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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An idea, waiting to happen. where we think big, aim small try hard, or not at all we see the future bright, we see the future sharp we see it as a vision clear, straight from the heart And sometimes.. just as a.. snapshot, an opinion, a word, a blog That’s what India is all […]
So we went to Goa. Again. It is such a lovely place. I plan to retire there you know, like some 40 million others… buy a small plot of land near the sea, open a shack, not do much, eat a lot, go for walks and hang out with the locals. I love the […]
I read Fifty Shades of Grey yesterday. According to wiki (and because I cannot be bothered to think of new ways to say the same things): Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic novel by British author E. L. James. Set largely in Seattle, it is the first instalment in a trilogy that traces […]
They clucked around him in eager anticipation as he chopped a special treat for them… last evening, he chopped one of them as a special treat for himself on the same wooden block. Those hens, reminded me of someone. oh yes, human beings. we get bruised, beaten and betrayed but we still clamour for carrots. No […]
When our daughter first started going to play school, I was beyond excited. My girl was a big girl. I positively loved checking her diary each day to see what they had been up to. When we heard she had to dress like a flower for some role play thing, I went a little mad. […]
The other day, I picked a fridge magnet that read; ‘Mirror mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all’. I liked the line; I liked the quirky design of the magnet. But most of all, the line hit home. My Amma and I, like I often say, are poles apart. We have nothing in […]
Following a conversation about the trouble with birthday parties, a wiser friend called and suggested something very simple. It made a lot of sense and hence it finds itself replicated here. Birthday invites tend to come in at the eleventh hour… then begins the rush for finding a suitable gift and packing it. There is always […]
I didn’t climb a mountain I didn’t climb a tree but I feel a lot better I feel free we didn’t talk of troubles we didn’t go on a shopping spree but I feel lighter I feel free bring on the worries bring on the woes I am ready for the battle today three months down the lane, who knows […]
I remember the days I used to come home from the playground to find my grand-mom (my mother’s mom) and my dad arguing loudly. She called him a cheat. He would respond in kind. They would glower at each other and walk their separate ways. The fight was always about a game of carrom. Granny […]
Can I be like you? You, who has lived and never learnt, To feel the bitterness That life has to offer… Can I be like you, little girl The one who has been cheated But still bears no grouse And is willing to give it one more try? Can I be like you? You … […]
Sometimes I think of those people, who touched my life briefly and vanished when a current triggers a buried memory when a word, a song brings forth a face when I am traveling and have nothing to read I think of them and wonder where they are today and why we fell out of touch. […]
There are a lot of things that are not going right. With Murphy working overtime and PMS doing its bit, life has been pretty miserable. Until this morning… When I received an SMS from someone I consider worthwhile with news that is more than worthwhile and then a little later, as I sat on the […]