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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It was my destiny, fate, luck or karma; call it whatever you like that brought me to Mumbai – a city which horrified me from the very beginning. A city known for almost all the wrong reasons- riots, floods, crime and the underworld. A million other atrocities plague this city which proudly calls itself ‘the […]
Strasbourg, according to an Internet search is the principal city of the Alsace region in the North-East of France and is close to the German-French border. It is situated on the Ill river and can boast of being a miniature representation of France with a flavour of Germany. The train ride from Stuttgart to Strasbourg […]
Deriving inspiration from the famous quote ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’, my companion Arjun and I embarked on a journey further south to the ancient city of Rome, the capital of Italy and a land of great historical significance. My hyper planning had given birth to a small red notebook whose pages were filled […]
Today as I walked back home from office, I came across this recently opened toy store in my already overcrowded, bursting at the seams neighbourhood. Usually the infamous Bangalore traffic is averse to the nickle and dime pedestrian and a slight negligence (even if it means trying to window shop) has harsh consequences. Despite all these lurking dangers […]
Getting up at five in the morning was never more exciting as it was on this particular Saturday morning. A cup of instant coffee, an instant shower and a scrumptious butter pretzel later, my friend and I were just in time to board our super cool, super fast TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, meaning high-speed […]
It has been all of one month since I arrived in Stuttgart and I can already claim to have visited four neighbouring countries. It’s as if I have wheels attached to my soles which do not allow me to spend a single weekend at home. The trip to Vienna and Salzburg was one of these […]