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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Let me start off by stating that it is through JP Das’ writings and narrations I have known and grasped the different aspects of Orissa’s history, traditions and its people. His writings remain focussed on the ground realities .And he is one of those bureaucrats who have had the grit to take premature retirement from the […]
While listening to well known academician and professor of Environmental Sciences, Mahesh Rangarajan at the release of India’s Environmental History (Permanent Black) that he has edited with Mahesh Rangarajan and K Sivaramakrishnan, I wondered why don’t we have more of these uncomplicated and informal talks on nature, environment and the idea of the much connected human- being. Today only a handful of writers […]
Journalist and writer Narayani Ganesh has written candidly about her iconic father in her heart-warming book, Eternal Romantic- My Father, Gemini Ganesan (Roli Books) and talks to Humra Quraishi about it. I’m no film buff, yet I enjoyed reading Narayani Ganesh’s book on her father, the legendary Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan…so much so, I flowed with the words and was rivetted by those rare pictures of the man. […]
If you believe that eyes say it all , then do look closely at Khushwant Singh’s and you will know what I’m trying to put across. Even at 97, his eyes are that of a school boy’s.That’s because there seem to be no contradictions between what he says and what he thinks. Or to put it more aptly, there is no tussle between his head and heart …and that ‘s why those words and thoughts simply flow out. He writes, he speaks, spontaneously and without […]