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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One story that I read after an earthquake crippled Gujarat in 2001, has remained with me. It was about how a prosperous resident of a multi-storeyed apartment block in a city had violated construction rules and built a pool for himself on the common terrace. When the quake shook the building, the pool crashed with […]
I am an architect and a Bharatnatyam dancer and am fascinated with the relationship between the arts and architecture. And I have been on a fabulous journey to explore the connection between a static and a performing art since both complete me. The origin of this classical Indian dance form is rooted in a very interesting mythologyical story. It is said that the world […]
A few winters ago and a long train journey later, I landed in Jamshedpur. Same afternoon was a 35kms away road trip to Jadugoda, the first township established by The Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL) IN 1965. The notoriously-uranium-rich deposit at Jaduguda has been under exploitation since 1962, the only underground mine in India amongst […]