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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“Send me out into another life Lord…because this one is growing faint. I do not think, it goes all the way.” These lines from W.S Merwin’s poem, `Words From a Totem Animal‘ are quoted by Frances Mayes, in her best selling book Under The Tuscan Sun which deliciously, sensuously recounts the restoration of a rambling home in Italy and a […]
The houses we live in, we first inhabit in our imagination. I love writers who use their imagination to paint living breathing homes that stay within us long after the books they reside in are shut and put away. I love the gracious Manderley in Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca which is not […]
Through a splitting headache and waves of shock, the snapshots come back. But it is too early to write them down in past tense. Too early to say anything except that death puts it all into perspective. It reveals just how pointless is the negativity, the greed, the competitiveness, the toxic energy and ingratitude that […]
In a world where everyone is trying to be free… I have always wanted to belong to someone. My friends and I, we had a joke, that considering the amount of drama and entertainment I bring to the table in addition to the countless number of times I have had my heart broken, if life were […]
Selfishness is good? Am I out of my mind? Well, yes… I finally am out of my mind, after years and years of letting it do all the hard work! Our mind is a funny companion – always testing, criticizing, doubting, fearing, limiting and assuming! But then nothing in nature is useless or […]
Can you love someone, who is never there for you? Can you love someone, who always criticizes? Can you love someone, who is far away from you, in a different city? Can you love someone who doesn’t want to talk to you? Can you love someone who doesn’t love you back? And who […]
If you are like me, then you expect to be given what you have asked for. At least that is how I imagined the wish-fulfilling department of heaven worked! You check off items on a catalogue, place an order and then wait for it to arrive within the next 30 days. I gave up the 30 day rule a […]
Once again Draupadi finds herself Face to Face With Dushasanas…! That still prowl in this land, With new faces and new names! (But with same perverted minds) …………… Once again She finds herself Abandoned by The Bhishmas Sitting on high thrones Wringing their hands In impotent silence! …………………………….. Once again, She finds herself A […]
Standing in the checkout-line at a supermarket, I saw an ad for a weight-loss clinic go up on screen. It started with ”Ladies, do you HATE looking at yourself in the mirror? Do you want to be a page three yummy-mummy?” in bold letters with a blaring commentary to match. This was […]
It was a hectic morning as always. Driving for a full 10 minutes in rush hour Mumbai traffic and successfully crossing the grid-locked Khodadad circle, I was ascending the Tilak bridge at a crawl. Looking out of my window, I saw this beautiful and tall bougainvillea vine that had crawled on the top of a […]
The Sanjay Gandhi National Park or Borivali National Park, as it is popularly known, lies in the Northern suburb of Borivali, Mumbai. It is acres of forest surrounded by the traffic, noise and the chaos of one of the most populated cities in India. It is remarkable that such a large National Park exists INSIDE a […]
It’s no secret, how over the course of time, we tend to do things we don’t want to, loved people who didn’t love us back, got betrayed, hurt, wounded, until the heart was shredded apart…all of these, making small knots on the fabric of our soul, serving us as reminders…reminders so that we never let […]