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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The State government in Manipur is forcefully evicting families living on Loktak. Since Tuesday, the State police has used brute force to chase alleged illegal settlers away from their homes, including burning nearly 200 huts. It is being alleged that the eviction is in fact a security operation, and not to preserve the environment under […]
Indian retailers suffered the highest loss of stocks to theft in the world for the fifth year in a row in 2011. Half of this loss was attributed to shoplifting by customers. The silver lining here was that India is the world’s only country where the shrink rate (loss of stocks because of thefts by […]
Some time back, the brief marriage of socialite and reality TV star Kim Kardashian broke up amid speculations that it was all a publicity stunt. Publicity is big business today and those who are famous at times do not even need to do anything worthwhile to earn their fame. They are famous and just by […]
“I have a feeling that we are going to be a generation which is going to fail this country,” I remember my father saying to some friends of his in Kota, Rajasthan, where he was posted between 1970 and 1973 and where we went to school when we were really young. ‘We have fallen into […]
An ill-conceived move by the Karnataka government allowing the extension of working hours for women working in the IT industry in Bangalore is drawing flak both from women and IT professionals. IT companies in Bangalore at a recent conference had adopted a resolution urging the government to extend working hours deadline for female employees to […]
Food prices in India continue to rise when international prices are stable because of the failure of domestic food management, wherein temporary shortages have led to price spikes, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said. Over the past two years, wholesale food prices have increased by 40 per cent much more than during the mid-1990s […]
I woke up some time back to the disturbing picture in the papers, of a 14-year-old housemaid who was battered by a TV starlet for having eaten some shrikhand from her refrigerator without taking her permission. I have been watching some discussions on television on the subject but there are no solutions. Should children be […]
Her helpless eyes were moist. Not from the rain. But there was nothing I could do to save her. Tears rolled down my cheeks and onto hers. It was time to part ways. I had known Radha since I was a kid. She was extremely docile and cute. We almost grew up together. She was […]
It’s 3.41:am and I am awakened by a gory nightmare. My sister’s foot is being ripped off by an overgrown beast. As if that were not enough, another beast joins in to feast on the severed limb as I struggle to pull her off to safety. But we are outnumbered. My body freezes at […]
Someone very wise once said,“A worn out newspaper can last forever!” This is a brave statement to make in a world where the tap root of consumerism lies in greed for more and wastefulness of both natural and man made resources. The question to ask really is just how much greed can the planet accommodate? […]
On August 14, 2004, Dhananjaya Chatterjee, 39,was hanged in Calcutta’s Alipore Central Jail for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh who he had stalked and hounded for a long time. Hetal, still just a child, had not been able to share her torment with her parents. She had been too afraid. Chatterjee, a […]
As crowds gather to occupy Wall Street in one part of the world, people jubilant at the end of dictatorship in another celebrated their freedom in macabre and bloody images and I wonder if a similar angst is existent in us, and if it can be fueled by injustice to an extent that we too can […]