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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Just a list of quick things you can keep in mind while you spend time shopping for vegetables and spend time dishing up delicacies in your kitchen – you want solid good health packed into those pretty-looking, great-tasting dishes. That’s the trick I think, instead of trying to pass off a sad-tasting thing as healthy. […]
How to prepare for a slightly altered, healthier and greener life? Here is how.. – Never cut your veggies and store them– same thing goes for fruits, and for mincing, shredding, dicing, cubing, mashing etc etc. If you have a cut vegetable, use it within 10-15 minutes. This is especially true for onions and garlic […]
Prep Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 20 minutes Recipe Source: Improvised from a Sanjeev Kapoor egg recipe Serves: 2 sensible people or 1 greedy human being You need: 1 onion, chopped 1 capsicum, chopped 4-5 garlic cloves, smashed To be blanched: 1 carrot, chopped A fistful of fresh corn 1 potato, peeled and cubed […]
I am itching to declare this as my invention but I am sure somebody has already made it, if not spoken about it. It’s like chancing upon Palak Paneer and feeling that you came up with it. Ridiculous. But this khichdi makes me very happy. It is a ‘vegetabled’ version of what I used […]
Uma Iyer has dreamt of Molu, a mischievous six-year-old for almost a decade now. She shares with the young readers of Unboxed Writers, ‘Meet Molu,’ a yet to be published first book of hopefully what would turn out to be a Molu and Tushka series. Agni, or ‘Molu’ as she is commonly referred to, is a six-year-old girl […]
Veggies remain fresh when vacuum packed and sealed I blink riveted like an idiot at the lady on TV Suck out the air and they’ll live longer than they would if they could breath Can’t wait till they make containers big enough to hold a human being Seal in the youth Draw out the air […]