My most resonant memory of 70s music is when during the preparations of our school annual functions, we would hear Lipps Incorporated's Funky Town again and again. And again. We had no access to Western music except on radio and ...Read More
She wears altered waist coats of her politician father, swaps jhumkas for a gun, dances raunchily in front of her grandmother, is Tendulkar to her brothers, swears and rains abuses with passion on foes, drives an open jeep, is not ...Read More
Mothers are born flawed. If they don't see imperfections in themselves, which is unlikely, someone else will. But these questions and doubts a mother faces today are unique to the times. Our grandmothers were different. They were undivided souls. They ...Read More
He raises his eyebrow. Flicks a tear off his sculpted, strikingly beautiful face. Leans forward. Cups his chin. He is not Oprah but we could be wrong. Satyamev Jayate is a well-intentioned show. It has got one thing right. The ...Read More
A few days back I found a petition forwarded by Richard Loitam's parents in my inbox. The same Richard who was beaten brutally to death a few nights ago in a reputed Bangalore college. A few months in a college ...Read More
Sometimes those who watch you
go by..
have no idea
about your journey
the roads you have taken to get here
they only see
who you are now
or think they do
and
measure your human weight
your life
your work
in the palm of their hand
they know nothing
because
beneath the obvious surface
of who ...Read More
The roots of a gulmohar..
with hungry, splayed fingers
clutch the earth
to draw all its passion
eager lust
crimson joy
life blood
life surge
to pour it all back
into a million, flaming hearts
beating back to the world
unconquerable love
that covers the earth with warm, red kisses
and fades..leaving behind ...Read More
An unfinished day..
half baked.
incomplete.
loudly, rudely voiced.
untidy.
spilling...
unconvincing truths..
just like a..
soul expelled from its skin
And now
just a moment
a deep breath
and forgiveness
and insight
that even when
you can't draw a straight line
on paper
you can in your head
and that is where
it begins
and ends
does it not? Read More
So how dirty is dirty on Indian television? A censored film is not sanitised enough for family audiences but home grown crime shows are? Especially the ones where in the guise of educating viewers about the dangers lurking in every ...Read More
When mind triumphs over matter, you become Zohra Sehgal. How else do you explain that someone born in 1912 is still relevant to us? Still loved, adored and still smiling at life with a wink and a saucy grin after ...Read More
Watching Aamir Khan go down with a makeshift stage where he was standing to convey his intimacy with people unlike him was faintly ironical. More about that later but is it incidental that everytime he has a ...Read More
