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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Here and now. Today. Capture it. Speak out .Talk. Happy.Angry.Fraught. Sort it out. Say it now. It’ll get lost. Diluted. Reach out. Touch.Smile.Laugh. Take a chance. Trust what you want. Seek it. Hold on to it. The moment you postpone could be a lost chance. Rachna Tiwari is a hospitality professional, residing in Gurgaon and […]
I listened to the ticking of the bedside clock in the dead silence of the night, each repetitive beat filling me with fresh guilt, ache and remorse. How I wished to travel back in time to that careless moment, erase it and then change the course of events to a much happier ending. In that […]
His lips quivered and tears streamed down his wrinkled cheeks as he held the yellowing piece of paper close to his heart. Memories of the love of his life flashed in his mind forcing a ghost of a smile to linger on his face. He read once again the note she had given him on […]
My sister and I got busy in the kitchen. She read out the ingredients from mom’s recipe book and I arranged them on the counter. Both of us aren’t too keen about cooking, but we were determined to bake cupcakes to make a birthday special and memorable. As I mixed flour, eggs, chocolate, sugar and […]
It had been just a few days since she got the news of her incurable illness from her physician. It had taken a while for the seriousness of the matter to sink in and finally she had managed to ask, “How much time do I have?” The doctor, after a few moments of deep thought […]
I don’t know exactly what to write today. I wanted to write something because I am feeling slightly bored and depressed so I made a few diary entries. I was surprised to see myself crying at 5: am in the morning. Those salty droplets of water which often unleash repressed feelings just wouldn’t stop until […]
The clamour of footsteps and raindrops. Buzzing television sets and distant prayer calls. Brain teeming over with emotion; A break – a pause – mind on holiday. Numbness. Car engines sound like guitar strings scratching against chipped nails. But softer – calmer – now they purr like kittens… Red, green, blue – quietly […]
Stars: One of the greatest revelations of my childhood was that the stars never truly disappear. They burn just as brightly at noon as they do at midnight. Just no one sees them until the sun sets. When the last vestiges of red sink into the high-rise buildings, the stars come out and we find them as though […]
Time flows. “Situations change. People change.” Forever is a myth. Everybody moves on. Memories don’t. Memories know not of this art. They persist..linger.. To strangle the heart and poison the soul, Bringing freezing flashbacks of feelings I would never know again. A funny thing, memory. Sometimes it fades. Like a shadow that gets engulfed by […]
A thought is knocking at my soul with its strong fists and mighty knuckles A thought so cruel … A thought so sweet… A thought so far…. A thought so near…. A thought that brings A smile and a tear… A thought of having … A thought of letting go of something so precious and […]