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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And today, I saw the most beautiful sunset of my life.. not at sunset point in Ooty or at Kanyakumari… but here, amidst the city’s hustle bustle. As I drove back home, and the cars whooshed by me in a hurry to get somewhere quickly, I saw it. That beauty of a big orange […]
Purple skies of a moonlit night, Dance of the feral winds, a holy rite. Damp dews and floral ablutions, Music of silence, deep contemplations. A Rising glow..awakening dawn, In the womb of the blue light, are perceptions reborn. Songs of birds at the advent of time, Soulful melodies and silly rhymes. cold breeze, the warmth […]
Whatever it is that creates.. makes those grand gestures of flamboyant sunsets and a never before..never again sunrise *** star pepper moon ballet perfectly arched astutely timed rainbows *** and small gestures that we almost miss raindrops on lotus leaves like well picked pearls on an open palm reflecting light colour all of life everything […]
A new country. New faces. New culture. And endless stretch of empty time that was a wishful thought until a few months back is now a reality. Often I tried to find a sense of belonging in all these. Compared to my quest for a more purposeful life and years of running around like […]
It is a girl. She is walking down an uneven path on the barren hillside, placing her feet carefully on the loose stones. Her thin brown fingers are curled around some ferns with white spore smeared undersides that she uses to stamp Christmas tree shapes on her skin. She places a leaf at the back of the hand clasping […]
Little brown seeds so small and round Are sleeping quietly underground Down come the raindrops Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle Out comes the rainbow, Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle. Little brown seeds way down below, Up through the earth they grow,grow, grow, We cant see the roots which are underground, They hold up the plant without a frown, Stems […]
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. –George Washington Carver It happens every day; everywhere. You can’t miss it, unless of course your eyes are shut, or if you live under a rock. It lasts for only […]
Some people measure a day in Almora by whether the lofty Himalaya will peak through her veil of high altitude powder puff and the resultant powdery dust laden air. “See the Mountains today?” is the opening line of my neighbour after the usual good mornings. A ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer will determine the cosmic quality […]
So many, and yet none… And yet one So much to say, but so in love with silence, So infatuated with control, but deep in love with uncertainty, So many beautiful illusions, but so in love with reality… So much love, at the right time and in the right ways… Ways so perfect, that you […]
The neem tree.. it swayed gently green… so green right outside my window. Beautiful, majestic, grand. The home of squirrels..and the birds. It buzzed with the symphony of life while I stared at it dreamily many a morning and then last evening.. I saw my beloved tree naked..stripped off all her glorious leaves and her […]
It is an accepted paradigm that most cities in India will face a water shortage and that managing sanitation will be a huge challenge. Institutions are taking action albeit slowly. Large scale infrastructure projects are rolling out. Water lines, sewage lines and treatment plants are all coming up. However this will not be sufficient. In […]
Hope is always colourful. It has the warmth – the red, orange, and yellow of the rising sun. It lifts your spirit. It tells you that there is a road out there waiting for you to be walked upon. As the streets explode with the various hues of the Gulmohar flowers, ever so beautiful even in passing and […]