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 poem was written by the author to express his outrage at the way a leopard was burned alive recently. If you would like to bring the perpetrators to justice…sign the petition below.. http://www.greenpeacex.in/petitions/leopard-burned-alive-in-uttarkhand-india-please-do-something hardly a day goes by and you are already a symbol a symbol of flickering outrage in front of a […]
A lot has been seen and heard about the new anti-domestic violence campaign by the ad agency Taproot India. Their “abused goddesses” ad has been making the rounds in social media websites, social networking sites and has received a lot of coverage in many newspapers and journals in India and around the world. Many newspapers have […]
So Asaram Bapu tried to get off the hook by claiming that the girl in question was mentally unstable. Apparently, so were her family members. Seemingly, this ploy did not work and Asaram Bapu now finds himself behind bars. My question is – for how long ? Do the politicians in India have the spunk […]
A fear lurks At the back of my mind What if…. What if…. our prayers crash against the stone-dead walls. and come back unheard? What then…. Another Nirbhaya? Another outcry? To wake up the corpse of This system? Let’s hope not…. Let’s hope…… They have felt our pain They have felt her pain in their heart.. […]
Fireworks were exploding over Sultanahmet square in Istanbul, as we strolled back after dinner. It was our last night in Turkey, a country that had thrown quite a few surprises our way, all of them pleasant. The term Turkish delight could be applied to more […]
Just recently, I penned a post about how parents could do their bit against the Rape Culture in raising children to be more sensitive and empathetic. The Chetan Bhagat tweet saga on Twitter was a classic example to the contrary. Mr Bhagat tweeted, “The Rupee is asking, is there no punishment for my rapists ?” […]
Yet another gang rape, yet another spate of protests and furor and now people are busy discussing and arguing whether Mumbai is going the Delhi way. To begin with, where does this question even come from ? Is one city safer than the other ? In India, there have been reports of tourists being gang […]
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 […]
And it starts again. Smriti Irani waving soap operatic fingers. Sanjay Raut blaming it all on Bangladeshi immigrants.Ministers reducing rape to rhetoric, screaming at each other in Rajya Sabha. People on the streets waving banners. Mumbai being labelled as a city of Maximum Horror just as Delhi was named the Rape Capital after the Nirbhaya […]
What is freedom? Does it mean the same thing to everyone? Or is it a relative perception? Something we define according to our conditioning not knowing that all the time, someone else or a set of circumstances are defining us without perhaps us being aware of it? I recently went to Mumbai to take part […]
I live in a colony called the National Media Centre in Gurgaon. It is one of the oldest housing societies in Gurgaon….well before the path of supposed progress made its way here with glass fronted buildings and unruly traffic increasing in direct proportion to basic amenities such as water, electricity and roads decreasing. ** A veritable […]