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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Music, images and the written word … while being, inanimate, in themselves … many a time, make up for the absence of the human presence, the heart connect, emotional bonding, conversations, sharing, understanding … and in an inexplicable way, become a best friend, a soul mate, a co-witness, who is so needed … they nurture […]
“Speech is a virtue”, insisted Dan. “Opinions differ” countered Sarah. “If we could not speak, we would not have been here” said Dan. “Exactly” said Sarah “we would not have been where we are now” she said, rather wistfully. They had grown old together and it felt good – these little breaks that they had, […]
Words. So many words making up noise and clutter ** Words.. Empty Full Unspent Overused ** And silence… infuriating when it refuses to budge and melt into words ** And sometimes liberating when it says what we don’t want to hear when it says.. “This is it.. there is no more. To hear. […]
Let your voice for once, listen to your feelings, For words and tears wait for none, Let those eyes be as silent, Else they might voice your bitter heart Yes I remember those sleepless nights, And those lamps, lit with your memories, the black crisp petals are still fresh, I can still smell the […]
“The train of thought, stream of thought’, or chain of thought refers to the interconnection in the sequence of ideas expressed during a connected discourse or thought, as well as the sequence itself, especially in discussion how this sequence leads from one idea to another.” So I decided to record my train of thought. These are just words. And […]
Did your Mama ever say to you – “if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all. “I think Mama was right after all. Words wield a great deal of power. The power to build and destroy. You see, every word has its own vibration which can affect the physiology of a human […]
Not enough has been said about the power of silence. Silence can speak more and louder than mere words. Words only hurt, silence can annihilate. Words may, at times, heal; silence embalms. Words have been known to persuade; silence can virtually seal a deal. Silence is a killer, decimating soundlessly. It can withhold and show largesse, all […]
For a very long time I believed that words have the ability to express everything… everything that we feel, see, touch and everything that we can sense. For a long time, I believed that words are the beginning of a solution, if not the solution itself. For a long time I prided myself in being […]