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 sun peeked through the Arabian Sea, Rising up in the sky As the moon hid behind the white clouds. There were people running along the shore, some with their dogs – a Dalmatian, an Alsatian, and two Afghan Hounds. Ganesh stared into the sea While standing behind his uncle Unni’s pavbhaji stall Throwing loads […]
Show me your soul.. how much of it is yours? How much borrowed? Are you more than just pieces of steel, polished to a glint? Cold and invincible? Or do you live hurt melt pulse breathe? Does you life belong to you? Are you together alone whole splintered? Are you no one else but you? […]
I wrapped it in multiple layers of amber satin. I put it inside a wooden box. The one gifted to me by my grandma. Beautiful walnut wood. Her initials on it. Then I took the box and buried it deep. As deep as I could dig. Deep till I felt it could not re-surface. But […]
I see myself as a man standing Between two buckets. A tube runs from each bucket into a vein: Input, output Both buckets contain a grayish, gleaming, translucent Substance One bucket is labeled Past and the other is labeled Future I see myself as a crow on your balcony pecking At rice stained with turmeric […]
We are all born with it A clean slate With no form, shape, or colour We write on it Rewrite Or smudge But it always wipes itself clean And welcomes a new thought Written with coloured chalk Perhaps an untold tale Perhaps the past, present, future, and everything in between And sometimes nothing Back to […]
So what makes you better than me? Is it your colour, your height, your country, your job You think you are different from the mob? Is it your university, your college, your finishing school You really think you are a lesser fool? Is it your gender, your status, your law, your moral code You think […]
Freedom is… Knowing we will all drown someday but being at peace with drowning before the next minute arrives Feeling the fear but looking it in the eye anyway Thinking you’ll never make it but taking that first step nonetheless Sensing that you’re way out of your depth but trusting the water and your body’s […]
Every artist spends a lifetime pursuing immortality through his art. Very few, however, in the face of imminent death, craft a language that is full of hope, courage and dignity. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, whose 150th birth anniversary the country celebrates this year, was one such artist who penned 15 hauntingly serene poems during the […]
It is not dice, its my life. Just can’t play autumn and scatter my little self. Who will gather me back in my bag of life? Time rushes, gushes and changes. Balm the wounds, bandage the pain. While the world thunders on, catch the silence of soul, steal a few hours from the clock and […]
Eyes full of longing Search for him in the crowd Is that him? Is that he who comes in? Is there a doubt? Of course it is him … Tall and dapper Suave and elegant… There he comes, striding towards me… Here he is… the love of my life Together we shall be …Till death do us […]
I gazed out of the window and noticed these lovely red pomegranates, so ripe, so fresh, ready to be touched, waiting to be tasted. Heavily laden hearts, red with rage, ready to burst, waiting to be shared. Sharing is a secret meditation, The business of the souls. As my hand reached out for the […]
A thought is knocking at my soul with its strong fists and mighty knuckles A thought so cruel … A thought so sweet… A thought so far…. A thought so near…. A thought that brings A smile and a tear… A thought of having … A thought of letting go of something so precious and […]