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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I often check my desires. They are often indicative of things I do not want. This desire to leave everything behind stems more from my need to run away from things, people, than from a need to actually be in a new place. That can’t be right, can it? It’s like wanting to marry so […]
Today, I shed a tear, For that child Who shivered, Cold in her shoes, Lanky in her clothes, Terrified in her errors. Today, I shed a tear, For the parents, Who, in their hurry, To protect their child From what the world could Do to her, forgot what they could. Today, I told myself, That […]
Of course, I have a favourite spot, In that little bistro It’s right by the window, In a corner, Precisely one ray of sunshine, And if I sit With my back to the crowd, I can pretend I am Alone. One cup of coffee, Filtered, Two sugars, demerara, Milk, a touch of cream. Hot. Very […]
It was a dark and stormy night. Expectedly, there had been a power failure in the neighbourhood. A few houses were quiet while raucous singing erupted from others as each little family dealt with the situation in their individual ways. Transistors belted songs from old Hindi films and the sounds and smells of cooking became […]
Today we discuss how you go about storing the things you shopped for. Because something as simple as this can ALSO be messed up. Seen your purchase wilting before time? Seen things rotting away despite storing them the what-you-thought-was-the-right-way? Try this then. ** Storing your haul: – Do not use polythene bags, – use re-usable […]
Just a list of quick things you can keep in mind while you spend time shopping for vegetables and spend time dishing up delicacies in your kitchen – you want solid good health packed into those pretty-looking, great-tasting dishes. That’s the trick I think, instead of trying to pass off a sad-tasting thing as healthy. […]
How to prepare for a slightly altered, healthier and greener life? Here is how.. – Never cut your veggies and store them– same thing goes for fruits, and for mincing, shredding, dicing, cubing, mashing etc etc. If you have a cut vegetable, use it within 10-15 minutes. This is especially true for onions and garlic […]
I have imagined, often, what it must feel like, to die. Do I gradually lose awareness of my body, one part at a time and slip away? Do I become excruciatingly aware of it as the mind recedes and the life force that I am makes its presence known? Is it painful? Is it relieving? […]
Some cities are motels. Others are luxury suites in a fancy five star hotel. Then there are those that are just waiting rooms, a place where you can sit down for a while but you know inside that you are going to leave any minute. ** But every once in a while, you arrive in […]
Recently, I did a massive kitchen detox and gave away certain utensils to the utensil shop near my place in exchange for stuff I really wanted. All the non- stick ware had to go. I have heard enough already about how Teflon wears off and how it starts leeching dangerous residue into our foods – […]
You should do things that make you happy. ** No, really. You may start out loving something because of certain reasons. I started out loving cooking because the man I loved, loved good food. It grew into baking, into picking organic over regular foods, over local produce over imported ingredients. It has come a long […]
Love is a need like no other.Love is matter.The terrible, unstable kind, yes?The wild, sweeping kind that rips every notion apart until only nothing remains. And you weep, your tears are diamonds. Or perhaps the luminescent, sublime kind. The soothing, balmy kind, that caresses every scar, contains tides until only stillness remains and your […]