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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This moment and nothing. This moment, the ripples in billowed clouds, this moment the surge to puncture,to tear the tears and fly off- to the winged cloud, the tailed cloud, the untamed cloud, the dispersing cloud, the undying-undulating cloud, the spiralling cloud, the mischievous and mercurious loud, the uninhibited,unshy,the naked,the mutinous cloud. Sarab Sri Kaur […]
Untouchability has its roots in India like its culture,religion,pride and diversity.We are born with it and we die with it.We neither question nor dare to find answers.It has survived like a label,a name,an identity.One may not believe in caste,yet one can’t change the belief of others . The whole notion of Purity and Pollution is […]
I am free from the fetters and I fly…I die. I dump the body in the garbage of your beauty tricks, your anti-ageing serums, your yoga mats and rejuvenation therapies. I rise above my gaze, my unglued and free gaze. Jealous? See me fly, my hair tossing above clouds, my milk whitening the world, my […]
If we are not capable of loving and forgiving ourselves, we can be no good to others. And then.. Some moments turn very plain and very dark, And then.. your thoughts just hang like stars on this blanket of sadness.. that is the sky.
Pack me tonight, Pack my heart, Pack my pain, Pack my smiles Pack me and take me..to your safest place. Or Unpack me and watch me overtake all of your mysteries. Or Lets pack, travel and unravel continents of our hearts. Hear me! Hark, unchain me Or chain me forever! I hate to be lonely. […]
Only disasters so far, I don’t know what comes after. I never saw much light at the end of the mistrust. But there is hope Because I do not give up and won’t be defeated forever. The needle prick of pain is just skin deep It may hurt Or just may bring me back to […]
I quietly play the soulful music and talk to the silent chords, my heart plays. But there is a music in distress too, that just doesn’t die. Even when there is peace, I can see so many pieces within. Whether you come or not, my soulful symphony will go on. I can’t stop the dance, […]
It is not dice, its my life. Just can’t play autumn and scatter my little self. Who will gather me back in my bag of life? Time rushes, gushes and changes. Balm the wounds, bandage the pain. While the world thunders on, catch the silence of soul, steal a few hours from the clock and […]
I gazed out of the window and noticed these lovely red pomegranates, so ripe, so fresh, ready to be touched, waiting to be tasted. Heavily laden hearts, red with rage, ready to burst, waiting to be shared. Sharing is a secret meditation, The business of the souls. As my hand reached out for the […]