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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I read Fifty Shades of Grey yesterday. According to wiki (and because I cannot be bothered to think of new ways to say the same things): Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic novel by British author E. L. James. Set largely in Seattle, it is the first instalment in a trilogy that traces […]
Recently I made a new penpal in America. Here’s a copy of the first letter I posted. Dear Holly Wood, I hope you are doing well. I know you have been awfully busy trying to come up with all sorts of movies, and I understood from your last letter that you are feeling extraordinarily stressed […]
“So, how are you going to travel to Mumbai? Train?” asked my grandmother when I called to tell her that I am travelling to the city of dreams for the first time on work. I said, “Ajji, they’re sending me by flight. Indian Airlines from Bangalore to Mumbai and Kingfisher on my way back home.” What […]
Well, here are a few completely useless but amusing facts..just in case you need to amuse yourself.. On an average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. ( Just switch to ink pens.) It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs. (Why would you want to try that?) The electric chair […]
I didn’t climb a mountain I didn’t climb a tree but I feel a lot better I feel free we didn’t talk of troubles we didn’t go on a shopping spree but I feel lighter I feel free bring on the worries bring on the woes I am ready for the battle today three months down the lane, who knows […]
So David Guetta played at the HUDA grounds in Delhi. The crowd? Well, there were girls in formal gowns. I imagined what they must have said to each other before dressing formal. “C’mon we are going for a live concert, you know what that means? Pull out that gown I wore to Shilu’s reception! Yes, […]
Sliding up the escalator They fell in love. In the food court they confessed it. A movie snipped the distances between. A little shopping cemented their bond. In a glittering trinket shop .. They exchanged rings. And merrily loitered through the mall alleys And plch! And met their forbidden past. The lovers they once loved. […]
This is something many of you will identify with– the day you actually took a car out on your first drive. I must add, though, that the motor training experiments do not exactly qualify as “first drives” for obvious reasons. The genesis of this piece can be traced back to about quarter of a century […]
Why? Why does the power go off while you are watching your favourite movie but not in the middle of cricket matches or grandma’s devotional programs? Why do the phone and the door bell ring simultaneously when you’ve applied your face pack? Why do you have visitors ringing your doorbell when you’ve called it a day […]
You are light and nice just spiced right with a little bit of pickle you are the best diet dear curd rice, dear curd rice … on hot summer days I crave for you on stomach upset days I’d kill for you dear curd rice, dear curd rice … some say you are boring some say you […]
I was surfing the net and came across this piece that claimed to be able to tell a person’s personality type by the food they liked. Mine would have been ‘Blubber Queen’ but then I didn’t take the test. I mean, what is the point? Right? Right. It got me thinking though. What are my […]
I have nothing against weddings. They can be emotional and funny, colourful and sweet. By virtue of being a tam-brahm, I have had the privilege to watch tam-brahm weddings from close quarters. Hell, I even had one of those. They can be entertaining. Well, most times. Except when they happen in Delhi. In mid-April. And […]