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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Ever since I saw Raj Kapoor and Nargis in the song, Pyar Hua Ikraar Hua, my idea of monsoon romance was sealed; a single umbrella with me hanging onto a love that could have very well been my Siamese soul. But that was a long time ago. As time passed by, along with shedding all […]
In a packed Ranga Shankara auditorium (with producer Nimi Ravindran conscientiously paying auto fares to all those who could not get tickets and had to go home) on a Sunday afternoon, the second last show of Ajay Krishnan’s hit play Butter and Mashed Banana induced tears of laughter. And then some thought. And how is this for a […]
As proud card-carrying members of the Tamil Brahmin community or Tam Brahms (as the endearment goes), Mr and Mrs Iyer looked high and low for a suitable match for their only daughter. Now, you must understand it was no easy task. The apple of their eyes had several drawbacks, chief amongst them being that she: […]
There’s a problem with our TV dish antennae in the building. It moves from its original place on the terrace, at least once every month. My mom suspects sabotage; I think it’s just the wind. But because of this, I can’t watch TV until I make a call to the company’s call centre in Indore (We are in Mumbai). […]
Remember when hacking was something you did with horses? Remember when you dropped friends or just ‘lost touch’ with them deliberately? Remember when doctors gave you a medicine for a virus? Remember when tagging was something done in a clothing factory?
Once upon a time, long before you, me or even the hero of this story was born, there lived a vivacious duck called Duckie who fell madly in love with Rake, a handsome drake. Everybody warned her he was only after one thing but she ignored them and foolishly went headlong into the relationship. […]
“I don’t think, you read. Ask people who know about books to tell you which ones should be reviewed,” thus spake the boss. For the fourth time possibly. “We do read, sir,” I finally said. Carefully, removing the ‘I’ from the debate. ‘I’ was not a word you used EVER during the weekly meeting. “I […]
Once upon a time, in a sleepy little kingdom in the Deccan plateau, lived a tall, dark and average looking King, his dusky Queen and 365 concubines (one for each day of the year). This arrangement worked rather well because the Deccan Queen complained of headaches every night and claimed that her European doctor had […]
Though technology may change over time, the typically Indian longing to know cricket scores, does not
Sometimes you see someone who makes your pulse rate accelerate like a Harley Davidson. You like! You like! You like! Unfortunately, you’re far too old to point a finger and say ‘Daddy get me that hunk for my birthday’. So how do you get the man of your fantasies to notice that you exist? 1. […]
I’ve often wondered why articles on break ups strongly advise heart-broken women to rush to a hairdresser. Can a new hairstyle really wash that man right out of your hair? Or are those advice columnists suggesting that the sod left you because your hairdo was atrocious? Ridiculous! It’s far better to organise a night out […]
Have you ever wondered why dumb-blond jokes are only about women? The truth is, there are lots of men out there who (even if their hair is jet black) have decidedly blond roots. You may not notice at first because love isn’t just blind, it’s deaf too. But after your hormones have calmed down, you […]