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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Penguin Books India with Hamish Hamilton announces the launch of Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace on May 19th 2016 The Bones of Grace is the third part of the brilliant Bengal Trilogy in which A Golden Age and The Good Muslim were published in 2007 and 2011 respectively. Advance praise for the book ‘A novel of heart, […]
Bangalore Theatre Company presents Kannada play ‘Cherry Thota’ based on Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard ’ on April 7, 2016 at 7:30 pm at Ranga Shankara. The play deals with the turbulent times of the then Russia when ‘serfdom’ had been just abolished and the society was moving forward. Cherry orchard, as a metaphor, suggests several things simultaneously; the beauty of […]
For a very good reason, pasta is one of the most popular foods in the world ! It is tasty, easy to cook and can be used in a wide variety of dishes. It’s also extremely satisfying to make from scratch and uses only two ingredients. So it can easily be made when there’s not […]
The Alliance Française de Bangalore along with the Foundation Alliance Française is organizing a Photography Competition on the theme ‘Objectif Sport’. Sports have had a strong part to play in modern as well as traditional society. Thus, participants throughout the world will put in an image that depicts the best sporting activities in their countries. […]
Romanoff and Juliet is a play by Peter Ustinov. A comic spoof of the Cold War, it is set in the small mythical mid-European country of Concordia, whose leader is wooed by the United States and the Soviet Union, each one wanting him as an ally. Russia’s ambassador, a member of the Romanoff family, has […]
Penguin presents a comprehensive look into the ideologies and politics of Indian revolutionaries fighting for the nation’s Independence. Kama Maclean’s ‘A Revolutionary History of Interwar India’ gives a fresh perspective to the freedom struggle through the lens of image, voice and text. This book delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and actions of the […]
Pan Macmillan India has announced the release of bestselling author Jeffrey Archer’s much-awaited new novel from the Clifton Chronicles series, Cometh the Hour (Paperback at Rs 599). Archer continues his storytelling magic to create characters of spellbinding substance, and readers can count on his surprising twists and shocking conclusion. Here, just when the end seems too tidy, […]
Evocative, sensuous poetry from a colourful and controversial 16th century poet-saint has now been translated in full for the first time. Penguin presents Madho Lal Hussein’s ‘Verses of a Lowly Fakir, ’ a book with timeless verses that offer a glimpse into a world riven with political conflict and religious acrimony, churning with debate about […]
Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003) was an iconic writer who transformed the landscape of Hindi literature. Sahni was fluent in several languages—Punjabi, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu and English—and his oeuvre encompassed a wide range of literary forms: novels, short stories, plays, essays. Tamas, his best known novel, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975 and was subsequently adapted […]
Ashokamitran, born in 1931 in Secunderabad, is one of the most distinguished contemporary Indian writers. In a prolific career that began in 1955, he has written over 250 short stories along with two dozen novels and novellas, in addition to a steady output of columns, essays and book reviews, earning him a central place in […]
Many of us want to make a difference to the world but some of us already are and we can help such path-breakers and support causes that resonate with us. Here is one such NGO you can support. Here is a brief introduction to SDIE (Sahasra Deepka: Foundation for Education). ** SDIE (http://sdie.org/cms/)was founded by […]
Note from the editor: Unboxed Writers had published an episode in an auto a few weeks back and had solicited readers for anecdotes about difficult situations they may have faced while commuting in their cities. We are publishing here a story by a reader, Sindhu Rao K S. This is her story in her words. […]