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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I see this Laughing Buddha every weekend when I go cycling. Do you see the crow, perched on the board he is holding? Do you see how small it looks? This Laughing Buddha is gigantic. He is at VGP Golden Beach, Chennai’s first theme park. That part, where the Laughing Buddha was installed, of the […]
Had enough of the negativity and the ugliness that is popping up everywhere? Do you believe that the world is on the brink of an apocalypse? Do you really think that all the good is gone and only dark days lie ahead of us? Then this one is for you. In the midst of death, despair and devastating […]
Imagine a sea of humans in a vast expanse of darkness, A lone candle burns in the hands of one, Observing his neighbors’ unlit candles, He proceeds to share the light of his candle with them. The light grows in intensity and more shadows jump out of the darkness, Almost threatening to snuff […]
Many of us want to make a difference to the world but some of us already are and we can help such path-breakers and support causes that resonate with us. Here is one such NGO you can support. Here is a brief introduction to SDIE (Sahasra Deepka: Foundation for Education). ** SDIE (http://sdie.org/cms/)was founded by […]
January 26, 2001. We had all gathered at our school in Gujarat to celebrate our Republic day. The tricolour was unfurled followed by parade and performances. We all waited eagerly to know who was going to be awarded the best student of the year. It was a proud moment for me to hear my son’s […]
The world would be a calmer place, we would be calmer people if we just realised that the only things that there are limited reserves of, in this world, are our natural resources. The rest of it all is in abundance because the manufacturers of these “other things” are us. Humans. While we have […]
Realized yesterday, I speak to my pav wala, istri wala,paper wala,kachre wala, watchman almost everyday and yet I never ever asked them their names. Today I did, and they were so happy I did. I am happy too. Now I don’t need to address them by their professions; just as I would not like anyone […]
Human I am I am human cells few a couple of tissues blood and flesh and a brain to think a heart to feel and a mind somewhere in between to fly above reach further to be one with the One who created who will destroy to recreate an endless loop a continuous cycle some […]
Imagination is for things That are not. Either just not there Or were had and lost. So fantasy or pain of loss. Tolkiens have exclusive rights To the former While mine is a larger group Called the romantics. Membership demands are Very democratic. All you need are problems Of personality and Some masochism: no proof […]
I saw a young boy apply sudden breaks to his bicycle as it was about to run over the corpse of a crow. Perhaps the bird had tried to fly prematurely and had met with an accident. A question suddenly popped in my head– Why did the young boy consciously prevent his bicycle from running over […]
Mr Shambles is as brilliant as can be Builds castles in the air to which he’s lost the key He sells dreams for a living You can buy them for free Hears voices in his cranium when he’s high on cold coffee Mr Shambles knows too much for his own good 5-year-old and wise old […]
Disasters. The word itself is intimidating and going through them, unimaginable. And then some are natural and some absolutely unnatural. Like this one I recall… There was once in my life, a ‘Big uncle”. I used to call him Big Uncle, because, well, he was very big! We are a family of tiny people and […]