The Story ..

The Story ..

  It’s not love but the story we fall for the story we seek in the mundane, the ordinary, the predictable we look for signs for stars in dust for songs to come alive for messengers to arrive from distant lands bringing gifts of hope, faith and trust of answers to questions dragging their feet […]

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Democracy Is Such A Lonely Word..

Democracy Is Such A Lonely Word..

    “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”-Benjamin Franklin ** It is 10 am and  near Bangalore’s Austin Town Circle, a crowd is slowly gathering around the Ambedkar statue. Young students from St Joseph’s college, volunteers from NGOs, nuns, workers of assorted political parties, […]

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Infamy As Fame

Infamy As Fame

Guilt today is a global media event. So when Lance Armstrong finally answered the big question about his integrity in the widely televised interview with a, “I’m not the most believable guy in the world right now,” Oprah Winfrey almost brought back her under-performing OWN network from the brink. Lance could have given a newspaper […]

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Painting A Dream

Painting A Dream

  She reminds me of Umrao because she really was. The young Umrao in Muzaffar Ali’s 1981 classic film, I mean. Years later I met her as an artist in her own right, not just as the daughter of MS Sathyu and writer Shama Zaidi. ** Recently, I met her again at the Sathyu home […]

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Memory..

Memory..

The needle point of  pain is fire and ice it’s the knowing and the not knowing the near and the far presence and absence the found and the lost A pain both old and young that knows how to smile at itself and be petulant. It is home in the cozy grooves of the heart. […]

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Beyond The Impossible

Beyond The Impossible

 The Impossible opens to the shot of a blank screen roaring like the sea..as if gathering all its might for a kill but then you realise it is just an airplane carrying a family away to a Christmas vacation. The family of five..unpacks mundane conversations in a picture perfect tropical beach resort just a few […]

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