Some time back, the brief marriage of socialite and reality TV star Kim Kardashian broke up amid speculations that it was all a publicity stunt. Publicity is big business today and those who are famous at times do not even need to do anything worthwhile to earn their fame. They are famous and just by […]
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In The Name Of God
Her helpless eyes were moist. Not from the rain. But there was nothing I could do to save her. Tears rolled down my cheeks and onto hers. It was time to part ways. I had known Radha since I was a kid. She was extremely docile and cute. We almost grew up together. She was […]
Waiting To Live…
In her dreams, Innayat always woke up to the enchanting and re-assuring sound of the morning azaan, and opened the windows, which her nani would slyly shut after she had slept. The morning breeze would bring with it, freshness and a whiff of roses, the pine trees, the first batch of Kashmiri rotis being baked […]
The Family Hotel-Part 1
Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts, starting from this week. Here is a brief introduction. Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. […]
The End Of Innocence
It began with Emosanal Attyachar. When I watched Dev D a few years ago, I felt as if my insides had been churned and that Sarat Chandra Chatterjee had died once again. There was nothing wrong cinematically with the film. The first half was visceral and brutally honest about the messy, inner universe of love. The lust, the anger, the impulsive severings that […]
Art Beat-Beyond The Fads
Unboxed Writers introduces Art Beat, a fortnightly column that takes you to people, places and trends in art, tracks prices that rise and fall, artists who have made it and also the ones to watch out for, events that become the talk of the town and those which don’t live up to the hype. Have […]
I Am Not Invisible…
In the 1950s, Ralph Ellison wrote a novel called Invisible Man about the existential invisibility of African Americans and how the ‘other half’ simply did not see them. Their stories did not matter because no one acknowledged them as real. Among many other unforgettable lines, were these, “I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me. You often doubt if you really […]
I AM ONIR…
Anirban Dhar or Onir, as we know him now, makes disconcerting films that disturb the equanimity with which Hindi cinema is watched. They ask questions not all of us are willing to face or answer. The abiding sense of isolation running through his work is not romantic or self-indulgent. It instead takes us into the heart and mind of an ostracised AIDS patient in My Brother Nikhil… This was a film that […]
Across the barbed fence
It is not easy to love your neighbour across a barbed fence. Not easy to see that history is never just about us or them but about everyone who has lived and breathed and suffered and walked on this planet. That an individual matters as much as a nation. It is hard to see ourselves and others through a […]