The green light of a distant dock twinkling tantalisingly. Whispering of irretrievable gifts, of hope. Of innocence..that time chipped away at soundlessly. A man, alone on the other side of the bay, reaching out, trying to grasp it. ** Diaphanous curtains filling up ...Read More
The manic energy of trance has weaned a lot of young Hindi film music fans off familiar loops and the old robes of comforting grooves. It is not surprising then that Hindi film music as we knew it, has left ...Read More
Long minutes, maybe a few hours were spent this week in the heart of a police station where I for the first time witnessed the daily workings of a place we usually associate with dark images of intimidation, apathy and ...Read More
In the hospitality business, Taj is one of those rare brands that represent all three dimensions of time. Past, present and future. Nostalgia, modernity and foresight. At Vivanta by Taj, Yeshwantpur on the outskirts of Bangalore, you see the perfect ...Read More
The memories of being beaten up in a Bangalore bus in 1995 have faded away. Bangalore to me is a safe city where I have moved around freely without being conscious of my clothes and have worked late hours as ...Read More
This piece is specifically being written for readers who have travelled with Unboxed Writers from the time we did the first story on Kunal Karan Kapoor. And who still mention it in their messages to us. This was when Na Bole ...Read More
And here is why I will never see Aashiqui 2. Because the first one stood for something unrepeatable though it began as a less than integrated attempt to cash on the Nadeem Shravan music bank with T-Series. Yes, we know ...Read More
Madness...poise heedlessness..choice silence...noise wonderment..belief suffering..relief abandon in patterns fireflies in empty lanterns movement.. stillness stillness..movement Me..You You.. me The quest for more. For less. Flows. And Ebbs. Read More
The thing about the past is that it never comes back and yet never really leaves. Shamshad Begum for instance is not just a Wikipedia note with a birthday and a death day. She is a memory for those of ...Read More
The following piece was written post a series of blasts in Bangalore in 2008..today another bomb attack in the city refreshed the horror.. Terrorism kills more than just people. It blasts to bloody pieces, our faith in the ultimate rightness of ...Read More
What the remakes of old classic films like Chashme Baddoor miss out on is an ingredient called innocence because you can't ever recapture what is lost. Or fake the sense of wonder conveyed by Farooque Sheikh and Dipti Naval on ...Read More
I do not know if this matters. If anything matters. Especially when close to 4000 lives did not matter. When the survivors who were left behind to mourn them and battle an implacable system, did not matter. Have not mattered ...Read More
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