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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There are a lot of things that are not going right. With Murphy working overtime and PMS doing its bit, life has been pretty miserable. Until this morning… When I received an SMS from someone I consider worthwhile with news that is more than worthwhile and then a little later, as I sat on the […]
The wings of the wind, whisper words withered at the corners, while flying from your side of the ocean to mine, But they drown in the noise, and I try to find the broken shards of your words, but there are none.. When we were together , we watched our hearts dance in the frenzied […]
Pack me tonight, Pack my heart, Pack my pain, Pack my smiles Pack me and take me..to your safest place. Or Unpack me and watch me overtake all of your mysteries. Or Lets pack, travel and unravel continents of our hearts. Hear me! Hark, unchain me Or chain me forever! I hate to be lonely. […]
Listen to life..There is no strife. Lovingly share from the heart Wondering about its art Together Seeing .. Not seeking Possibilities of co-creation In the midst of conflict Of the verse in the midst of What’s adverse Of the song, the voice in the middle of the noise Because .. Deep inside it all Lies […]
Pain seeps in Deep.. Deeper in us Hopes break trust shakes faith dwindles..fades Life is not mathematics The calculations fail us Logic fails us.. Thoughts crumble Success..the craving for it… fades Don’t sulk at the truth When you face it There will be resurgence Fake hopes glitter for a while But truth prevails And if you deny not, to […]
Relationships, too bitter, at times too hasty, Like a pinch of salt, Sometimes like a shot in a glass, burning your insides, Snapping into pieces, even before the rust sets in, Black like a coal from within, pearl white from the outside, Throbbing like a painful nerve, pumping memories dusty, Like the breathless floods, that […]
So many, and yet none… And yet one So much to say, but so in love with silence, So infatuated with control, but deep in love with uncertainty, So many beautiful illusions, but so in love with reality… So much love, at the right time and in the right ways… Ways so perfect, that you […]
The neem tree.. it swayed gently green… so green right outside my window. Beautiful, majestic, grand. The home of squirrels..and the birds. It buzzed with the symphony of life while I stared at it dreamily many a morning and then last evening.. I saw my beloved tree naked..stripped off all her glorious leaves and her […]
Plenty has happened. Plenty to go. We are at the crux where the road can take us anywhere. To the top. To the pits. Across. Within. No place. Every place. There are so many thoughts in my head that the words are all rushing in causing a jam at the fingertips.
Human I am I am human cells few a couple of tissues blood and flesh and a brain to think a heart to feel and a mind somewhere in between to fly above reach further to be one with the One who created who will destroy to recreate an endless loop a continuous cycle some […]
Life is but a delicate web, spun with fine threads of faith, coloured by our dreams, textured by our fate. Fragile butterfly wings, are such ephemeral things, in their innocent swing, lies the destruction of a hurricane’s spin. A grain of dust, negligible, to say the least, in the hands of time and tide, is […]
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 […]