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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Passion is something that one follows in spite of adverse conditions. It is a drive that is constantly at work, irrespective of circumstances, difficulties or odds. A lukewarm desire which fails or keeps deviating with time and obstacles can hardly be called as passion. Passion largely succeeds; if it doesn’t, it becomes an under […]
Pain seeps in Deep.. Deeper in us Hopes break trust shakes faith dwindles..fades Life is not mathematics The calculations fail us Logic fails us.. Thoughts crumble Success..the craving for it… fades Don’t sulk at the truth When you face it There will be resurgence Fake hopes glitter for a while But truth prevails And if you deny not, to […]
Stress should not be added to stress. In fact stress can be used as a driving force to solve any issue at hand. A lot depends on the way in which one perceives stress. Stress should be understood as a sign to prepare oneself to solve an existing problem so that it does not become a […]
Untie the last knot of bonds And drop each fetter like a tear drop Breathe! You will be free If ever you were tied. Dry now like the arid land… Vast and directionless you shall be But feisty and lively like the graceful river Your soul will reach its coveted sea. Love is not a stagnant […]
Life is short and there is so much to do. Life, like a lover, is drawn towards death. But there is so much that I need to do still. I need to restart that painting which I had left half done and I hope to write a couple of poems after having returned from the […]
In the town of confusion There’s a tree of serenity… In the soil of loneliness Grew a seed of aloneness Watching waiting wandering The seed reached the river And now the river flows Nowhere somewhere everywhere It knows the name of its destination But the paths are untrodden unknown Hardly does it matter though To […]
Having been exposed to the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, the biography of Ramakrishna (a mystic and the spiritual master of Vivekananda) and Bimal Roy’s movies, my heart yearned to experience this land called West Bengal. I reached Kolkata in early March and my cousin broached the subject of Dakshineshwar temple, the abode of goddess Kali […]
Time takes away the beauty of all Gross living and subtle It takes away The charm of youth The riches of the rich The will of the strong and The ‘I’ of the ego Nothing remains; all perishes Time is the killer Time the killed In ephemeral.. lies the truth Eternal beauty underneath Time is […]
I see a 15 or 16-year-old adolescent. I observe her facial features – droopy, flickering eyes, her body language – waving, abrupt gestures while laughing, legs in careless disarray while sitting, and her speech – impulsive and uncertain, at times ignorantly rude. I observe her clothing – undersized. Glaring pink and orange top paired with […]
When a chord in struck simultaneously in many hearts and a vast number of people are stirred by a common cause, a mass movement is born. A mass movement is triggered because a cause moves the sentiments and/or justifies the rationale of many. It is a breakthrough of the seemingly weak against the so-called powerful. […]
To live a life in the unknown is to live innocently. It means to live without asking and seeking information about existential questions. Sounds complex? Let me give you an example. Suppose, one has to go on a date. To live innocently is to simply go without pre-gathering information about what ‘usually’ happens on a […]
I saw a young boy apply sudden breaks to his bicycle as it was about to run over the corpse of a crow. Perhaps the bird had tried to fly prematurely and had met with an accident. A question suddenly popped in my head– Why did the young boy consciously prevent his bicycle from running over […]