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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“Le Corbusier has sought to create an architecture of passion in Chandigarh. His buildings-both in concept and visual language-have always been presented at a certain decibel level. No sotto-voce, no politeness but like Wagner-thunder in the concert hall.” This was how legendary architect Charles Correa described Le Corbusier’s design for the city of Chandigarh. He also […]
Every home is born first in the imagination, in the longing for the culmination of a dream. Only in some homes, the dream like quality never really leaves long after the walls have sprung up and every roof tile, every brick, pillar and window has found its place. The first time you see the Jade […]
“When an architect builds a glass tower in the middle of the Arabian desert, he justifies his design with a 100 different reasons-except possibly the real one, viz., that he is trying to (unconsciously) recreate for his clients, the mythic imagery of what to them is the quintessential city of the 20th century: Houston, Texas,” […]
LikeThatOnly’s signage befuddles me to start with. It is like..a jaunty scooter developed butterfly wings that turned into a Japanese fan. But then who said dreams should make sense and that is what this young, spirited restaurant in Bangalore’s Whitefield is. A dream sequence right from the whimsical tub with its watering can shower in the […]
It is Saturday night. Over roasted pumpkin soup, lawn cooled breeze and tinkling water that gleams in a long horizontal ribbon next to my feet, I feel a bit displaced. This is Bangalore, right? Just a few hours ago, I was choking over traffic fumes as I made my way to Alila, a relatively new hotel […]
Bridges are spaces. Bridges are places, where people meet other people, enjoy their surroundings, and experience being part of a community. Though a mode of transit, bridges can be magnets for public activity and fun. Bridges not only connect land to land, but also have an impact on adjacent parks, industries and residential communities, and […]
This morning I was driving my usual route to work, and noticed vast emptiness. No, not within! But in the Sunnyvale (California) cityscape. Between last night’s drive back home and this morning’s commute to work, the sight of a fan like building with its imposing overhangs and cantilevers I used to admire everyday, two times […]
Take a small detour from the famous Spice Route of old into a relatively undiscovered part of rural Rajasthan and one of the world’s only open-air art galleries. Painted houses fade like painted ladies of old. Their stately presence, battered shutters and pigeon filled lofts disguise an ancient beauty now fading into red tinged sunsets. […]
A couple of years after I moved to Mumbai, a Bangalore friend of mine asked me if I missed living in Bangalore. I told him I did. He waited for me to add something to that response. After a while, he asked me whether I would consider moving back to Bangalore. I told him I […]
When you arrive at Chandra and Anal Jain’s home, you walk into a radiant energy field. The couple belong to a certain lost age of refinement, unconditional warmth and hospitality that translates into tall glasses of lemonades, cheese crackers with olives, health advice, life questions, easy but deep conversations that begin sometime in the afternoon […]
A drive to Hasserghatta in Bangalore shifts perspectives slowly but surely about the kind of city we live in. Yes, we have to first pass through Bangalore’s sooty lungs but then arrive the colonies of banyans, the silver oak avenues, the gentle green hamlets and simple rusticity. Though truth be told, like every where else in the city, you don’t really know just […]
” Do not once think that you are here as a result of chance or coincidence,” the folks at Our Native Village, an ecologically sensitive and restorative resort, will have you believe. So if you have been longing to fill a big void where there once was a simpler way of life and if you are […]