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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People are like jigsaw puzzles they have pieces. Some people get to see only some pieces of other people and so they don’t see the whole..only parts We keep putting out our own pieces together in different ways, trying to make sense of them unlike those who make their pictures faster than us..others Sometimes […]
“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 […]
*** They are everywhere. These new zombie-like creatures, BlackBerrys in hand, earphones in their ears, eyes on the screen and head in the clouds. We have now reached a stage where chalkboards and pens are being replaced with touchscreens and styluses; where iPads are replacing notebooks. Popularity is no longer about how many people know […]
Have you ever thought about completely going off the grid? Deactivating your Facebook, switching off your cell phone? Deleting your twitter, tumblr, wordpress, flickr, blog and all accounts that keep an account of your life? Disabling your email, going off WhatsApp? Disconnecting your landline, and while you’re at it maybe even switching off your […]
Humans love symmetry. From quantum physics, to the reasons we find people attractive, everything is linked to symmetry. Even our own bodies are bilaterally symmetrical. Our brains are roughly symmetrical. Funnily enough, our hearts are not. (Note, all you medical students calling me a crazy person who knows nothing about anything, I’m talking about a […]
Sometimes I feel that this madness just keeps on increasing. Like the background music of my life is building up to this great crescendo except that you cant tell if it’s gonna change back to a major scale after that, and if it does, maybe it will lapse back to the relative minor. Sometimes I want to run […]