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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She waved good bye as she left for school, trying to manage her raincoat hood and blue umbrella – her own little sky, as she’d always quip. Her tiny shoulders bearing the weight of her school bag and this world. I watched from the window as she sneaked a peek through her umbrella to enjoy […]
The neem tree.. it swayed gently green… so green right outside my window. Beautiful, majestic, grand. The home of squirrels..and the birds. It buzzed with the symphony of life while I stared at it dreamily many a morning and then last evening.. I saw my beloved tree naked..stripped off all her glorious leaves and her […]
Wipro has retained the top slot in environmental NGO Greenpeace’s latest Guide to Greener Electronics. HCL Infosystem is placed second in the Indian version. The international version ranks the IT manufacturing company HP at the top, taking the lead over Dell and Nokia. Three new companies are included in the latest version of the guide. […]
The State government in Manipur is forcefully evicting families living on Loktak. Since Tuesday, the State police has used brute force to chase alleged illegal settlers away from their homes, including burning nearly 200 huts. It is being alleged that the eviction is in fact a security operation, and not to preserve the environment under […]
Someone very wise once said,“A worn out newspaper can last forever!” This is a brave statement to make in a world where the tap root of consumerism lies in greed for more and wastefulness of both natural and man made resources. The question to ask really is just how much greed can the planet accommodate? […]
When Manas National Park was removed from the UNESCO World Heritage Danger List in June this year, there was a lot to cheer about. The hard work put in by conservation groups has been recognised, but a bigger danger lies in the future — one that can virtually wash away the national park. Well, almost. […]
To make a jungle safari spine-chilling, breathtaking, and totally remarkable, you will need a driver-cum-guide who knows the jungle like the back of his hand, a freshly prepared unfenced camp site, a lean and dark Masai for protection, eerie animal sounds to garnish the night, and heaps and heaps of good luck for animal sightings. […]
On the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a friend sent to me some documentary footage about the day when nothing out of the ordinary had happened in Hiroshima. People were working, heeding traffic lights, having tea and then in a few seconds, like a survivor recalls, from a efficient town going quietly about the […]
A live wire left unattended on ground killed Sunita, a little school girl a few days back in Bangalore. A rag picker also fell in an open drain and died. These are not stray incidents. They happen time and again to claim lives randomly in a city falling apart at its seams. A wall falls, killing a young girl and the blame is […]
If you live in Bangalore, hacked limbs of trees piled up by the roadside are commonplace. Avenues once drenched in the deep, dense shade of tree canopies are today rubble strewn, choking with traffic. Trees that have been part of our cityscape and memories for decades are suddenly found butchered to death and heaped together in […]
Like most people, I love watching the rains. A nice downpour is the time to sit with a hot cup of chai , listen to some lovely music and unwind. Who hasn’t gladly put off chores just because it was raining? So when I heard I had to travel to Calicut in Kerala during the […]
June is the month for mangoes and mango eating. My grandfather would say that we should eat nothing but mangoes during this season, accompanied by glasses of milk. Eww…I can’t handle the milk part. But mangoes! Green mango rice with ground mustard and green chillies, mango panna with cardamom and jaggery, mango lassi, mango kulfi, mango […]