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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Will you steal across my skies and sing like you did last time? Will you rumble, roar, pour and thunder, just like you did last time? Will you turn dark and angry, grey and blue, and will the sun look crimson wrapped in your fury? Will the tree sway and tell me then, you are […]
I am too old. I am too tired. It’s too late. I’ve a loan to pay off. My parents will kill me if I do this. My family depends on me for their bread and butter. I don’t have the finances. I have no time. I don’t think I am good enough to do it. […]
Your dreams tumble, Caught by delicate Silver cobwebs. Time slips by, and you think You have only so much time, Desperate, seeking, Running out of the time That you have allowed yourself, To find your dreams, shaped into real things, Things you can hold. But dreams are star dust And they sprinkle Over your universe […]
This is what she had wanted. With a maddening urgency and desperation, like thirst for water after a long spell of draught. So what if the rains came four months ago, and had drenched her. With moisture soaking into clothes, bones, walls, books, roofs. So what…she still wanted it to rain and rain and drench […]
It is 2:AM. And sub zero outside. When she exhales through her mouth, there is a tiny little fog. She does this on glass panes and traces odd shapes on it until they slowly disappear. There are people sitting around the room, laughing, talking, asking questions and giving answers, while she nods in agreement and […]
It flies over several horizons, sometimes chasing the sun, sometimes the moon, sometimes a constellation, in circles, in straight cut lines. But fly it does, across time and distance, over forests that have frozen over time into canyons and steep cliffs, over rivers that have turned to glacial masses, over seas that have crusted over […]
Sometimes, when I am travelling back home from work, I shut my eyes. In the bus, in the car, in the train. Sometimes, life around me is a bit too overwhelming, even for me. I work in an industry where advertising and selling form the core of my job. Everyday. Everyday, we come up with […]
Sometimes, when you look at those clothes in your wardrobe, you will remember many things. Interesting little bits, bought at reasonable and unreasonable prices. You will recall, clothes that are now, perhaps, in the cupboards of flood and earthquake victims, in the house of the utensil seller who gave you a saucepan in exchange for […]
Need I say more. Seriously need I say more? I love pancakes. I love pancakes because …well. Let us just stop talking and make these okay? Make them on the new year’s first Sunday as breakfast or on a day you know you will feel deep misery – like a Monday. I have them with […]
And it is going to be a brand new year soon and therefore, here’s a new list of things for you to do. I ask you to do them because I have the authority to, having done them myself. Get past your boundaries. Real freedom lies one to-do list away. – Talk to a tree, […]
You read right. I am not kidding you. This is the easiest and most exotic soup you can make. Well no, not as exotic as a cold soup can get but well, when did I ever say this is a cold soup? This is a hot soup and it must be eaten with breadsticks or […]
Doesn’t that sound heart warmingly nice? Let me really not keep you from this awesomeness. Just one little thing – once you read this, you must make this. If you do, your life will start making complete sense, the Milky Way will align in magical ways to make your dreams come true. And nothing has […]