The thoughts, the fears, the assumptions, the pre-suppositions, the questions which play with our thought processes and create an unnecessary noise, distract silence and keep our minds constantly busy. Not to forget the need for ‘dramatisation’ that a normal person is taught from his childhood. When a person is hurt, his first reaction should be a […]
I am walking on the rain soaked earth, drizzling clouds falling upon me, all I feel, are your last words digging through, My feet walking me into the moisture laden air, While the heart is on its way into the past , losing itself to the memory of joy, Every step in the sparkle of […]
For years I have woken up, with the sun shining by my side, Watched myself in the mirror, dressed, bathed, looked better everyday, Chosen colours to wear, pinned my hair to let nothing but my work abide, Drove past the hush and rush of lives, as they flew past me with the clock’s pace, Against the volatile heart, my mind waged a war, […]
So many questions I ask myself every day, About right and wrong, On how to decide what right is, and what is wrong, Since the moment the alarm strikes a chord, Till the moment my senses fade and drop, Questions of ‘how’s and ‘when’s, Of how to answer a question with a ‘no’ ? And if I […]
When the lights flood the dusty space above a wooden platform, the darkness beyond its length, from where applause comes as a storm, the boundaries of lines and curves, within which art unfolds on-stage, as the colors of make-up, and volumes of wigs and costumes define a character’s cage, the aesthetics of art, rubbed upon each […]
The beat of drums, leads the thumping of my heart, The clouds bursting against one another; awaken the heart with a start, The flute pumps waves of melody seamlessly into the air, Peacocks dance in the rhythmic rains, as love pours down, along with streams of care, The strings of violins, invoke memories of love and […]