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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Have you ever wanted to watch a match in the stadium but could not because it’s held in another city, far away from where you live? Have you ever been subject to one of the most torturously boring things, like watching a nail-biting cricket match alone? Even if you got all the jazz – popcorn, […]
Disasters. The word itself is intimidating and going through them, unimaginable. And then some are natural and some absolutely unnatural. Like this one I recall… There was once in my life, a ‘Big uncle”. I used to call him Big Uncle, because, well, he was very big! We are a family of tiny people and […]
Little Chuhi Zuhi is upset that mice from her family steal food from other’s houses, much against her brother, Chuha Zuha’s wishes that she should act like a normal mouse. Read this heart-warming, lyrical story about a mouse who dares to be different, stands by her principles and beliefs, and shows that it’s ok to […]
He was among the very few who kept khadi living in his uniform, and carried a jhola brimming with emotions and messages, from across miles and miles. Postman chacha, I’ve seen him grow since I was a baby; his hair going from black to a pepper spray. I got my Tobu cycle. Then a BSA […]
I opened the door in the morning to look for the newspaper. But I couldn’t see it. Instead there were heaps of some other sheets. Ah! There it was! Buried underneath… I gathered all the sheets and the newspaper and bolted the door behind me. The sheets seemed more like pieces of colourful satin and […]
The Mumbai trains are like a country within a country. Most people who use it to commute call it a “life-line” that takes them to work so that they can provide for their families. Every person who uses it has a new story to tell each day and with nearly seven million people travelling on a daily basis, all one can do is listen and marvel…
This poem underscores the lives led by many a woman in India. Many traditions believe that cats lead nine lives. And the title is an analogy to the fact that cats survive life threatening situations in a very natural manner. Just like it’s a way of life for these women too… Nine Lives As tender […]
Even after leaving the city for nearly eight years, my life in Mumbai has left an indelible mark on everything I think, say, or do. Here is a series of free form poems titled “Bombaiyaa” that reflect life in Bombay, that tell a true story about how some things were, how some things still are… […]
Some time back I watched The Blue Umbrella, a children’s movie based on a novella by Ruskin Bond, and directed by one of my favourite movie makers, Vishal Bharadwaj, known to make movies out of books. And I watched it again. Not because Tata Sky Showcase played it for 12 hours of the day, but […]
This one’s for all the women who saw this world only through their ghoonghat. For all those women who could not step beyond their door. For all those who want to break free. For all those who just want to be… I guess it’s her birthday today. How pretty she looks when she is sleeping! […]