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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This essay is not an attempt to judge people. It is for self observation and self improvement. There are six types of people. Type 1:Ignorant and oblivious to their ignorance. Type 2: Ignorant who know that they are ignorant but do nothing about it. Type 3: Ignorant who know that they are ignorant and […]
This rapture called life I am a sucker for it Moment after moment I succumb to her Pulse after pulse she engulfs me This obsession called life I am her victim With carnal craving I hold her Swiftly and stealthily she dodges me This drug called life I am her addict Consciously.. unconsciously I […]
Let me start off by stating that it is through JP Das’ writings and narrations I have known and grasped the different aspects of Orissa’s history, traditions and its people. His writings remain focussed on the ground realities .And he is one of those bureaucrats who have had the grit to take premature retirement from the […]
Have you ever thought about completely going off the grid? Deactivating your Facebook, switching off your cell phone? Deleting your twitter, tumblr, wordpress, flickr, blog and all accounts that keep an account of your life? Disabling your email, going off WhatsApp? Disconnecting your landline, and while you’re at it maybe even switching off your […]
So here is the thing. We are living in an India where voices can be muffled, and young cartoonists can be jailed for creative dissent and protesters can be beaten up and shown that the State is intolerant of inconvenient points-of-view whether they are about dams or nuclear plants or corruption. And it is […]
Sometime in 2006, United 93, a taut, almost unemotional account of the fourth hijacked plane that did not reach its destination on the morning of September 11 , 2001 hit the theatres. What moved me about the film was its intention to not manipulate the emotions of viewers who had on one terrible morning learnt […]
Sometimes I think about the life I’m living I seem to take more than I’m giving More vengeful than forgiving More reluctant than willing Cynical without believing Need to start emptying the bad So the goodness can start filling The opposite of death is not life but birth, And we make that journey to figure […]
I want to listen… To the sound of fireworks To the sound of nervous breaths To the sound of hearts beating To the sound of lips kissing. To happy smiles To the tears that over-whelm To joyous thoughts To naïve excitement. To the chirping birds To the flowing river To the whooshing wind To the silent […]
As I turn 25, looking quarter-life crisis squarely in the eye, I’ve realised that my life has not been short of its share of drama. Just going back four years could offer to be one of the most thrilling roller coaster rides I’ve been on. More importantly, other than shaping you into the person you will […]
Most Indian parents follow a religion of making available to their kids all they missed out on. Some go a step further; wanting to give their kids all that they did not have plus what they think the next generation should have. A sport was on one such wish list for our girls. We […]
Pic: courtesy the author Today, I woke up to grey skies and rain. Incessant, revitalising, cleansing rain. Today is not a day to be with people. It is a day to be spent with the self. It is a day for solitude and silence. To listen to the voice of our soul. To introspect, to […]
The rush of blood to the head. The tingle in the spine as Rocky Balboa locks his eyes squarely with James ‘Clubber’ Lang in Sylvester after fighting his demons and running through walls of fear to the tune of Gonna Fly Now and Survivor’s smash hit Eye of The Tiger. And the lines. Apollo Creed […]