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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Unboxed Writers was ideated as a counterpoint to the lack of respect for creativity in corporate contexts but if I told author and playwright Vijay Nair that, he would laugh. Politely of course for he is a gentleman and I am saying this without Shakespearean irony. He really is. But he has observed the […]
Siddhartha Sarma’s East of the Sun reminded me of something I had almost forgotten. The pleasure of being a journalist and the joy of encountering something that urgently warrants a stream-of-consciousness piece. East of the Sun is about an itch to travel..an itch that loops itself around the brain like an ushakeable song. It is about the lure of the […]
Author Jahnavi Barua does not carry the burden of history though her writing easily, without making a ceremony of it, touches its frayed seams, its tautly pulsing, raw nerves. There is no attempt to rub the reader’s nose in the politics of the North-East, a region she is deeply connected to because she grew up there. Instead she creates stories and […]
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 […]