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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Akshi was in the bathroom, taking her fourth bath of the day. Ram smiled to himself over her obsession and proceeded to pick her an outfit for the evening. The deep green salwar-kameez … it’s her favourite, but the colour is all wrong for an evening out. The pink and beige one … nah, too […]
A red blur flashed around her, a grin barely visible beneath the sparkle of the jewels. Another blur, green this time, and some purple. She ran through the crowd, head whipping around rapidly, looking for one specific blur. His blur. Faces leered at her from behind vibrant masks. The bright lights did nothing to ease […]
He : Need a lift? She : Did you see me asking for it? He: You do have to be rude every time don’t you? She: Why do you bother coming back then? He : Has it ever occurred to you that I truly care? She: Has it ever occurred to you that I genuinely don’t? […]
Once upon a time, there lived an old farmer Fusao, with his wife Fuyumi, and son Daichi in a small village in Japan. Daichi loved to write. However, he feared he would not be considered as part of the family if he did not keep up with the family occupation and tradition of becoming a […]
This is no fairy tale even though I married my long time girlfriend, Moon. We had been courting for aeons, literally. People spoke about how Moon and I disappeared behind the clouds at times. News about our celestial love affair spread as far and wide as Pluto. And you know how it is – can’t stop those […]
He had first seen her long black hair and the way the sun turned it into gold. She was drying red chillies on the terrace and he flew over her, lower and then daringly still a bit lower. She looked up, and laughed at him, closing her ears to the roar of his plane. Then the children rushed out into […]
When the drumming began in the sea, it was faint at first. A hollow throbbing, that could be attributed to the defence exercises that usually happened this time of the year. So no one in the village took it seriously. It was just one more sound that added itself to the other sounds they had […]
This one’s for all the women who saw this world only through their ghoonghat. For all those women who could not step beyond their door. For all those who want to break free. For all those who just want to be… I guess it’s her birthday today. How pretty she looks when she is sleeping! […]