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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It’s a close up of a man’s face – the eyes are closed, a slight smile hovers around the lips and the stark-white background brings into sharp focus every detail of a shaven head. The work is self-referential and focuses on the conceptual presentation of self portraiture. To most of us, this may seem like […]
For someone who graduated as a communications engineer and then followed it up with a management degree from FMS, Delhi, a career in the corporate world would be a natural choice. But not for Ravi Agarwal who, despite being “an academic achiever”, chucked it all to pursue photography. It was an engagement he had discovered […]
I just love colours. And with Holi around the corner, my camera found heaps of it everywhere. These images were shot in the lanes close to the famous Maha Kali temple in Hyderabad over a period of three days. Here a certain system is in place to display, package and sell coloured powder. So powder (on the right) is put […]
Every food or design journalist in Bangalore has at some point worked with photographer Sanjay Ramachandran. He is professional in an unobtrusive kind of way. Easy going, laidback, modest. There are no rough edges or temper tantrums. His ego if he has one is visible only in his prolific output as he shoots almost every day of the month for a host of magazines, […]
A few winters ago and a long train journey later, I landed in Jamshedpur. Same afternoon was a 35kms away road trip to Jadugoda, the first township established by The Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL) IN 1965. The notoriously-uranium-rich deposit at Jaduguda has been under exploitation since 1962, the only underground mine in India amongst […]
I met Vivek Mathew years ago at his first photography show and he has progressively delved deeper and deeper in the core of his passion for images, for light and shadows, for the ripple of textures, for the music of silence and photographed the most unlikely of objects and themes with startling perspective and insight. It is easy […]