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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HarperCollins Publishers India is pleased to announce the release of Footprints on Zero Line- Writings on the Partition by Gulzar Translated by: Rakhshanda Jalil The Partition of 1947 has influenced the works of an entire generation of writers, and continues to do so. Gulzar witnessed the horrors of Partition first-hand and it is a theme that […]
Pan Macmillan presents Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. This exquisite collection of stories is for anyone who loves Allende and Marquez. Welcome to Helen’s world of lost places and lost people, of love and cruelty, of keys that haven’t found their locks . Praise: ‘Oyeyemi’s imagination is impressive and vast . […]
I love faces. I love the stories in them. Faces with nervous twitches. Open faces. Stoic faces. Faces that draw you in. Make you think. Shut you out as the distant outsider And a face with a life written on it. The past leading to the present, intertwined on one face. Telling stories about living […]
We all love to read stories or hear stories or sometimes weave stories. Neil Gaiman once said, “Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you, it […]
The shrill ring of the phone snapped you out of your reverie – 8:30 am every day. It was no surprise. It was the same person. Always. Hours passed like minutes, years passed like months – we grew up together. When the phone wasn’t engaged, we spent our time huddled over a scoop of ice […]
I walk amid a sea of people everyday. Pushing, shoving, all the while to be the first. Instead of pushing them by and egging them ahead, have you ever taken a closer look at them? Have you looked into their eyes? Everyone has a story to tell, and it’s all written in their eyes. This […]
Sometimes, when you look at those clothes in your wardrobe, you will remember many things. Interesting little bits, bought at reasonable and unreasonable prices. You will recall, clothes that are now, perhaps, in the cupboards of flood and earthquake victims, in the house of the utensil seller who gave you a saucepan in exchange for […]