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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Polka dotted joie-de vivre, Black-and-white… soundless laughter, Curly wrist hair, droopy lids..bulbous eyes, Miss Nimbupani, Miss Fonseca, Mr Bundaldass, Hatch lines, Horizontal, vertical, slanting, busy lines, Church spires, Cloudy beer in a yellow mug, Flowered umbrellas, Bendy palms, Orange moons, Still lakes, Bobbing boats, Sloping roofs, Wide eyed cats, Movement in stillness, Stillness in movement, […]
Its Christmas time! Have you any idea how gorgeous Bandra, Hill road would be just about now? They would have stalls upon stalls full of Christmas decorations and trees … Stars and angels and shiny disco balls. They would have plum cake and marzipans and those milky chocolate things. There would be people shopping and […]
How can pain be forced to move down Away from the eyes So that it’s just a burning hole in my stomach? How shall I stave all thoughts of her voice As she peremptorily Walks in the house Bell a-jingling Down the spiral staircase From the neighbour’s roofs, the driveway In through the gate Rusty self […]
Muscles and bones Ache and groan The injury, forgotten The pain remembered Actions and gestures Tears and bonds The gaps, monumental The memories remain Torn with concern Anguish and sympathy Whom do I hurt for? The one who is distressed physically Or the one who doesn’t even know?
Ask no questions, get no lies Hear no sound, hear no cries Sympathy, Empathy… wasted words Hello no more, no more byes Sluggish rivers, blackened skies No more hows, no more whys Stalled connections, crossed swords Bleeding ulcers, heartfelt sighs.
You reach out and caress my neck And look magnificent in glimpses I twirl but poise eludes me There is no sense of gravity.. My eyes can’t keep up with you Though the heart leaps, matching your feet Wrap your arms around me and glide in poetry I have waited and longed To one day be swept […]
Reproach me for the mistakes I have made, Protect me from those who will break my heart, Tell me your love is enough, and I don’t have to look anywhere else. Stand by me when I am weak, pat my back when I come through, Teach me the subtle lessons that my naive mind can’t […]
You should have left me in the rain when the clouds broke, Avoided my pleading eyes and tragic lies. You should have said goodbye, before you exploded. Didn’t you see how lost I was, did you just see the love? And not how much I could hurt you? The potential for pain? You should have […]
I see only you my sweet, I hear your voice and drown out all memories of the world. I wake to live my dream. I wrap myself up in you, shutting out everybody and everything. Did I make promises to them? Did I say I loved them? I did. What did I know.. Or that […]
Untie the last knot of bonds And drop each fetter like a tear drop Breathe! You will be free If ever you were tied. Dry now like the arid land… Vast and directionless you shall be But feisty and lively like the graceful river Your soul will reach its coveted sea. Love is not a stagnant […]
Books… Who says it is bad to immerse yourself in them? They say, “Live someone else’s life? That’s rubbish. They are fictional characters.” Fictional? Then why do I feel I know them, have felt them in me? Experienced what they do? They say,“Because you want to be miserable. Life is perfect. Count your blessings.” Optimists […]
The equator it is, where I lie sprawled, stuffing myself with freshly plucked plums from the garden that lies in the other half of the planet. I must leave some for the days to come, The territory has been seized, we don’t have access to those trees anymore. The trees that we planted on Family […]