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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Writer Rani Rao Innes pens an insightful three-part story about the need for freedom and the desire for roots, exclusively for the readers of Unboxed Writers. “Are you out of your mind?” Maya was looking at her with a mixture of concern and exasperation. They were sitting in the little balcony of Maya’s flat sipping chai […]
Writer Rani Rao Innes pens an insightful three-part story about the need for freedom and the desire for roots, exclusively for the readers of Unboxed Writers. She could not believe she had missed her flight at such a time in her life. Her wedding was in a week. Most of her extended family had already reached Bangalore. […]
She stood on the balcony and gratefully inhaled the heady smells of rain splattered mud, jasmine and cow dung. The sky was clear but it had rained during the day. Memories came flooding back as she gazed at the fronds of coconut trees reaching out from the back yard next door. The colours of the […]
My groan at the strident sound of the early morning alarm changed to a slow warm smile as my barely opened eyes found the ‘prize’ proudly hanging on the wall opposite the bed. Invariably the first thing to catch my eye most mornings, it unfailingly cheered me. But to go back a little, we’d always considered […]
“Look at the mouth, at the tongue,” I’d say to my Japanese students, while exaggerating the sound of ‘llll’. Then again, “Roll your tongue” for the sound ‘rrrr’. “Can you see the difference? Can you hear the difference?” “rrrr, llll’, rrrr’, llll” consecutively, followed by an exaggerated “rred lleather, yellllow lleather, rrrred lllleather, yellllow lllleather”. […]