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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Nothing he did made her happy. There always was something that could be corrected, improved, tweaked, changed, worked upon. Nothing was perfect…of course, perfect was not a possibility and everybody had a different definition of perfection. But he tried. Every time. Every day. 40 years hence, she knew he would never come close to what […]
It used to irritate her. He would leave the chairs pushed too far back in, making the whole dining table symmetry skewed. He would leave the patio chairs pulled too far out. He would leave wet towels on wooden chairs.And he would also close taps too tightly. Often she would correct these things quietly. Sometimes she would […]
She grew up amid the quiet backwaters of Kerala. Born in a staunch Roman Catholic household, as the last born child, she was showered with love and affection from her siblings and parents. Her childhood though marred with difficulties, was filled with contentment. Though life was a struggle, the desire to win and work hard […]
Her helpless eyes were moist. Not from the rain. But there was nothing I could do to save her. Tears rolled down my cheeks and onto hers. It was time to part ways. I had known Radha since I was a kid. She was extremely docile and cute. We almost grew up together. She was […]
She, the immaculate Marianna Sharon Joseph could barely stand the sight of herself. She looked like something the dog had dragged in. She switched on the light to see if it made any difference… but no, she still looked like someone else… someone else who had lost a child. The thought brought on a cramp […]
It is summer and holidays are here! What do I do? Should I read a book? Or help mummy to cook? Or should I chase the butterflies That circle round the flowering nook? I think and think and think Till mummy calls out, “Radha, come here quick! “Pack your bags. It is time to visit […]
Aah, chocolate cream biscuits. In those days, they were wrapped in glossy violet packets bearing a typical image of a half-eaten biscuit with mouthwatering chocolate oozing out of it. Simply delicious! I was in 4th Standard and the shortest kid in the class. But that didn’t stop me from desperately falling in love with Ann. […]
It lay well within his grasp. A gold band twinkling defiantly at him. The diamond encrusted crown caught the sun rays as they filtered through the wooden beams of the little, suburban church and glittered like a thousand ripples on a mountain stream. The ring was brand new, from a very fine jeweller in Manhattan. […]
BREAK: When I was six, I broke a vase. It was a typical childhood mistake –a turn taken too suddenly around too sharp a corner into too fragile an object. When my parents heard the crash, they ran over to find me sitting amidst the pieces trying to put them back together. They took my […]
She was on top of the world and her heart was soaring. She was going to meet her husband after one whole year. And she remembered how it had all begun. She was 20 and nothing could stop her cup of joy from brimming over. She was in love. With a real man. A man […]
Uma Iyer has dreamt of Molu, a mischievous six-year-old for almost a decade now. She shares with the young readers of Unboxed Writers, ‘Meet Molu,’ a yet to be published first book of hopefully what would turn out to be a Molu and Tushka series. Agni, or ‘Molu’ as she is commonly referred to, is a six-year-old girl […]
It was my destiny, fate, luck or karma; call it whatever you like that brought me to Mumbai – a city which horrified me from the very beginning. A city known for almost all the wrong reasons- riots, floods, crime and the underworld. A million other atrocities plague this city which proudly calls itself ‘the […]