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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Oh Internet, Grant me your presence today. Grant me some of your bandwidth To watch this video play. Grant me the decency To answer my mail. Grant me the honour Of your efficiency Like you grant it to those living In the big city down there. Grant me these 2 mb I daren’t ask for […]
Technology baffles me. And makes me laugh. And wonder. This happened some time back. I was checking out this beautiful wall clock on that online shopping site. It was not one of those pricey items. But I was not sure if it was the right wall clock for me. I needed more time to decide. And there […]
May 4, 2014 is a day that’s etched in my memory. It’s one when I had to live without the Internet in addition to being stuck alone in a one bedroom apartment . The only mode of communication I had was a primitive mobile phone that allowed me to send text messages and make phone […]
These days social media or messaging services are often used as a method of sharing an invitation or for conveying greetings (birthday/marriage/first child et etc). We know so many people now that sending a personal invite to each one is not feasible. The world is fast paced and there just isn’t enough time.Not ignoring the fact […]
Have you ever thought about completely going off the grid? Deactivating your Facebook, switching off your cell phone? Deleting your twitter, tumblr, wordpress, flickr, blog and all accounts that keep an account of your life? Disabling your email, going off WhatsApp? Disconnecting your landline, and while you’re at it maybe even switching off your […]